16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Project title: SPECTAM
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam (Erasmus MC)
• Country: Netherlands (NL)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: to develop or improve existing strategies, technologies or methods, or data use strategies to support One Health AMR surveillance
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

• Keywords:

  Cultured micro-organisms; beta-lactam phenotypic detection; assay feasibility; assay quality experiments.

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

  Least developed country partner(s) who culture bacteria as part of their routine or microbiological surveillance systems and perform human health surveillance. Willing to perform, beta-lactam phenotypic detection, feasibility of testing and assay quality experiments. Preferably a (regional) reference laboratory or a large hospital.

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

  Partners are developing a simple technique that phenotypically identifies beta-lactam resistance(s) in cultured bacterial isolates.

J. Hays

• Organisation: Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam (Erasmus MC)
• Position: Associate Professor
• E-mail: j.hays@erasmusmc.nl
• Web: www.erasmusmc.nl/en/research/departments/medical-microbiology