Genomic insights into in-ICU emergence of last-resort antimicrobial resistance in a rare, carbapenem resistant, ST16 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain from Jodhpur, India.

Objectives: To investigate the genomic differences between two extensively drug resistant, ST16 strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae recovered from patients in the same ICU, one of which was colistin resistant.

Methods: Antimicrobial susceptibilities of the isolates were determined using VITEK-2. Hybrid assemblies for both strains were generated using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina technologies.

Noninvasive blood glucose sensing using near infra-red spectroscopy and artificial neural networks based on inverse delayed function model of neuron.

In this paper, a non-invasive blood glucose sensing system is presented using near infra-red(NIR) spectroscopy. The signal from the NIR optodes is processed using artificial neural networks (ANN) to estimate the glucose level in blood. In order to obtain accurate values of the synaptic weights of the ANN, inverse delayed (ID) function model of neuron has been used.