scholarly journals Transmisión del problema de la resistencia a los antibióticos a dos niveles educativos en el contexto del proyecto SWImicromundo: evaluación por Socrative

Author(s):  
Julio Sempere García ◽  
Ana Zorrilla Navarrete ◽  
Covadonga Vázquez Estévez

Resumen En el marco del proyecto Small World Iniciative/MicroMundo (SWI-MicroMundo), basado en el aprendizaje-servicio, un grupo de estudiantes de bachillerato de excelencia dirigidos por un grupo de estudiantes universitarios bajo la supervisión de profesores, ha analizado diferentes muestras de suelo, aislado microorganismos con el fin de observar la diversidad microbiana, realizado ensayos de antibiosis para finalmente aislar nuevas bacterias potencialmente productoras de compuestos antimicrobianos. En este contexto, la UCM proporciona la oportunidad a estos dos niveles educativos de conocer un problema científica y socialmente relevante, implicar a los estudiantes y por supuesto, adquirir o afianzar los conocimientos científicos vinculados al problema objeto de estudio. Los integrantes del estudio se forman enfrentándose a un problema relevante a nivel mundial a través de un aprendizaje activo. Según el Plan Nacional de Resistencia a Antibióticos, se establece como uno de los objetivos priorizados la comunicación y sensibilización de la sociedad sobre la problemática de la resistencia a los antibióticos y el buen uso de estos. Se trata de aprender y al mismo tiempo, comprometerse a hacer un servicio a la comunidad a través de la comunicación de la experiencia con sus compañeros, a su entorno social y familiar. Con el fin de evaluar los conocimientos adquiridos, se utilizó la plataforma online conocida como Socrative y utilizada a través de ordenador portátil, tablet o Smartphone con conexión a internet Este sencillo método ha permitido evaluar el grado de implicación y los conocimientos alcanzados sobre la resistencia a antibióticos y las habilidades prácticas del grupo participante en el proyecto frente a otros grupos de bachillerato con diferente formación y que no han participado en la experiencia. Abstract In the context of the Small World Initiative/TinyEarth (SWI-TinyEarth) project, based on crowdsourcing, students from the Excellence high school group, supervised by university students under the tutelage of a university teacher, analyze soil samples and isolate microorganism. The purpose was to assess the microbial diversity, to acknowledge the problem about antibiotic resistance and to obtain new potential antimicrobial-producer bacteria. The Complutense University of Madrid provides the opportunity to the students to work with a real problem and to secure their scientific skills related to the project. The students also acquire tools and knowledge working with antibiotic resistance. The Antibiotic Resistance National Plan establish as a priority objective the communication and awareness of the society about the problematic, and the good use of antibiotics. It is important to communicate the students, so they can perform a social duty and inform their families and friends. To evaluate the knowledgeacquire through the experience, we applied the online tool Socrative which can be used via laptop, tablet or smartphone. This method let us evaluate the degree of involvement of the students and their antibiotic knowledge versus other high school groups.

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Li ◽  
Zeng Chen ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Yongqin Liu ◽  
Tao Yan

ABSTRACT Widespread occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has become an important clinical issue. Studying ARGs in pristine soil environments can help to better understand the intrinsic soil resistome. In this study, 10 soil samples were collected from a high elevation and relatively pristine Tibetan area, and metagenomic sequencing and bioinformatic analyses were conducted to investigate the microbial diversity, the abundance and diversity of ARGs and the mobility potential of ARGs as indicated by different mobile genetic elements (MGEs). A total of 48 ARG types with a relative abundance of 0.05–0.28 copies of ARG/copy of 16S rRNA genes were detected in Tibetan soil samples. The observed ARGs were mainly associated with antibiotics that included glycopeptide and rifamycin; the most abundant ARGs were vanRO and vanSO. Low abundance of MGEs and potentially plasmid-related ARGs indicated a low horizontal gene transfer risk of ARGs in the pristine soil. Pearson correlation and redundancy analyses showed that temperature and total organic carbon were the major environmental factors controlling both microbial diversity and ARG abundance and diversity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (13) ◽  
pp. 6891
Author(s):  
João S. Rebelo ◽  
Célia P. F. Domingues ◽  
Francisco Dionisio ◽  
Manuel C. Gomes ◽  
Ana Botelho ◽  
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Recently, much attention has been paid to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet bacterial resistance to antibiotics remains a serious and unresolved public health problem that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually, being an insidious and silent pandemic. To contain the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, populations confined and tightened hygiene measures. We performed this study with computer simulations and by using mobility data of mobile phones from Google in the region of Lisbon, Portugal, comprising 3.7 million people during two different lockdown periods, scenarios of 40 and 60% mobility reduction. In the simulations, we assumed that the network of physical contact between people is that of a small world and computed the antibiotic resistance in human microbiomes after 180 days in the simulation. Our simulations show that reducing human contacts drives a reduction in the diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in human microbiomes. Kruskal–Wallis and Dunn’s pairwise tests show very strong evidence (p < 0.000, adjusted using the Bonferroni correction) of a difference between the four confinement regimes. The proportion of variability in the ranked dependent variable accounted for by the confinement variable was η2 = 0.148, indicating a large effect of confinement on the diversity of antibiotic resistance. We have shown that confinement and hygienic measures, in addition to reducing the spread of pathogenic bacteria in a human network, also reduce resistance and the need to use antibiotics.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Arturovna Semenova ◽  
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Yulia Konstantinovna Yushina ◽  
Maria Alexandrovna Grudistova ◽  
Elena Viktorovna Zaiko ◽  
...  

The article discusses the results of a study of the microbial diversity of objects in the production environment of two meat processing enterprises, including antibiotic resistance, isolated strains of pathogenic microorganisms and their ability to biofilm formation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Zh. Abdieva ◽  
P. S. Ualieva ◽  
А. М. Мalik ◽  
N. S. Akimbekov ◽  
А. N. Eshmukhanbet ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (48) ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
K.T. Tastambek ◽  
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N.Sh. Akimbekov ◽  
A.K. Yernazarova ◽  
G.K. Kayyrmanova ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
David Arboledas

Students who are studying their last year at High School face the problem of deciding their professional future. It is evident that the society in which we live will demand more and more qualified and specialized positions in the different branches of engineering.The aim of this paper is to explain how we solved a real problem - ensuring the confidentiality of information - with the knowledge acquired by students during their two years studying information and communication technologies (ICT).Three brilliant students were voluntarily provided with the mentoring service in which the algorithm was designed. As a result, we could design a symmetrical character-level encryption algorithm in the classroom as a final project that we named Azrael.Unfortunately, we did not have any scholarships or funding to do the extra work we had to do, only the personal satisfaction of seeing how the different skills were successfully applied to solve a real problem.


2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 2484-2494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W Knapp ◽  
Anna C Callan ◽  
Beatrice Aitken ◽  
Rylan Shearn ◽  
Annette Koenders ◽  
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