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Professor Brian Spratt Head, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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Prof Spratt has worked on the mechanism of action of penicillin and identified the physiological targets of penicillin action (penicillin-binding proteins). He has also worked on resistance to ß-lactam antibiotics, particularly resistance mediated by alterations of the penicillin-binding proteins. Currently he is interested in the evolutionary and population biology of major bacterial pathogens and in multilocus sequence-based methods for the unambiguous characterisation of major bacterial pathogens on the internet (MLST). |
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