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Research Biography
After completion of a PhD in latency of herpes simplex virus, at the University of Adelaide, I undertook post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Cambridge and at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 2001 I returned to Australia to continue herpesvirus-related research at the Inst. of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide. In July 2007 I accepted an offer to move to Flinders University.
Research Interests
Bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. A strong potential alternative is bacteriophages -"phages" -viruses that infect bacteria. In collaboration with US/Australian company AmpliPhi Biosciences, I am pursuing the use of phages as a treatment for bacterial infections in a number of important medical settings:
-chronic rhinosinusitis: a human trial of this technology commenced in January 2016, in collaboration with ENT surgeon/scientist Prof. PJ Wormald
-diabetic foot ulcer infections
-nasal Staphylococcus aureus decolonization.
I collaborate with the US Army Medical Research Materiel Command to introduce phages into their Combat Wound Infection Control Program.
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Research output
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Economic evaluations considering costs and outcomes of diabetic foot ulcer infections: A systematic review
Woods, T. J., Tesfay, F., Speck, P. & Kaambwa, B., Apr 2020, In: PLoS One. 15, 4, 16 p., e0232395.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Efficacy of lytic phage cocktails on staphylococcus aureus and pseudomonas aeruginosa in mixed-species planktonic cultures and biofilms
Kifelew, L. G., Warner, M. S., Morales, S., Thomas, N., Gordon, D. L., Mitchell, J. G. & Speck, P. G., 18 May 2020, In: Viruses. 12, 5, 16 p., 559.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Efficacy of phage cocktail AB-SA01 therapy in diabetic mouse wound infections caused by multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Kifelew, L. G., Warner, M. S., Morales, S., Vaughan, L., Woodman, R., Fitridge, R., Mitchell, J. G. & Speck, P., 9 Jul 2020, In: BMC Microbiology. 20, 204, 10 p., 204.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tenth scientific biennial meeting of the australasian virology society - AVS10 2019
Helbig, K. J., Bull, R. A., Ambrose, R., Beard, M. R., Blanchard, H., Böcking, T., Chua, B., Colmant, A. M. G., Crosse, K. M., Purcell, D. F. J., Fraser, J., Hayward, J. A., Hamilton, S. T., Husain, M., MacDiarmid, R., MacKenzie, J. M., Moseley, G. W., Nguyen, T. H. O., Quiñones-Mateu, M. E., Robinson, K. & 10 others, , Jun 2020, In: Viruses. 12, 6, 23 p., 621.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The microbial abundance dynamics of the paediatric oral cavity before and after sleep
Carlson-Jones, J. A. P., Kontos, A., Kennedy, D., Martin, J., Lushington, K., McKerral, J., Paterson, J. S., Smith, R. J., Dann, L. M., Speck, P. & Mitchell, J. G., 30 Mar 2020, In: Journal of Oral Microbiology. 12, 1, 13 p., 1741254.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review