17th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR Interventions 2024 (IMPACT)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Institute of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Justus Liebig University Giessen
• Country: Germany (DE)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: Improve and/or, compare and/or evaluate strategies, technologies, treatments, methods, protocols or data collection based on existing interventions, aiming to prevent or reduce the emergence or spread of antibacterial or antifungal resistance or to treat/cure infections caused by resistant bacteria/fungi and recommend new policies.
• Subtopics:
  1. Improve and/or compare and/ or evaluate the effectiveness of existing interventions (e.g. cost effectiveness clinical utility, socio-economic adaptability, reducing AMR emergence, spread, transmission, treatment etc.)

• One Health Setting:
  Animal Health (incl. wildlife, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)

• Keywords:

  AMR bacteria; molecular epidemiology; whole genome sequencing; multi-drug resistance

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

  Molecular epidemiology of AMR bacteria, particularly gram negative pathogens, including E. coli, Klebsiella spp., Enterobacter spp. and Acinetobacter spp.. Whole genome sequence based surveillance of multidrug-resistant bacteria (including carbapenemase-, ESBL/AmpC-producing bacteria) in veterinary clinics. Standard cultivation techniques, bacterial differentiation (MALDI-TOF, genome sequencing), antimicrobial susceptibility testing (Micronaut, VITEK), AMR gene, virulence gene determination, plasmid epidemiology.

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

  A project linking the veterinary and human/environmental field.

Prof. Dr. Christa Ewers

• Organisation: Institute of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Justus Liebig University Giessen
• Position: Head of Institute
• E-mail: christa.ewers@vetmed.uni-giessen.de