Horizontal and vertical transmission mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus multiresistance plasmids

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1081412

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Strains of Golden Staph bacteria resistant to many antibiotics are a major cause of serious hospital-acquired, and increasingly community-acquired, infections. The bacteria have mechanisms that cause efficient transmission of resistance genes to their offspring as well as to other strains. This project aims to elucidate key features of these mechanisms so that treatments can be devised that disrupt the maintenance and transfer of resistance, so as to prolong the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $408,993.00

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 | bacterial genetics | molecular microbiology | multiply-resistant staphylococci | plasmids

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