Resistance to antibiotics ($5,000)
This grant was awarded to Stephen Tristram, in the School of Human Life Sciences at the University.
Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria is not a new phenomenon and resistant strains have been emerging since the introduction of antibacterial chemotherapy in the early 1940’s. In recent times a sense of crisis seems to have developed in response to the continual emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance and the presence of multiple resistant strains for which no effective therapy is available.
The direct benefits of the research project are that it may detect a previously unrecognised form of antibiotic resistance and may help establish modifications to laboratory tests required to detect the resistance.
Tasmania's Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust was established in 1991.