Glen Carter

Genomic insights into vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

G Carter

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Clinical Relevance of Topical Antibiotic Use in Coselecting for Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Insights from In Vitro and Ex Vivo Models

Yi Nong, George Taiaroa, Shivani Pasricha, Romain Guerillot, Ian R Monk, Sarah L Baines, Glen P Carter, Benjamin P Howden, Deborah A Williamson

Journal article  |  2021  |  ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Topical antibiotic preparations, such as fusidic acid (FA) or mupirocin, are used in the prevention and treatment of superficial s..

Diarrhea in an infant due to Shigella flexneri 1 carrying multiple cephalosporinase-encoding genes

M John Albert, Prashant Purohit, Laurent Poirel, Glen Carter, Dieter Bulach

Journal article  |  2021  |  GUT PATHOGENS

BACKGROUND: Infections caused by multidrug-resistant shigellae resistant to broad-spectrum cephalosporins are becoming more preval..

Genomic Insights Into Last-Line Antimicrobial Resistance in Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus

Adrianna M Turner, Jean YH Lee, Claire L Gorrie, Benjamin P Howden, Glen P Carter

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) are important human pathogens that are resistant to..

Structure-Activity Relationships of Daptomycin Lipopeptides

John A Karas, Glen P Carter, Benjamin P Howden, Adrianna M Turner, Olivia KA Paulin, James D Swarbrick, Mark A Baker, Jian Li, Tony Velkov

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Daptomycin is a calcium-dependent cyclic lipodepsipeptide derived from the soil saprotroph Streptomyces roseosporus, and its antib..

Complete microbial genomes for public health in Australia and the Southwest Pacific

Sarah L Baines, Anders Goncalves da Silva, Glen P Carter, Amy Jennison, Irani Rathnayake, Rikki M Graham, Vitali Sintchenko, Qinning Wang, Rebecca J Rockett, Verlaine J Timms, Elena Martinez, Susan Ballard, Takehiro Tomita, Nicole Isles, Kristy A Horan, William Pitchers, Timothy P Stinear, Deborah A Williamson, Benjamin P Howden, Torsten Seemann

Journal article  |  2020  |  MICROBIAL GENOMICS

Complete genomes of microbial pathogens are essential for the phylogenomic analyses that increasingly underpin core public health ..

Microbe-Metabolite Associations Linked to the Rebounding Murine Gut Microbiome Postcolonization with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

Andre Mu, Glen P Carter, Lucy Li, Nicole S Isles, Alison F Vrbanac, James T Morton, Alan K Jarmusch, David P De Souza, Vinod K Narayana, Komal Kanojia, Brunda Nijagal, Malcolm J McConville, Rob Knight, Benjamin P Howden, Timothy P Stinear

Journal article  |  2020  |  MSYSTEMS

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is an emerging antibiotic-resistant pathogen. Strain-level investigations are be..

Biphasic Outbreak of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Disease in Eldercare Facility, New Zealand

Kate A Worthing, Anja Werno, Ramon Pink, Liam McIntyre, Glen P Carter, Deborah A Williamson, Mark R Davies

Journal article  |  2020  |  EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

A 3-month outbreak of invasive group A Streptococcus disease at an eldercare facility, in which 5 persons died, was biphasic. Alth..

Gut microbiome of native Arab Kuwaitis

Erica Plummer, Dieter Bulach, Glen Carter, M John Albert

Journal article  |  2020  |  GUT PATHOGENS

Background: The human gut microbiome has an important role in health and disease. There is extensive geographical variation in the..

Genomic Analysis of Fluoroquinolone- and Tetracycline-Resistant Campylobacter jejuni Sequence Type 6964 in Humans and Poultry, New Zealand, 2014-2016

Nigel P French, Ji Zhang, Glen P Carter, Anne C Midwinter, Patrick J Biggs, Kristin Dyet, Brent J Gilpin, Danielle J Ingle, Kerry Mulqueen, Lynn E Rogers, David A Wilkinson, Sabrina S Greening, Petra Muellner, Ahmed Fayaz, Deborah A Williamson

Journal article  |  2019  |  EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

In 2014, antimicrobial drug-resistant Campylobacter jejuni sequence type 6964 emerged contemporaneously in poultry from 3 supply c..