EMBARK - Establishing a Monitoring Baseline for Antimicrobial Resistance in Key environments

In this project, we establish baseline ranges for background antibiotic resistance abundances and diversity in different environments, standardize different methods for monitoring antibiotic resistance in the environment, identify sets of priority targets for environmental antibiotic resistance monitoring, and develop methods to detect novel resistance threats to develop an early-warning system for emerging forms of resistance. The end goal of the project is a monitoring scheme that can be used in a modular fashion depending on the available resources. Establishing a coherent monitoring scheme is imperative for efficient monitoring, which in turn is essential to limit resistance development in the future.