The ongoing evolution of class 1 integrons and the recruitment of new resistance and virulence genes into pathogens

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/543402

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bacteria are remarkably adaptive and evolve in ways that plants and animals do not. One of these ways is Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT), a process allowing one bacterial cell in a community to give genes that have been developed or acquired to other members of the community. This is a process that has led to the problem of multi drug resistance. This project aims to understand and thereby limit the movement of resistance genes from harmless bacteria into those that cause disease in humans.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $526,878.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Infectious Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Integrons | Lateral Gene Transfer | Multi antibiotic resistance | Nosocomial Infections | Plasmids | Transposons | molecular epidemiology

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