The Ongoing Evolution of Class 1 Integrons and the Recruitment of New Resistance and Virulence Genes into Pathogens

Funding or Partner Organisation: National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC Project Grants)

Start year: 2009

Publications:

Betteridge, T, Merlino, J, Natoli, J, Cheong, EY-L, Gottlieb, T & Stokes, HW 2013, 'Plasmids and Bacterial Strains Mediating Multidrug-Resistant Hospital-Acquired Infections Are Coresidents of the Hospital Environment', MICROBIAL DRUG RESISTANCE, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 104-109.
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Martinez, E, Pérez, JE, Márquez, C, Vilacoba, E, Centrón, D, Leal, AL, Saavedra, C, Saavedra, SY, Tovar, C, Vanegas, N & Stokes, HW 2013, 'Emerging and existing mechanisms co-operate in generating diverse β-lactam resistance phenotypes in geographically dispersed and genetically disparate Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains', Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 135-142.
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FOR Codes: Bacteriology, Infectious Diseases, Bacteriology , Clinical health

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.