Wastewater flushes out superbugs

Wastewater flushes out superbugs

While most of us just flush and forget, what goes down our toilets and drains could be key to stopping a looming health and financial crisis in Australia from antibiotic resistant bacteria. If we identify which communities have the greatest prevalence of...
Dealing with the data challenges

Dealing with the data challenges

The OUTBREAK platform takes a world-leading AI approach to predicting the threat of an antibiotic resistant infection. Cloud and Data Management Lead Denis Bauer explains the novel approach to gathering and analysing data from humans, animals and the...
Can AI help fight antibiotic-resistant superbugs?

Can AI help fight antibiotic-resistant superbugs?

This article was originally published on the CSIRO blog. Antibiotics. They’ve been our go-to for treating (and sometimes preventing) bacterial infections ever since Alexander Fleming found mould keeping bacteria in check in his petri dishes almost a century ago and...