The mechanism of conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in Gram positive pathogens

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1048676

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a serious threat to the health of Australians. We will determine how antibiotic resistance genes spread from one bacterium to another. Using a disease-causing bacterium as model we will determine the mechanism by which this gene transfer process occurs and the structure and function of the key components. The result will be major advances in our understanding of the evolution of the antibiotic resistant bacteria that are major causes of human disease.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $628,459.00

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

Clostridium perfringens | antibiotic resistance | crystallography | gene transfer | plasmids | protein-protein interaction

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