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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

David M. Livermore is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans fields related to medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on molecular medicine and epidemiology.

Their scientific contributions emphasize antibiotic resistance in bacteria, including mechanisms of resistance, antibiotic use and resistance, and related infectious diseases.

Main topics explored in their work include:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU
  • Urinary Tract Infections Management
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Their publication record is extensive, with frequent contributions to several scientific journals. Most publications have appeared in the following venues:

  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by David M. Livermore are:

  • "Metallo-β-Lactamases: Structure, Function, Epidemiology, Treatment Options, and the Development Pipeline" (2020), published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • "OXA-48-Like β-Lactamases: Global Epidemiology, Treatment Options, and Development Pipeline" (2022), Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • "In Vitro Activity of Cefiderocol, a Siderophore Cephalosporin, against Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria" (2020), Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • "Multicentre evaluation of two multiplex PCR platforms for the rapid microbiological investigation of nosocomial pneumonia in UK ICUs: the INHALE WP1 study" (2022), Thorax
  • "Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales, Carbapenem Resistant Organisms, Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterales, and Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms: Terminology Past its 'Sell-By Date' in an Era of New Antibiotics and Regional Carbapenemase Epidemiology" (2020), Clinical Infectious Diseases

David M. Livermore has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including:

  • Shazad Mushtaq
  • Virve I. Enne
  • Vanya Gant
  • Neil Woodford
  • Anna Vickers

Their research integrates applied microbiology, biotechnology, pharmacology, and critical care medicine. This interdisciplinary approach reflects the complexity of addressing antibiotic resistance and infectious diseases in clinical settings, especially concerning intensive care unit environments and bacterial pathogens.

Best Publications

  • Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study

    Karthikeyan K. Kumarasamy;Mark Alexander Howard Toleman;Timothy Rutland Walsh;Jay Bagaria

  • beta-Lactamases in laboratory and clinical resistance.

    David M. Livermore

  • Multiple Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Our Worst Nightmare?

    David M. Livermore

  • Clinical epidemiology of the global expansion of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases

    L Silvia Munoz-Price;L Silvia Munoz-Price;Laurent Poirel;Robert A Bonomo;Robert A Bonomo;Mitchell J Schwaber

  • Dissemination of NDM-1 positive bacteria in the New Delhi environment and its implications for human health: an environmental point prevalence study

    Timothy Rutland Walsh;Timothy Rutland Walsh;Janis Lesley Weeks;David M. Livermore;Mark Alexander Howard Toleman

  • Multiplex PCR for genes encoding prevalent OXA carbapenemases in Acinetobacter spp.

    Neil Woodford;Matthew J. Ellington;Juliana M. Coelho;Jane F. Turton

  • CTX-M: changing the face of ESBLs in Europe

    David M. Livermore;Rafael Canton;Marek Gniadkowski;Patrice Nordmann

  • Multiresistant Gram-negative bacteria: the role of high-risk clones in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance

    Neil Woodford;Jane F. Turton;David M. Livermore

  • Rapid evolution and spread of carbapenemases among Enterobacteriaceae in Europe

    R. Cantón;M. Akóva;Y. Carmeli;C.G. Giske

  • The role of ISAba1 in expression of OXA carbapenemase genes in Acinetobacter baumannii

    Jane F. Turton;M. Elaina Ward;Neil Woodford;Mary E. Kaufmann

  • Has the era of untreatable infections arrived

    David M. Livermore

  • Multiplex PCR for rapid detection of genes encoding acquired metallo-beta-lactamases.

    Matthew J Ellington;James Kistler;David M Livermore;Neil Woodford

  • The β-lactamase threat in Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter

    David M. Livermore;Neil Woodford

  • The emerging NDM carbapenemases.

    Patrice Nordmann;Laurent Poirel;Timothy R. Walsh;David M. Livermore

  • Bacterial Resistance: Origins, Epidemiology, and Impact

    David M. Livermore

  • Occurrence of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli in the European survey of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (EuSCAPE): a prospective, multinational study.

    Hajo Grundmann;Hajo Grundmann;Corinna Glasner;Corinna Glasner;Barbara Albiger;David M Aanensen;David M Aanensen

  • European guidelines for empirical antibacterial therapy for febrile neutropenic patients in the era of growing resistance: summary of the 2011 4th European Conference on Infections in Leukemia.

    Diana Averbuch;Christina Orasch;Catherine Cordonnier;David M. Livermore

  • Persistence of sulphonamide resistance in Escherichia coli in the UK despite national prescribing restriction.

    Virve I Enne;David M Livermore;Peter Stephens;Lucinda Mc Hall

  • A Multinational Survey of Risk Factors for Infection with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Nonhospitalized Patients

    Ronen Ben-Ami;Jesús Rodríguez-Baño;Hande Arslan;Johann D D Pitout

  • Outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae Producing a New Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Class A β-Lactamase, KPC-3, in a New York Medical Center

    Neil Woodford;Philip M. Tierno;Katherine Young;Luke Tysall

  • Community and hospital spread of Escherichia coli producing CTX-M extended-spectrum β-lactamases in the UK

    N. Woodford;M. E. Ward;M. E. Kaufmann;J. Turton

  • Nanopore metagenomics enables rapid clinical diagnosis of bacterial lower respiratory infection.

    Themoula Charalampous;Gemma L Kay;Gemma L Kay;Hollian Richardson;Alp Aydin

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina Warner
Marina Warner Public Health England
Neil Woodford
Neil Woodford Government of the United Kingdom
Michel Doumith
Michel Doumith King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
Lucinda M. C. Hall
Lucinda M. C. Hall Queen Mary University of London
Alan P. Johnson
Alan P. Johnson Public Health England
Jane F. Turton
Jane F. Turton Public Health England
Matthew J. Ellington
Matthew J. Ellington Public Health England
Katie L. Hopkins
Katie L. Hopkins Public Health England
Timothy R. Walsh
Timothy R. Walsh University of Oxford
John Wain
John Wain University of East Anglia

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