Webster Centre members, Professor Sarah Hook, Dr James Ussher and Dr Jo Kirman, along with Dr Andrea Vernall, were part of a team who recently received funding to develop a faster way to detect antibiotic resistance.
The team received a $150,000 explorer grant from the Health Research Council (HRC) of New Zealand to create a unique test that doctors could use on a patient at their bedside to quickly find out if a strain of bacteria will be resistant to a particular antibiotic.
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