Multidrug resistant Escherichia coli is a leading cause of global mortality. Transfer of plasmids carrying genes encoding beta-lactamases, carbapenamases, an...

Plasmids are extrachromosomal replicons. When taken as a whole, plasmids are typically AT-rich compared to the host chromosome. However, the GC-content of in...

POP UP events are designed to support ECR's in the field of microbial genomics. They are in person day events featuring talks, flash presentations and networ...

Sam talks about why publishing in an open access Microbiology Society Journal is so important., how it supports the community, LMIC's and ECR's! There is als...

BackgroundCarbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are critical priority pathogens, epitomising the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pandemic. Epidemiolo...

Here is Dorottya giving a quick introduction to the talk that was presented at MicrobesNG Pop Up in Oxford entitled 'Epidemiological, microbiological and genomic risk factors for plasmid-mediated hospital outbreaks of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales'.

Antimicrobial resistance is a rising global health threat. Pathogens increasingly acquire and carry resistance-conferring mutations which can spread by horiz...