JPIAMR 14th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Bayero University Kano
• Country: Nigeria (NG)

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Design and implementation of new strategies (including optimisation of drug doses) for improved application, efficacy and delivery of single or combinations of antimicrobials
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

• Type of studies/experimental approaches:

  in silico, in vitro, in vivo

• Keywords:

  Antimicrobial resistance ; drug synergy ; rural communities low and mid income country

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Have years of experience in antimicrobial use and resistance research in Nigeria. Have collaboration with Robert Koch Institute in Germany and Big data institute in Oxford UK on antimicrobial resistant clinical isolates and resistant genes conferring resistance in Nigerian human and environmental settings. Have published the first paper in Nigeria to report synergy of antibiotics to treat extensively drug resistant enterobacteria from immune compromised patients in Nigeria

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Project that involve antimicrobial resistance survey in human or environment (including plants), surveillance of antimicrobial resistance genes in clinical and environmental sources, antimicrobial synergy tests, optimizing antimicrobial use in rural hospitals, stewardship in urban and rural hospitals

Ibrahim Yusuf

• Organisation: Bayero University Kano
• Position: Senior Researcher
• E-mail: iyusuf.bio@buk.edu.ng
• Phone: +2347037865734