Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for rapid detection of antibiotic resistance of a microorganism in a sample. A modified recombinant phage is also disclosed which comprises an indicator gene in the late gene region. The specificity of infectious agents allows a specific microorganism to be targeted, and an indicator signal may be amplified to optimize assay sensitivity.

Abstract: A cellular communication system (100) comprises a service evaluation server (117) for performing service characteristic evaluation. The server (117) comprises a profile store (201) which stores different service characteristic profiles for a plurality of remote stations. Each service characteristic may correspond to a service level agreement. A measurement operation processor (203) determines a set of measurement operations for a first remote station (101) in response to a first service characteristic profile for the first remote station (101). A measurement command processor (205) then determines a set of measurement commands corresponding to the measurement operations and a network transmit processor (207) transmits the set of measurement commands to the first remote station (101). The first remote station (101) decodes the commands, performs the measurement operations and transmits the resulting measurement data to the server (117).