Geoffrey Coombs
Professor
Medical and Molecular Sciences
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Geoffrey Coombs is a Professor in the Medical and Molecular Sciences department of Murdoch University
Research Interest
Antimicrobial resistance and the molecular evolution of Staphylococcus aureus and enterococci particularly in community and livestock associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus and vancomycin-resistant E. faecium.
Publications
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Mycobacterium chimaera colonisation of heater-cooler units (HCU) in Western Australia, 2015: investigation of possible iatrogenic infection using whole genome sequencing. Robinson JO, Coombs GW, Speers DJ, Keehner T, Keil AD, D’Abrera V, Boan P, Pang S. Euro Surveill. 2016 Nov 17;21(46). pii: 30396. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.46.30396. PMID: 27918263
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Polyclonal emergence of vanA vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Australia. van Hal SJ, Espedido BA, Coombs GW, Howden BP, Korman TM, Nimmo GR, Gosbell IB, Jensen SO. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2016 Dec 28. pii: dkw539. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkw539. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 28031272
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Evolutionary origins of the emergent ST796 clone of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium. Buultjens AH, Lam MM, Ballard S, Monk IR, Mahony AA, Grabsch EA, Grayson ML, Pang S, Coombs GW, Robinson JO, Seemann T, Johnson PD, Howden BP, Stinear TP. PeerJ. 2017 Jan 24;5:e2916. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2916. PMID: 28149688
