Modernising Medical Microbiology

Modernising Medical Microbiology is a research group aiming to transform how we analyse and treat infections, to improve patient care.

You can read more about our background, objectives and future plans from Professor Derrick Crook in an article with IMPACT Journal here.

We aim to:

1. Modernise the way we analyse infections, bringing cutting-edge scientific techniques to clinical care.
2. Transform the way we study the treatment of patients with infections, using large databases of hospital electronic information, to identify trends in how infections are behaving, and ways patient care can be improved.
3. Use techniques such as DNA analysis of bacteria and viruses to better understand how infections spread, how to treat them, and how to prevent them in the future.
4. Study how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, and more difficult to treat, and how to prevent this.

Modernising Medical Microbiology studies a number of infections, in particular, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), - the Enterobacterales family (Escherichia coli, Klebsiella species and others) and Clostridium difficile (C. diff). You can learn more about these bacteria here

Projects

The Modernising Medical Microbiology Research Group has many active research projects.  

You can learn more about the projects here.

Public Involvement

If you are interested in being a part of our public engagement team, please get in contact!  

Pathogens and viruses

What Pathogens and Viruses do the MMM team research?