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About 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 they 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.

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

Temporary update:    Link to content for PPI/E Meeting  on 4th May 2018 here: http://modmedmicro.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ppe_040518/