I am a water quality microbiologist studying the ecology of antibiotic resistant bacteria and the potential for resistance to spread in environmental reservoirs. My dissertation research is on the survival of vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) associated with sewage. My advisers at the University of South Florida are Dr. Valerie (Jody) Harwood and Dr. Jason Rohr. I received my B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. from Queens College, both in NYC.
How do antibiotic-resistant bacteria get into the environment?
Sep 22, 2016 23:03 pm UTC| Science Nature
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem. The United Nations recently acknowledged this as one of the biggest threats to modern medicine, dedicating a high-level meeting to the issue at the 2016 General...
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