Understanding How Staphylococci Respond to Antibiotics

Grant number: 1026656 | Funding period: 2012 - 2015

Completed

Abstract

Golden Staph is a major problem in Australian hospitals. This project will use cutting edge technology to investigate how Golden Staph responds to and resists antibiotics used to treat human infections, leading to new strategies for the prevention and treatment of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

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Microbe-metabolite associations linked to the rebounding murine gut microbiome postcolonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium

A Mu, GP Carter, L Li, NS Isles, AF Vrbanac, JT Morton, AK Jarmusch, DP de Souza, VK Narayana, K Kanojia, B Nijagal, MJ McConville, R Knight, BP Howden, TP Stinear

2020-08-01

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

Comparative Transcriptomic and Functional Assessments of Linezolid-Responsive Small RNA Genes in Staphylococcus aureus

W Gao, R Guérillot, YH Lin, J Tree, M Beaume, P François, IR Monk, T Seemann, J Schrenzel, BP Howden, TP Stinear

2020-01-01

Staphylococcus aureus contains a repertoire of at least 50 and possibly 500 small RNAs (sRNAs). The functions of most sRNAs are no..

University of Melbourne Researchers

Ben Howden

Tim Stinear

Torsten Seemann