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Anton Y. Peleg

Anton Y. Peleg

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Microbiology

D-Index
71
Citations
43882
World Ranking
1800
National Ranking
58

Overview

Anton Y. Peleg is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these main fields, Peleg's work spans several subfields including epidemiology, molecular medicine, infectious diseases, molecular biology, and clinical biochemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Urinary Tract Infections Management

Peleg has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 - Preliminary Report" (2020) in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Rapid generation of durable B cell memory to SARS-CoV-2 spike and nucleocapsid proteins in COVID-19 and convalescence" (2020) in Science Immunology
  • "Bacteriophage-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are resensitized to antimicrobials" (2021) in Nature Microbiology
  • "Phage-antibiotic combination is a superior treatment against Acinetobacter baumannii in a preclinical study" (2022) in EBioMedicine
  • "Beta-Lactam Antibiotic Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (2022) in Clinical Infectious Diseases

The frequent coauthors contributing to Peleg's work include:

  • Nenad Maćešić
  • Andrew J. Stewardson
  • Luke V. Blakeway
  • Jessica A. Wisniewski
  • Xenia Kostoulias

Research outputs by Peleg have appeared regularly in several publication venues, with the highest number of publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other frequent venues include:

  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Infection Disease & Health
  • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Biofilm

Best Publications

  • Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

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  • Acinetobacter baumannii: Emergence of a Successful Pathogen

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Harald Seifert;David L Paterson;David L Paterson

  • Hospital-Acquired Infections Due to Gram-Negative Bacteria

    Anton Yariv Peleg;David C Hooper

  • Effect of Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Meropenem on 30-Day Mortality for Patients With E coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infection and Ceftriaxone Resistance A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Patrick N. A. Harris;Patrick N. A. Harris;Patrick N. A. Harris;Paul A. Tambyah;David C. Lye;David C. Lye;David C. Lye;Yin Mo

  • Common infections in diabetes: pathogenesis, management and relationship to glycaemic control.

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Thilak Weerarathna;James McCarthy;James McCarthy;Timothy M E Davis

  • Medically important bacterial–fungal interactions

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Deborah A Hogan;Eleftherios Mylonakis

  • Treatment of Acinetobacter Infections

    Joel Fishbain;Anton Yariv Peleg;Anton Yariv Peleg

  • Risk Factors, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcome of Nocardia Infection in Organ Transplant Recipients: A Matched Case-Control Study

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Shahid Husain;Zubair A Qureshi;Fernanda P Silveira

  • Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 - Preliminary Report.

    James H. McMahon;Andrew Udy;Anton Y. Peleg

  • Galleria mellonella as a model system to study Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis and therapeutics.

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Sebastian Jara;Divya Monga;George M Eliopoulos;George M Eliopoulos

  • Phenotypic Detection of Carbapenem-Susceptible Metallo-β-Lactamase-Producing Gram-Negative Bacilli in the Clinical Laboratory

    Clare Franklin;Lisa Liolios;Anton Y. Peleg

  • Acinetobacter baumannii: evolution of antimicrobial resistance-treatment options.

    Yohei Doi;Gerald L. Murray;Anton Y. Peleg;Anton Y. Peleg

  • Tigecycline Efflux as a Mechanism for Nonsusceptibility in Acinetobacter baumannii

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Jennifer Adams;David L Paterson

  • Acinetobacter baumannii bloodstream infection while receiving tigecycline: a cautionary report

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Brian A Potoski;Rhonda Rea;Jennifer Adams

  • The Mechanisms of Disease Caused by Acinetobacter baumannii

    Faye C. Morris;Carina Dexter;Xenia Kostoulias;Muhammad Ikhtear Uddin

  • Clinical outcomes and bacterial characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae complex among patients from different global regions (CRACKLE-2): a prospective, multicentre, cohort study.

    Minggui Wang;Michelle Earley;Liang Chen;Blake M Hanson

  • Management of meningitis due to antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter species

    Boek Lam Kim;Anton Peleg;Thomas P Lodise;Jeffrey Lipman

  • Bacteriophage-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are resensitized to antimicrobials.

    Fernando Gordillo Altamirano;John H Forsyth;Ruzeen Patwa;Xenia Kostoulias

  • Rapid generation of durable B cell memory to SARS-CoV-2 spike and nucleocapsid proteins in COVID-19 and convalescence.

    Gemma E. Hartley;Emily S.J. Edwards;Pei M. Aui;Nirupama Varese

  • Opportunistic infections in 547 organ transplant recipients receiving alemtuzumab, a humanized monoclonal CD-52 antibody

    Anton Y. Peleg;Shahid Husain;Eun J. Kwak;Fernanda P. Silveira

  • Dissemination of the Metallo-β-Lactamase Gene blaIMP-4 among Gram-Negative Pathogens in a Clinical Setting in Australia

    Anton Y. Peleg;Clare Franklin;Jan M. Bell;Denis W. Spelman

  • Whole Genome Characterization of the Mechanisms of Daptomycin Resistance in Clinical and Laboratory Derived Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

    Anton Y. Peleg;Spiros Miyakis;Spiros Miyakis;Doyle V. Ward;Ashlee M. Earl

  • Candida albicans Hyphal Formation and Virulence Assessed Using a Caenorhabditis elegans Infection Model

    Read Pukkila-Worley;Anton Yariv Peleg;Anton Yariv Peleg;Emmanouil Tampakakis;Eleftherios Mylonakis

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Paterson
David L. Paterson University of Queensland
Benjamin P. Howden
Benjamin P. Howden University of Melbourne
Allen C. Cheng
Allen C. Cheng Monash University
George M. Eliopoulos
George M. Eliopoulos Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Eleftherios Mylonakis
Eleftherios Mylonakis Houston Methodist
Timothy P. Stinear
Timothy P. Stinear University of Melbourne
Torsten Seemann
Torsten Seemann University of Melbourne
Joseph Meletiadis
Joseph Meletiadis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Johan W. Mouton
Johan W. Mouton Radboud University Medical Center
Gustavo C. Cerqueira
Gustavo C. Cerqueira Broad Institute

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