Phage therapy is a promising alternative to antibiotics to treat multidrug resistant infections. Plasmid dependent phages (PDPs) are particularly attractive as therapeutics because they can both kill ...

Gene-editing technique disables Shiga toxin genes in <i>E. coli</i>

To take a lead role in the development and delivery of an MRC funded UK-China research network on antimicrobial resistance epidemiology

Professor Jessica Blair

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PhD Project - How do interactions in the microbiome shape the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens? at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com

Academic conference held in Tokyo, Japan 2024

In this Review, Shepherd, Brockhurst and colleagues explore the clinical evidence in support of four major ecological and evolutionary mechanisms of within-patient antimicrobial resistance emergence i...

Multi-layered bacterial genome defences: linking molecular mechanisms to bacteria-MGE conflicts in single cells, populations, and communities. Resistance to antibiotics (known as antimicrobial resista...

Bacterial capsules provide protection against the environment, including host immune systems. Authors swap capsule loci in Klebsiella pneumoniae to reveal the role of these sugar coats against plasmid...

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