Services

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

• The ICMC provides services for further research and characterization of important clinical pathogens and specimens. The ICML has the capacity to perform detailed classification of antimicrobial resistant such as but not limited to: 

  • Reference broth microdilution (gold standard) antimicrobial susceptibility testing
  • Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of novel agents
  • Studies of synergies between combinations of antibiotics
  • Techniques to identify heteroresistance (looking for subpopulations with resistance)
  • Genomic characterization and analysis of antimicrobial resistance genes
  • Identifying novel mechanisms of resistance that may be acquired through antibiotic exposure

ICMC Biorepository

ICMC Biorepository contains a large collection of microbial samples, predominantly bacteria, isolated by the Emory University Hospital (EUH) microbiology laboratory as part of standard patient care. These normally discarded clinical samples and specimens are processed and stored in the ICMC biorepository and made available to investigators for the purpose of subsequent evaluation, mechanistic studies, clinical correlation, or novel assay development. A corresponding database of all phenotypic laboratory characteristics of each isolate and important patient medical data is available. The ICMC biorepository can help investigators access and store clinical isolates and specimens for future studies. In addition, the ICMC collects and save environmental samples as well as and microbiome samples from multiple sites.