Interactions between integrative genomic islands and plasmids; role in the spread and loss of antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity determinants

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1128334

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Mobile elements that integrate into bacterial chromosomes at a specific site contribute pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance determinants to their bacterial host but only a few are able to move themselves into new hosts. Some plasmids and some elements can help certain others. In this project, genetic approaches will be used to investigate how plasmids and integrative elements help one another move into a new bacterium or compete with one another to stay in the same cell.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2020

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $776,465.00

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 | gene transfer | pathogenic bacteria | plasmids | recombination

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