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Overview

Scott A. Beatson is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as medicine, with a considerable focus on molecular medicine, endocrinology, molecular biology, clinical biochemistry, and epidemiology.

Their work covers several topics related to bacteria and antimicrobial resistance, including:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus

Frequent publication venues of Scott A. Beatson include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • PLoS Pathogens

Frequent collaborators include Brian M. Forde, Mark A. Schembri, Patrick N. A. Harris, David L. Paterson, and Minh-Duy Phan.

Selected recent publications are:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in ESKAPE Pathogens, 2020, Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Association Between Minimum Inhibitory Concentration, Beta-lactamase Genes and Mortality for Patients Treated With Piperacillin/Tazobactam or Meropenem From the MERINO Study, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Predicting nitroimidazole antibiotic resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with protein engineering, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Clinical Implementation of Routine Whole-genome Sequencing for Hospital Infection Control of Multi-drug Resistant Pathogens, 2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Integrating multiple genomic technologies to investigate an outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter hormaechei, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Easyfig: a genome comparison visualizer

    Mitchell J. Sullivan;Nicola K. Petty;Scott A. Beatson

  • BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG) : simple prokaryote genome comparisons

    Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Nicola K Petty;Nouri L Ben Zakour;Scott A Beatson

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • Antimicrobial resistance in ESKAPE pathogens

    David M. P. De Oliveira;Brian M. Forde;Timothy J. Kidd;Patrick N. A. Harris

  • 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

  • An extensive repertoire of type III secretion effectors in Escherichia coli O157 and the role of lambdoid phages in their dissemination

    Toru Tobe;Scott A. Beatson;Scott A. Beatson;Hisaaki Taniguchi;Hiroyuki Abe

  • Accelerated evolution of the Prdm9 speciation gene across diverse metazoan taxa

    Peter L. Oliver;Leo Goodstadt;Joshua J. Bayes;Zoë Birtle

  • Characterization of a complex chemosensory signal transduction system which controls twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Cynthia B. Whitchurch;Andrew J. Leech;Michael D. Young;Derek Kennedy;Derek Kennedy

  • Insights into a Multidrug Resistant Escherichia coli Pathogen of the Globally Disseminated ST131 Lineage: Genome Analysis and Virulence Mechanisms

    Makrina Totsika;Scott A. Beatson;Sohinee Sarkar;Minh Duy Phan

  • Differential regulation of twitching motility and elastase production by Vfr in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Scott A Beatson;Cynthia Beth Whitchurch;Jennifer L Sargent;Roger C Levesque

  • FpvB, an alternative type I ferripyoverdine receptor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Bart Ghysels;Bui Thi Min Dieu;Scott A. Beatson;Jean Paul Pirnay

  • The Serum Resistome of a Globally Disseminated Multidrug Resistant Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Clone

    Minh-Duy Phan;Kate M. Peters;Sohinee Sarkar;Samuel W. Lukowski

  • A commensal gone bad: complete genome sequence of the prototypical enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strain H10407.

    Lisa C. Crossman;Roy R. Chaudhuri;Scott A. Beatson;Timothy J. Wells

  • Bioinformatics, genomics and evolution of non-flagellar type-III secretion systems: a Darwinian perpective

    Mark J. Pallen;Scott A. Beatson;Christopher M. Bailey

  • Sequential Acquisition of Virulence and Fluoroquinolone Resistance Has Shaped the Evolution of Escherichia coli ST131

    Nouri L. Ben Zakour;Areej S. Alsheikh-Hussain;Melinda M. Ashcroft;Nguyen Thi Khanh Nhu

  • Proteome analysis of extracellular proteins regulated by the las and rhl quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1.

    Amanda S Nouwens;Scott A Beatson;Cynthia Beth Whitchurch;Bradley J Walsh

  • Identification of Type 3 Fimbriae in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Reveals a Role in Biofilm Formation

    Cheryl-Lynn Y. Ong;Glen Charles Ulett;Amada N. Mabbett;Scott A. Beatson

  • Variation in bacterial flagellins: from sequence to structure

    Scott A. Beatson;Tohru Minamino;Mark J. Pallen

  • A FimH inhibitor prevents acute bladder infection and treats chronic cystitis caused by multidrug resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli ST131.

    Makrina Totsika;Maria Kostakioti;Thomas J. Hannan;Mathew Upton

  • Quorum sensing is not required for twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Scott A Beatson;Cynthia Beth Whitchurch;Analese B T Semmler;John S Mattick

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Schembri
Mark A. Schembri University of Queensland
David L. Paterson
David L. Paterson University of Queensland
Makrina Totsika
Makrina Totsika Queensland University of Technology
Glen C. Ulett
Glen C. Ulett Griffith University
Kok-Gan Chan
Kok-Gan Chan University of Malaya
Mark J. Walker
Mark J. Walker University of Queensland
David M. Whiley
David M. Whiley University of Queensland
Scott C. Bell
Scott C. Bell University of Queensland
Cynthia B. Whitchurch
Cynthia B. Whitchurch University of Technology Sydney
Jeffrey Lipman
Jeffrey Lipman University of Queensland

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