AMR

This is an R package to simplify the analysis and prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

This R package was created for academic research by PhD students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Groningen (rug.nl) and the Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention department of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG, umcg.nl). They also maintain this package, see Authors.

Why this package?

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).

With AMR you can also apply EUCAST rules to isolates, identify first isolates of every patient, translate antibiotic codes from the lab (like "AMOX") or the WHO (like "J01CA04") to trivial names (like "amoxicillin"), or predict antimicrobial resistance for the nextcoming years with the rsi_predict function.

For regular AMR analysis, the rsi function can be used. This function als works with the dplyr package (e.g. in conjunction with summarise) to calculate the resistance percentages of different antibiotic columns of a table.

This package contains an example data set septic_patients, consisting of 2000 isolates from anonymised septic patients between 2001 and 2017.

How to get it?

This package is available on CRAN and also here on GitHub.

From CRAN (recommended)

• In RStudio (recommended):

  • Click on Tools and then Install Packages...
  • Type in AMR and press Install

• In R directly:

  • install.packages("AMR")

• In Exploratory.io:

  • (Exploratory.io costs $40/month but is free for students and teachers; if you have an @umcg.nl or @rug.nl email address, click here to enroll)
  • Start the software and log in
  • Click on your username at the right hand side top
  • Click on R Packages
  • Click on the Install tab
  • Type in AMR and press Install
  • Once it’s installed it will show up in the User Packages section under the Packages tab.

From GitHub (latest development version)

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("msberends/AMR")

How to use it?

# Call it with:
library(AMR)

# For a list of functions:
help(package = "AMR")

Overwrite/force resistance based on EUCAST rules

This is also called interpretive reading.

before <- data.frame(bactid = c("STAAUR",  # Staphylococcus aureus
                                "ENCFAE",  # Enterococcus faecalis
                                "ESCCOL",  # Escherichia coli
                                "KLEPNE",  # Klebsiella pneumoniae
                                "PSEAER"), # Pseudomonas aeruginosa
                     vanc = "-",           # Vancomycin
                     amox = "-",           # Amoxicillin
                     coli = "-",           # Colistin
                     cfta = "-",           # Ceftazidime
                     cfur = "-",           # Cefuroxime
                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
before
#   bactid vanc amox coli cfta cfur
# 1 STAAUR    -    -    -    -    -
# 2 ENCFAE    -    -    -    -    -
# 3 ESCCOL    -    -    -    -    -
# 4 KLEPNE    -    -    -    -    -
# 5 PSEAER    -    -    -    -    -

# Now apply those rules; just need a column with bacteria ID's and antibiotic results:
after <- EUCAST_rules(before)
after
#   bactid vanc amox coli cfta cfur
# 1 STAAUR    -    -    R    R    -
# 2 ENCFAE    -    -    R    R    R
# 3 ESCCOL    R    -    -    -    -
# 4 KLEPNE    R    R    -    -    -
# 5 PSEAER    R    R    -    -    R

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.

# Transform values to new classes
mic_data <- as.mic(c(">=32", "1.0", "8", "<=0.128", "8", "16", "16"))
rsi_data <- as.rsi(c(rep("S", 474), rep("I", 36), rep("R", 370)))

These functions also try to coerce valid values.

Quick overviews when just printing objects:

mic_data
# Class 'mic': 7 isolates
# 
# <NA>  0
# 
# <=0.128       1       8      16    >=32
#       1       1       2       2       1

rsi_data
# Class 'rsi': 880 isolates
# 
# <NA>:       0 
# Sum of S:   474 
# Sum of IR:  406 
# - Sum of R: 370 
# - Sum of I: 36 
# 
#   %S  %IR   %I   %R 
# 53.9 46.1  4.1 42.0 

A plot of rsi_data:

plot(rsi_data)

A plot of mic_data (defaults to bar plot):

plot(mic_data)

Other epidemiological functions:

# Determine key antibiotic based on bacteria ID
key_antibiotics(...)

# Selection of first isolates of any patient
first_isolate(...)

# Calculate resistance levels of antibiotics, can be used with `summarise` (dplyr)
rsi(...)
# Predict resistance levels of antibiotics
rsi_predict(...)

# Get name of antibiotic by ATC code
abname(...)
abname("J01CR02", from = "atc", to = "umcg") # "AMCL"

Databases included in package

Datasets to work with antibiotics and bacteria properties.

# Dataset with ATC antibiotics codes, official names and DDD's (oral and parenteral)
ablist        # A tibble: 420 x 12

# Dataset with bacteria codes and properties like gram stain and aerobic/anaerobic
bactlist      # A tibble: 2,507 x 10

Authors

• Berends MS^1,2, PhD Student
• Luz CF¹, PhD Student
• Hassing EEA², Data Analyst (contributor)

¹ Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

² Department of Medical, Market and Innovation (MMI), Certe Medische diagnostiek & advies, Groningen, the Netherlands

Copyright

This R package is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2.0. In a nutshell, this means that this package:

• May be used for commercial purposes

• May be used for private purposes

• May be modified, although:

  • Modifications must be released under the same license when distributing the package
  • Changes made to the code must be documented

• May be distributed, although:

  • Source code must be made available when the package is distributed
  • A copy of the license and copyright notice must be included with the package.

• Comes with a LIMITATION of liability

• Comes with NO warranty