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MorphoCol: An ontology-based knowledgebase for the characterisation of clinically significant bacterial colony morphologies

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Background: One of the major concerns of the biomedical community is the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistant microorganisms. Recent findings show that the diversification of colony morphology may be indicative of the expression of virulence factors and increased resistance to antibiotic therapeutics. To transform these findings, and upcoming results, into a valuable clinical decision making tool, colony morphology characterisation should be standardised. Notably, it is important to establish the minimum experimental information necessary to contextualise the environment that originated the colony morphology, and describe the main morphological features associated unambiguously.

Colony morphologyAntimicrobial resistanceVirulenceColony morphology ontology

Sousa, Ana Margarida、Olivia Pereira, Maria、Lourenco, Analia

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Univ Minho, CEB Ctr Biol Engn, Lab Invest Biofilmes Rosario Oliveira, P-4710057 Braga, Portugal

2015

Journal of biomedical informatics.

Journal of biomedical informatics.

ISSN:1532-0464
年,卷(期):2015.55
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