Monitoring Populations at risk from Coronavirus
Emma Pritchard, Statistician and PhD student shares her work with ONS on Coronavirus statistics.
Read moreModernising Medical Microbiology
Modernising Medical Microbiology is a research group aiming to transform how we analyse and treat infections, to improve patient care.
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.
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?
Latest publications
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Risk of Long Covid in people infected with SARS-CoV-2 after two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine: community-based, matched cohort study
Journal article
Ayoubkhani D. et al, (2022), Open Forum Infectious Diseases
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High fluoroquinolone resistance proportions among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis driven by dominant L2 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clones in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Journal article
Dreyer V. et al, (2022), Genome medicine, 14
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A data compendium associating the genomes of 12,289 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with quantitative resistance phenotypes to 13 antibiotics.
Journal article
Crook DW. et al, (2022), PLoS biology, 20
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Genome-wide association studies of global Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to 13 antimicrobials in 10,228 genomes identify new resistance mechanisms
Journal article
(2022), PLOS Biology, 20, e3001755 - e3001755
Blog posts
COVID-19: accelerating testing with robotics
Kevin Chau, a PhD student on our National PhD Training Programme in AMR Research, has contributed to the pandemic response as part of the Modernising Medical Microbiology team at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. In a new blog post, he describes the experience.
Monitoring Populations at risk from Coronavirus
Emma Pritchard, Statistician and PhD student shares her work with ONS on Coronavirus statistics.