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Philip M. Giffard is affiliated with Charles Darwin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, focusing primarily on infectious diseases and public health.

Their recent research publications cover a range of topics related to bacterial infections, antimicrobial resistance, and molecular epidemiology. Notable papers include:

  • Evaluating the role of asymptomatic throat carriage of Streptococcus pyogenes in impetigo transmission in remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective genomic analysis (2023, The Lancet Microbe)
  • Inter-species gene flow drives ongoing evolution of Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Host-dependent resistance of Group A Streptococcus to sulfamethoxazole mediated by a horizontally-acquired reduced folate transporter (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of an Emerging Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive ST5 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clone in Northern Australia (2021, mSphere)
  • Overlapping Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis household transmission and mobile genetic element exchange (2024, Nature Communications)

Their work addresses core areas in infectious diseases, with main research topics including:

  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Neonatal and Maternal Infections
  • Otolaryngology and Infectious Diseases
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Philip M. Giffard's main fields of study comprise:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, they have contributed to research in several subfields, including:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Clinical Biochemistry

The scientist has published frequently in journals such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiology Australia
  • The Lancet Microbe
  • mSphere

Philip M. Giffard has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Steven Y. C. Tong
  • Deborah C. Holt
  • Jake A. Lacey
  • Mark R. Davies
  • Asha C Bowen

Best Publications

  • Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) : guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements.

    T. Ito;K. Hiramatsu;D. Oliviera;H. de Lencastre

  • Novel staphylococcal species that form part of a Staphylococcus aureus-related complex: the non-pigmented Staphylococcus argenteus sp. nov. and the non-human primate-associated Staphylococcus schweitzeri sp. nov.

    Steven Y. C. Tong;Steven Y. C. Tong;Frieder Schaumburg;Matthew J. Ellington;Jukka Corander

  • Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer

    Talima Pearson;Philip Giffard;Philip Giffard;Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg;Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg;Raymond Auerbach;Raymond Auerbach

  • Guidelines for Reporting Novel mecA Gene Homologues

    Teruyo Ito;Keiichi Hiramatsu;Alexander Tomasz;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • Atlas of group A streptococcal vaccine candidates compiled using large-scale comparative genomics.

    Mark R Davies;Mark R Davies;Mark R Davies;Liam McIntyre;Ankur Mutreja;Jake A. Lacey

  • Genetic Diversity among Community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Causing Outpatient Infections in Australia

    Geoffrey W. Coombs;Graeme R. Nimmo;Jan M. Bell;Flavia Huygens

  • Microbiological Applications of High-Resolution Melting Analysis

    Steven Y. C. Tong;Philip M. Giffard

  • A Very Early-Branching Staphylococcus aureus Lineage Lacking the Carotenoid Pigment Staphyloxanthin

    Deborah C. Holt;Matthew T.G. Holden;Steven Y.C. Tong;Santiago Castillo-Ramirez

  • Lactobacillus fermentum BR11, a potential new probiotic, alleviates symptoms of colitis induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) in rats

    Mark S. Geier;Ross N. Butler;Philip M. Giffard;Gordon S. Howarth

  • Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus, including community-associated methicillin-resistant strains, in Queensland adults.

    Wendy Munckhof;Graeme Nimmo;Jacqui Schooneveldt;Sanmarie Schlebusch

  • High-resolution DNA melt curve analysis of the clustered, regularly interspaced short-palindromic-repeat locus of Campylobacter jejuni.

    Erin P. Price;Helen Smith;Flavia Huygens;Philip M. Giffard

  • Comprehensive global genome dynamics of Chlamydia trachomatis show ancient diversification followed by contemporary mixing and recent lineage expansion

    James Hadfield;Simon R. Harris;Helena M.B. Seth-Smith;Surendra Parmar

  • Use of a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping System To Demonstrate the Unique Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Remote Aboriginal Communities

    Malcolm McDonald;Malcolm McDonald;Annette Dougall;Deborah Holt;Flavia Huygens

  • Community-Associated Strains of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Susceptible S. aureus in Indigenous Northern Australia: Epidemiology and Outcomes

    Steven Y. C. Tong;Emma J. Bishop;Rachael A. Lilliebridge;Allen C. Cheng

  • Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Are Predominantly Susceptible to Aminoglycosides and Macrolides

    Yuwana Podin;Derek S. Sarovich;Erin P. Price;Mirjam Kaestli

  • Definition of a Fundamental Repeating Unit in Streptococcal Glucosyltransferase Glucan-binding Regions and Related Sequences

    P.M. Giffard;N.A. Jacques

  • Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by veterinarians in Australia

    D Jordan;J Simon;S Fury;S Moss

  • Methicillin-susceptible, non-multiresistant methicillin-resistant and multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections: a clinical, epidemiological and microbiological comparative study

    W. J. Munckhof;G. R. Nimmo;J. Carney;J. M. Schooneveldt

  • Identification and interrogation of highly informative single nucleotide polymorphism sets defined by bacterial multilocus sequence typing databases

    Gail A. Robertson;Venugopal Thiruvenkataswamy;Hayden Shilling;Erin P. Price

  • High-Resolution Melting Analysis of the spa Repeat Region of Staphylococcus aureus

    Alex J. Stephens;John Inman-Bamber;Philip M. Giffard;Flavia Huygens

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart J. Currie
Bart J. Currie Charles Darwin University
Graeme R. Nimmo
Graeme R. Nimmo Griffith University
Patrick J. Blackall
Patrick J. Blackall University of Queensland
Matthew T. G. Holden
Matthew T. G. Holden University of St Andrews
Jonathan R. Carapetis
Jonathan R. Carapetis Telethon Kids Institute
Stephen D. Bentley
Stephen D. Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Jan M. Bell
Jan M. Bell University of Adelaide
Simon R. Harris
Simon R. Harris Wellcome Sanger Institute
Peter Timms
Peter Timms University of the Sunshine Coast

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