### An [R package](https://www.r-project.org) to simplify the analysis and prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and work with antibiotic properties by using evidence-based methods.
This R package was created for academic research by PhD students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the [University of Groningen](https://www.rug.nl) and the Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention (MMBI) department of the [University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)](https://www.umcg.nl).
This R package contains functions to make **microbiological, epidemiological data analysis easier**. It allows the use of some new classes to work with MIC values and antimicrobial interpretations (i.e. values S, I and R).
* Calculate the resistance (and even co-resistance) of microbial isolates with the `resistance` and `susceptibility` functions, that can also be used with the `dplyr` package (e.g. in conjunction with `summarise`)
* Apply [EUCAST rules to isolates](http://www.eucast.org/expert_rules_and_intrinsic_resistance/) with the `EUCAST_rules` function
* Identify first isolates of every patient [using guidelines from the CLSI](https://clsi.org/standards/products/microbiology/documents/m39/) (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute) with the `first_isolate` function
* You can also identify first *weighted* isolates of every patient, an adjusted version of the CLSI guideline. This takes into account key antibiotics of every strain and compares them. The following 12 antibiotics will be used as key antibiotics at default:
* Get antimicrobial ATC properties from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology ([WHOCC](https://www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_methodology/who_collaborating_centre/)), to be able to:
* Translate antibiotic codes (like *AMOX*), official names (like *amoxicillin*) and even trade names (like *Amoxil* or *Trimox*) to an [ATC code](https://www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_index/?code=J01CA04&showdescription=no) (like *J01CA04*) and vice versa with the `abname` function
* Get the latest antibiotic properties like hierarchic groups and [defined daily dose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defined_daily_dose) (DDD) with units and administration form from the WHOCC website with the `atc_property` function
* A recent data set with ~2500 human pathogenic microorganisms, including family, genus, species, gram stain and aerobic/anaerobic
* A recent data set with all antibiotics as defined by the [WHOCC](https://www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_methodology/who_collaborating_centre/), including ATC code, official name and DDD's
* An example data set `septic_patients`, consisting of 2000 blood culture isolates from anonymised septic patients between 2001 and 2017.
With the `MDRO` function (abbreviation of Multi Drug Resistant Organisms), you can check your isolates for exceptional resistance with country-specific guidelines or EUCAST rules. Currently guidelines for Germany and the Netherlands are supported. Please suggest addition of your own country here: [https://github.com/msberends/AMR/issues/new](https://github.com/msberends/AMR/issues/new?title=New%20guideline%20for%20MDRO&body=%3C--%20Please%20add%20your%20country%20code,%20guideline%20name,%20version%20and%20source%20below%20and%20remove%20this%20line--%3E).
The functions to calculate microbial resistance use expressions that are not evaluated by R itself, but by alternative C++ code that is 25 to 30 times faster and uses less memory. This is called *hybrid evaluation*.
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Bacteria ID's can be retrieved with the `as.bactid` function. It uses any type of info about a microorganism as input. For example, all these will return value `STAAUR`, the ID of *S. aureus*:
```r
as.bactid("stau")
as.bactid("STAU")
as.bactid("staaur")
as.bactid("S. aureus")
as.bactid("S aureus")
as.bactid("Staphylococcus aureus")
as.bactid("MRSA") # Methicillin Resistant S. aureus
as.bactid("VISA") # Vancomycin Intermediate S. aureus
as.bactid("VRSA") # Vancomycin Resistant S. aureus
```
### New classes
This package contains two new S3 classes: `mic` for MIC values (e.g. from Vitek or Phoenix) and `rsi` for antimicrobial drug interpretations (i.e. S, I and R). Both are actually ordered factors under the hood (an MIC of `2` being higher than `<=1` but lower than `>=32`, and for class `rsi` factors are ordered as `S < I < R`).
Both classes have extensions for existing generic functions like `print`, `summary` and `plot`.
Base R lacks a simple function to create frequency tables. We created such a function that works with almost all data types: `freq` (or `frequency_tbl`). It can be used in two ways:
This R package is licensed under the [GNU General Public License (GPL) v2.0](https://github.com/msberends/AMR/blob/master/LICENSE). In a nutshell, this means that this package:
