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Rob Moran

@pRobM91

Research Fellow at University of Birmingham. I like plasmids. Co-founder of @ContamClub
Birmingham, England Joined June 2019
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Rob Moran @pRobM91
Fancy a Friday plasmid tale to start the year? 🧵👇

A little story from our preprint about a Guangzhou ICU's E. coli. It's about a CTX-M gene's escape from its host chromosome, involving a couple of my favourite MGEs from @DETECTIVE_AMR projects. [1/7]

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
www.biorxiv.org Extended-spectrum β-lactamase genes traverse the Escherichia coli populations of ICU patients,... Over a three-month period, we monitored the population of extended-spectrum β-lactam-resistant Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) associated with the patients, staff and environment of an intensive care unit...