Genomic approaches to understand and control the emergence of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) in Australia.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1027874

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

VRE is a serious hospital superbug that has been increasing in many major hospitals around Australia, while at the same time MRSA (Golden Staph) infections have been decreasing. This project will find out why VRE is increasing by examining what happens to patients at a major Australian hospital from their time of admission to the onset of infection with VRE. At the end of the project we will have the first real understanding of how VRE is transmitted so we can develop effective infection control measures.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $756,163.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Bacteriology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

antibiotic resistance | bacteria | genomics | molecular epidemiology | nosocomial infections | transmission

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