Microevolution and transmission of MRSA in a hospital setting

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1010452

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cause hospital-acquired infections and are responsible for unnecessary illness and excess health costs. It is hard to identify how different strains spread and which are most likely to cause disease, without a rapid, simple fingerprinting system. We have developed one, which we will use to identify the most _successful� MRSA strains. Then we will sequence their whole genomes, to determine why they are _successful� to devise ways to combat them.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $623,300.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Clinical Microbiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Staphylococcus aureus | antibiotic resistance | early diagnosis | infection control | molecular diagnostics | molecular epidemiology | nosocomial infections

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