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92

Overview

Peter Collignon is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, focusing mainly on topics related to antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, and the impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, their subfields of study consist of:

  • Molecular Medicine
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Ophthalmology

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Urinary Tract Infections Management
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Retinal and Optic Conditions
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Collignon include:

  • "Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Not sick enough to worry? "Influenza-like" symptoms and work-related behavior among healthcare workers and other professionals: Results of a global survey," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Setting a baseline for global urban virome surveillance in sewage," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Key lessons from the COVID-19 public health response in Australia," 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
  • "CON: COVID-19 will not result in increased antimicrobial resistance prevalence," 2020, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

Frequent co-authors working alongside them include:

  • John J. Beggs
  • René S. Hendriksen
  • José E. Villacís
  • Kevin B. Laupland
  • Artan Bego

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Best Publications

  • Antimicrobial Resistance: a One Health Perspective.

    Scott A. McEwen;Peter J. Collignon

  • Management Options for Reducing the Release of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes to the Environment

    Amy Pruden;D.G. Joakim Larsson;Alejandro Amézquita;Peter Collignon

  • The Scourge of Antibiotic Resistance: The Important Role of the Environment

    Rita L. Finley;Peter Collignon;D. G. Joakim Larsson;Scott A. McEwen

  • Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) for environmental development and transfer of antibiotic resistance.

    Nicholas J. Ashbolt;Alejandro Amézquita;Thomas Backhaus;Peter Borriello

  • Anthropological and socioeconomic factors contributing to global antimicrobial resistance: a univariate and multivariable analysis.

    Peter Collignon;Peter Collignon;John J Beggs;Timothy R Walsh;Sumanth Gandra

  • Human Health Consequences of Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Aquaculture

    Ole Heuer;Hilde Kruse;Kari Grave;Peter Collignon

  • Resistance in bacteria of the food chain: epidemiology and control strategies

    Frank Møller Aarestrup;Henrik Caspar Wegener;P. Collignon

  • Society's failure to protect a precious resource: antibiotics

    Jean Carlet;Peter Collignon;Don Goldmann;Herman Goossens

  • One Health-Its Importance in Helping to Better Control Antimicrobial Resistance.

    Peter J Collignon;Scott A McEwen

  • Intravascular catheter-associated infections.

    J. A. Crump;P. J. Collignon

  • World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals.

    Awa Aidara-Kane;Frederick J. Angulo;John M. Conly;Yuki Minato

  • World Health Organization Ranking of Antimicrobials According to Their Importance in Human Medicine: A Critical Step for Developing Risk Management Strategies to Control Antimicrobial Resistance From Food Animal Production

    Peter C. Collignon;Peter C. Collignon;John M. Conly;Antoine Andremont;Scott A. McEwen

  • World Health Organization Ranking of Antimicrobials According to Their Importance in Human Medicine: A Critical Step for Developing Risk Management Strategies for the Use of Antimicrobials in Food Production Animals

    Peter Collignon;John H Powers;John H Powers;John H Powers;Tom M Chiller;Awa Aidara-Kane

  • The changing epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: a multinational population-based surveillance study

    Kevin Laupland;O Lyytikäinen;M. Søgaard;Karina Kennedy

  • Control of Fluoroquinolone Resistance through Successful Regulation, Australia

    Allen Cheuk-Seng Cheng;John D Turnidge;Peter Collignon;David Looke

  • Intravascular catheter associated sepsis : a common problem

    Peter J Collignon

  • Colonisation with Escherichia coli resistant to “critically important” antibiotics: a high risk for international travellers

    Karina Kennedy;Peter Collignon

  • Effect of beta lactam antibiotic use in children on pneumococcal resistance to penicillin: prospective cohort study.

    Dilruba Nasrin;Peter J Collignon;Leslee Roberts;Elena Alexandrovna Wilson

  • Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of antibiotic-resistant Propionibacterium acnes isolated from acne patients attending dermatology clinics in Europe, the U.S.A., Japan and Australia.

    J I Ross;A M Snelling;E A Eady;J H Cove

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Australian community: an evolving epidemic.

    Graeme R Nimmo;Geoffrey W Coombs;Julie C Pearson;Francis G O'Brien

Frequent Co-Authors

Tania C. Sorrell
Tania C. Sorrell University of Sydney
Graeme R. Nimmo
Graeme R. Nimmo Griffith University
Geoffrey W. Coombs
Geoffrey W. Coombs Fiona Stanley Hospital
Jan M. Bell
Jan M. Bell University of Adelaide
John D. Turnidge
John D. Turnidge University of Adelaide
Allen C. Cheng
Allen C. Cheng Monash University
Scott A. McEwen
Scott A. McEwen University of Guelph
Nicholas Graves
Nicholas Graves Queensland University of Technology
Kevin B. Laupland
Kevin B. Laupland Queensland University of Technology
David M. Gordon
David M. Gordon Australian National University

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