The AMR Package

Welcome to the AMR package.

Details

AMR is a free and open-source R package to simplify the analysis and prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and to work with microbial and antimicrobial properties by using evidence-based methods. It supports any table format, including WHONET/EARS-Net data.

We created this package for both academic research and routine analysis at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Groningen and the Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention (MMBI) department of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). This R package is actively maintained and free software; you can freely use and distribute it for both personal and commercial (but not patent) purposes under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2), as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This package can be used for:

  • Reference for the taxonomy of microorganisms, since the package contains all microbial (sub)species from the Catalogue of Life

  • Interpreting raw MIC and disk diffusion values, based on the latest CLSI or EUCAST guidelines

  • Determining first isolates to be used for AMR analysis

  • Calculating antimicrobial resistance

  • Determining multi-drug resistance (MDR) / multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO)

  • Calculating (empirical) susceptibility of both mono therapy and combination therapies

  • Predicting future antimicrobial resistance using regression models

  • Getting properties for any microorganism (like Gram stain, species, genus or family)

  • Getting properties for any antibiotic (like name, EARS-Net code, ATC code, PubChem code, defined daily dose or trade name)

  • Plotting antimicrobial resistance

  • Applying EUCAST expert rules

Read more on our website!

On our website https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR you can find a tutorial about how to conduct AMR analysis, the complete documentation of all functions (which reads a lot easier than here in R) and an example analysis using WHONET data.

Contact us

For suggestions, comments or questions, please contact us at:

Matthijs S. Berends
m.s.berends at umcg dot nl
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen
University Medical Center Groningen
Post Office Box 30001
9700 RB Groningen
The Netherlands

If you have found a bug, please file a new issue at:
https://gitlab.com/msberends/AMR/issues