New software could aid the impact of antibiotic in people

Scientists have developed a new weapon in the battle to safeguard the effectiveness of antibiotics. 

A computer programme has been designed which can quickly analyse bacterial DNA from a patient’s infection and predict which antibiotics will work, and which will fail because of drug resistance.

The software is having trials in three British hospitals to see whether it could help speed up diagnosis of drug-resistant infections and enable doctors to better target the prescription of antibiotics.