\item{x}{any \link{character} (vector) that can be coerced to a valid microorganism code with \code{\link[=as.mo]{as.mo()}}. Can be left blank for auto-guessing the column containing microorganism codes if used in a data set, see \emph{Examples}.}
\item{language}{language to translate text like "no growth", which defaults to the system language (see \code{\link[=get_AMR_locale]{get_AMR_locale()}})}
\item{keep_synonyms}{a \link{logical} to indicate if old, previously valid taxonomic names must be preserved and not be corrected to currently accepted names. The default is \code{FALSE}, which will return a note if old taxonomic names were processed. The default can be set with \code{options(AMR_keep_synonyms = TRUE)} or \code{options(AMR_keep_synonyms = FALSE)}.}
\item{property}{one of the column names of the \link{microorganisms} data set: "mo", "fullname", "status", "kingdom", "phylum", "class", "order", "family", "genus", "species", "subspecies", "rank", "ref", "source", "lpsn", "lpsn_parent", "lpsn_renamed_to", "gbif", "gbif_parent", "gbif_renamed_to", "prevalence" or "snomed", or must be \code{"shortname"}}
\item A \link{list} in case of \code{\link[=mo_taxonomy]{mo_taxonomy()}}, \code{\link[=mo_synonyms]{mo_synonyms()}} and \code{\link[=mo_info]{mo_info()}}
Use these functions to return a specific property of a microorganism based on the latest accepted taxonomy. All input values will be evaluated internally with \code{\link[=as.mo]{as.mo()}}, which makes it possible to use microbial abbreviations, codes and names as input. See \emph{Examples}.
All functions will, at default, keep old taxonomic properties. Please refer to this example, knowing that \emph{Escherichia blattae} was renamed to \emph{Shimwellia blattae} in 2010:
The short name - \code{\link[=mo_shortname]{mo_shortname()}} - almost always returns the first character of the genus and the full species, like \code{"E. coli"}. Exceptions are abbreviations of staphylococci (such as \emph{"CoNS"}, Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci) and beta-haemolytic streptococci (such as \emph{"GBS"}, Group B Streptococci). Please bear in mind that e.g. \emph{E. coli} could mean \emph{Escherichia coli} (kingdom of Bacteria) as well as \emph{Entamoeba coli} (kingdom of Protozoa). Returning to the full name will be done using \code{\link[=as.mo]{as.mo()}} internally, giving priority to bacteria and human pathogens, i.e. \code{"E. coli"} will be considered \emph{Escherichia coli}. In other words, \code{mo_fullname(mo_shortname("Entamoeba coli"))} returns \code{"Escherichia coli"}.
Since the top-level of the taxonomy is sometimes referred to as 'kingdom' and sometimes as 'domain', the functions \code{\link[=mo_kingdom]{mo_kingdom()}} and \code{\link[=mo_domain]{mo_domain()}} return the exact same results.
Determination of human pathogenicity (\code{\link[=mo_pathogenicity]{mo_pathogenicity()}}) is strongly based on Bartlett \emph{et al.} (2022, \doi{10.1099/mic.0.001269}). This function returns a \link{factor} with the levels \emph{Pathogenic}, \emph{Potentially pathogenic}, \emph{Non-pathogenic}, and \emph{Unknown}.
Determination of the Gram stain (\code{\link[=mo_gramstain]{mo_gramstain()}}) will be based on the taxonomic kingdom and phylum. Originally, Cavalier-Smith defined the so-called subkingdoms Negibacteria and Posibacteria (2002, \href{https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11837318/}{PMID 11837318}), and only considered these phyla as Posibacteria: Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, and Tenericutes. These phyla were renamed to Actinomycetota, Chloroflexota, Bacillota, and Mycoplasmatota (2021, \href{https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34694987/}{PMID 34694987}). Bacteria in these phyla are considered Gram-positive in this \code{AMR} package, except for members of the class Negativicutes (within phylum Bacillota) which are Gram-negative. All other bacteria are considered Gram-negative. Species outside the kingdom of Bacteria will return a value \code{NA}. Functions \code{\link[=mo_is_gram_negative]{mo_is_gram_negative()}} and \code{\link[=mo_is_gram_positive]{mo_is_gram_positive()}} always return \code{TRUE} or \code{FALSE} (or \code{NA} when the input is \code{NA} or the MO code is \code{UNKNOWN}), thus always return \code{FALSE} for species outside the taxonomic kingdom of Bacteria.
Determination of yeasts (\code{\link[=mo_is_yeast]{mo_is_yeast()}}) will be based on the taxonomic kingdom and class. \emph{Budding yeasts} are fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, class Saccharomycetes (also called Hemiascomycetes). \emph{True yeasts} are aggregated into the underlying order Saccharomycetales. Thus, for all microorganisms that are member of the taxonomic class Saccharomycetes, the function will return \code{TRUE}. It returns \code{FALSE} otherwise (or \code{NA} when the input is \code{NA} or the MO code is \code{UNKNOWN}).
Determination of intrinsic resistance (\code{\link[=mo_is_intrinsic_resistant]{mo_is_intrinsic_resistant()}}) will be based on the \link{intrinsic_resistant} data set, which is based on \href{https://www.eucast.org/expert_rules_and_expected_phenotypes/}{'EUCAST Expert Rules' and 'EUCAST Intrinsic Resistance and Unusual Phenotypes' v3.3} (2021). The \code{\link[=mo_is_intrinsic_resistant]{mo_is_intrinsic_resistant()}} function can be vectorised over both argument \code{x} (input for microorganisms) and \code{ab} (input for antibiotics).
The function \code{\link[=mo_url]{mo_url()}} will return the direct URL to the online database entry, which also shows the scientific reference of the concerned species.
SNOMED codes (\code{\link[=mo_snomed]{mo_snomed()}}) are from the version of 1 July, 2021. See \emph{Source} and the \link{microorganisms} data set for more info.
Old taxonomic names (so-called 'synonyms') can be retrieved with \code{\link[=mo_synonyms]{mo_synonyms()}}, the current taxonomic name can be retrieved with \code{\link[=mo_current]{mo_current()}}. Both functions return full names.
With ambiguous user input in \code{\link[=as.mo]{as.mo()}} and all the \code{\link[=mo_property]{mo_*}} functions, the returned results are chosen based on their matching score using \code{\link[=mo_matching_score]{mo_matching_score()}}. This matching score \eqn{m}, is calculated as:
\item \ifelse{html}{\out{<i>x</i> is the user input;}}{\eqn{x} is the user input;}
\item \ifelse{html}{\out{<i>n</i> is a taxonomic name (genus, species, and subspecies);}}{\eqn{n} is a taxonomic name (genus, species, and subspecies);}
\item \ifelse{html}{\out{<i>l<sub>n</sub></i> is the length of <i>n</i>;}}{l_n is the length of \eqn{n};}
\item \ifelse{html}{\out{<i>lev</i> is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance">Levenshtein distance function</a> (counting any insertion as 1, and any deletion or substitution as 2) that is needed to change <i>x</i> into <i>n</i>;}}{lev is the Levenshtein distance function (counting any insertion as 1, and any deletion or substitution as 2) that is needed to change \eqn{x} into \eqn{n};}
\item \ifelse{html}{\out{<i>p<sub>n</sub></i> is the human pathogenic prevalence group of <i>n</i>, as described below;}}{p_n is the human pathogenic prevalence group of \eqn{n}, as described below;}
\item \ifelse{html}{\out{<i>k<sub>n</sub></i> is the taxonomic kingdom of <i>n</i>, set as Bacteria = 1, Fungi = 2, Protozoa = 3, Archaea = 4, others = 5.}}{l_n is the taxonomic kingdom of \eqn{n}, set as Bacteria = 1, Fungi = 2, Protozoa = 3, Archaea = 4, others = 5.}
The grouping into human pathogenic prevalence (\eqn{p}) is based on recent work from Bartlett \emph{et al.} (2022, \doi{10.1099/mic.0.001269}) who extensively studied medical-scientific literature to categorise all bacterial species into these groups:
\item \strong{Established}, if a taxonomic species has infected at least three persons in three or more references. These records have \code{prevalence = 1.0} in the \link{microorganisms} data set;
\item \strong{Putative}, if a taxonomic species has fewer than three known cases. These records have \code{prevalence = 1.25} in the \link{microorganisms} data set.
\item Any genus present in the \strong{established} list also has \code{prevalence = 1.0} in the \link{microorganisms} data set;
\item Any other genus present in the \strong{putative} list has \code{prevalence = 1.25} in the \link{microorganisms} data set;
\item Any other species or subspecies of which the genus is present in the two aforementioned groups, has \code{prevalence = 1.5} in the \link{microorganisms} data set;
\item Any \emph{non-bacterial} genus, species or subspecies of which the genus is present in the following list, has \code{prevalence = 1.5} in the \link{microorganisms} data set: \emph{Absidia}, \emph{Acanthamoeba}, \emph{Acremonium}, \emph{Aedes}, \emph{Alternaria}, \emph{Amoeba}, \emph{Ancylostoma}, \emph{Angiostrongylus}, \emph{Anisakis}, \emph{Anopheles}, \emph{Apophysomyces}, \emph{Aspergillus}, \emph{Aureobasidium}, \emph{Basidiobolus}, \emph{Beauveria}, \emph{Blastocystis}, \emph{Blastomyces}, \emph{Candida}, \emph{Capillaria}, \emph{Chaetomium}, \emph{Chrysonilia}, \emph{Cladophialophora}, \emph{Cladosporium}, \emph{Conidiobolus}, \emph{Contracaecum}, \emph{Cordylobia}, \emph{Cryptococcus}, \emph{Curvularia}, \emph{Demodex}, \emph{Dermatobia}, \emph{Dientamoeba}, \emph{Diphyllobothrium}, \emph{Dirofilaria}, \emph{Echinostoma}, \emph{Entamoeba}, \emph{Enterobius}, \emph{Exophiala}, \emph{Exserohilum}, \emph{Fasciola}, \emph{Fonsecaea}, \emph{Fusarium}, \emph{Giardia}, \emph{Haloarcula}, \emph{Halobacterium}, \emph{Halococcus}, \emph{Hendersonula}, \emph{Heterophyes}, \emph{Histomonas}, \emph{Histoplasma}, \emph{Hymenolepis}, \emph{Hypomyces}, \emph{Hysterothylacium}, \emph{Leishmania}, \emph{Malassezia}, \emph{Malbranchea}, \emph{Metagonimus}, \emph{Meyerozyma}, \emph{Microsporidium}, \emph{Microsporum}, \emph{Mortierella}, \emph{Mucor}, \emph{Mycocentrospora}, \emph{Necator}, \emph{Nectria}, \emph{Ochroconis}, \emph{Oesophagostomum}, \emph{Oidiodendron}, \emph{Opisthorchis}, \emph{Pediculus}, \emph{Phlebotomus}, \emph{Phoma}, \emph{Pichia}, \emph{Piedraia}, \emph{Pithomyces}, \emph{Pityrosporum}, \emph{Pneumocystis}, \emph{Pseudallescheria}, \emph{Pseudoterranova}, \emph{Pulex}, \emph{Rhizomucor}, \emph{Rhizopus}, \emph{Rhodotorula}, \emph{Saccharomyces}, \emph{Sarcoptes}, \emph{Scolecobasidium}, \emph{Scopulariopsis}, \emph{Scytalidium}, \emph{Spirometra}, \emph{Sporobolomyces}, \emph{Stachybotrys}, \emph{Strongyloides}, \emph{Syngamus}, \emph{Taenia}, \emph{Toxocara}, \emph{Trichinella}, \emph{Trichobilharzia}, \emph{Trichoderma}, \emph{Trichomonas}, \emph{Trichophyton}, \emph{Trichosporon}, \emph{Trichostrongylus}, \emph{Trichuris}, \emph{Tritirachium}, \emph{Trombicula}, \emph{Trypanosoma}, \emph{Tunga} or \emph{Wuchereria};
\item All other records have \code{prevalence = 2.0} in the \link{microorganisms} data set.
All matches are sorted descending on their matching score and for all user input values, the top match will be returned. This will lead to the effect that e.g., \code{"E. coli"} will return the microbial ID of \emph{Escherichia coli} (\eqn{m = 0.688}, a highly prevalent microorganism found in humans) and not \emph{Entamoeba coli} (\eqn{m = 0.159}, a less prevalent microorganism in humans), although the latter would alphabetically come first.
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All data sets in this \code{AMR} package (about microorganisms, antibiotics, R/SI interpretation, EUCAST rules, etc.) are publicly and freely available for download in the following formats: R, MS Excel, Apache Feather, Apache Parquet, SPSS, SAS, and Stata. We also provide tab-separated plain text files that are machine-readable and suitable for input in any software program, such as laboratory information systems. Please visit \href{https://msberends.github.io/AMR/articles/datasets.html}{our website for the download links}. The actual files are of course available on \href{https://github.com/msberends/AMR/tree/main/data-raw}{our GitHub repository}.
