Stephen Baker
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
- NDM Oak Foundation Scientific Leadership Fellow, Vietnam
Enteric Infections
Stephen Baker is a Wellcome/Royal Society funded molecular microbiologist based at the Wellcome Programme (WT-MOP) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has been at the WT-MOP since November 2007 and is the head of the enteric infections research group. He holds an Oxford University research lecturer’s position. His group studies the microbiology, genetics, epidemiology and treatment of enteric infections in developing countries. Focal pathogens include Norovirus, Shigella spp. and SalmonellaTyphi, the causative agents of diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid fever, respectively.
Recent publications
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A fatal outbreak of neonatal sepsis caused by mcr-10 carrying Enterobacter kobei in a tertiary care hospital in Nepal.
Manandhar S. et al, (2022), The Journal of hospital infection
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The repurposing of Tebipenem pivoxil as alternative therapy for severe gastrointestinal infections caused by extensively drug resistant Shigella spp.
Fernández Alvaro E. et al, (2022), eLife, 11
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A2B-COVID: A Tool for Rapidly Evaluating Potential SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Events.
Illingworth CJR. et al, (2022), Molecular biology and evolution, 39
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Exploiting genomics to mitigate the public health impact of antimicrobial resistance.
Waddington C. et al, (2022), Genome medicine, 14
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Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
Murray CJL. et al, (2022), The Lancet, 399, 629 - 655