@article{PAR00015369, title = {{C}ontemporary challenges and opportunities in the diagnosis and outbreak detection of multidrug-resistant infectious disease}, author = {{C}immino, {T}. and {L}e {P}age, {S}. and {R}aoult, {D}idier and {R}olain, {J}. {M}.}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{I}ntroduction: {T}he dissemination of multi-drug resistant bacteria ({MDRB}) has become a major public health concern worldwide because of the increase in infections caused by {MDRB}, the difficulty in treating them, and expenditures in patient care.{A}reas covered: {W}e have reviewed challenges and contemporary opportunities for rapidly confronting infections caused by {MDRB} in the 21st century, including surveillance, detection, identification of resistance mechanisms, and action steps.{E}xpert commentary: {I}n this context, the first critical point for clinical microbiologists is to be able to rapidly detect an abnormal event, an outbreak and/or the spread of a {MDRB} with surveillance tools so that healthcare policies and therapies adapted to a new stochastic event that will certainly occur again in the future can be implemented.}, keywords = {{M}ulti-drug resistant bacteria ; challenges ; epidemiological surveillance ; decreased delay of detection ; molecular biology ; point-of-care ; whole genome sequencing}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{E}xpert {R}eview of {M}olecular {D}iagnostics}, volume = {16}, numero = {11}, pages = {1163--1175}, ISSN = {1473-7159}, year = {2016}, DOI = {10.1080/14737159.2016.1244005}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00015369}, }