Projects
Trends in fluoroquinolone resistance in new TB patients in Bangladesh and the subsequent rate of acquired drug resistance Institute of Tropical Medicine
The secondary objective is to assess whether patients with baseline FQ resistance without baseline rifampicin resistance experience higher rates of failure due to acquired resistance to non-FQ TB drugs (including ...
Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe – Carbapenem Resistance (COMBACTE‐CARE). University of Antwerp
Development and application of statistical methodology for analysis of the phenomenon of multi-drug resistance in the EU: demonstration of analytical approaches using antimicrobial resistance isolate-based data. Hasselt University
Experimental induction of miltefosine resistance in intracellular Leishmania donovani and L. infantum amastigotes to study the influence of resistance on the interaction between drug, host and parasite University of Antwerp
Antimicrobial resistance - Impact of cross contamination of animal feed with antimicrobial agents on resistance development Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
What is the effect of low doses of antibiotics in feed as a consequence of carry-over, on selection of resistant bacteria and transfer of resisance genes in the animal gut? This is the central research question of the Crosscontam project. By carry-over from medicated to non-medicated feed cross contamination of feed with antibiotics may occur. Since 2014, carry-over is mainly located in Belgium ...
Antimicrobial resistance - impact of cross-contamination of animal feeders with antimicrobials in resistance development. Ghent University
Cross-contamination of feed with antibiotics are possibly not desirable slectiedruk for antibiotic resistance. However, there is little to no literature is available regarding the effect of low doses of antibiotic resistance selection. The main question is whether these low doses have an effect on increasing the selection of resistant bacteria in the gut and the transfer of resistance among bacteria. The answers will contribute to this on the ...
Mitochondrial mutations: new challenges for resistence management Ghent University
This project aims at analysing the properties and evolution of mitochondrial encoded resistance traits in arthropods. This project offers a rare opportunity to an in depth study of non-Mendelian inheritance under controlled laboratory circumstances in arthropods. The final goal is a thorough evaluation of the resistance risks of QoI inhibitors in a broader context than crop protection and the exploration of processes regulating the evolution ...
ZEIN2008MP358 Cuba: HIV drug resistence testing in Cuba. KU Leuven
Characterisation of a novel branch in plant immunity signalling and assessment of its utility to engineer tomato and other dicot crop plants with increased pathogen resistance Ghent University
Plant immunity, for instance resistance to bacterial and fungal pathogens, involves the action of
phytohormones, of which salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonate (JA) are considered the most important.
The past decades, we have seen spectacular progress in our understanding of SA and JA biology. Yet,
many key questions remain unanswered, particularly on the possible complexity in immunity
signalling across the plant kingdom, ...