{"id":5204,"date":"2019-06-06T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:26:10","slug":"data-science-project-tracks-spread-of-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/data-science-project-tracks-spread-of-superbugs.php","title":{"rendered":"Data Science Project Tracks Spread of Superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ruple_Audrey_square-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Audrey Ruple\" class=\"wp-image-5205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ruple_Audrey_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ruple_Audrey_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ruple_Audrey_square-235x235.jpg 235w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ruple_Audrey_square.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Audrey Ruple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audrey Ruple,\u00a0an assistant professor of veterinary medicine, is developing a surveillance system using data science to monitor the spread of resistance and ultimately help prevent outbreaks of superbugs. Her work is being funded in part through Purdue\u2019s Integrative Data Science Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn 2017, there was a woman who came back to the United States after traveling in India who ended up dying of a bacterial infection that was completely insusceptible to any of our current antibiotics,\u201d says Ruple, who is also a member of the&nbsp;Purdue Center for Cancer Research&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease&nbsp;in Purdue\u2019s Discovery Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey Ruple,\u00a0an assistant professor of veterinary medicine, is developing a surveillance system using data science to monitor the spread of resistance and ultimately help prevent outbreaks of superbugs. Her work is being funded in part through Purdue\u2019s Integrative Data Science Initiative. \u201cIn 2017, there was a woman who came back to the United States after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33961,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/33961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}