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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Antimicrobial resistance in commensal Escherichia coli from humans and chickens in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam is driven by antimicrobial usage and potential cross-species transmission.
Nhung NT. et al, (2022), JAC-antimicrobial resistance, 4
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Genomic epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance and virulence factors of Enterobacter cloacae complex causing potential community-onset bloodstream infections in a tertiary care hospital of Nepal.
Manandhar S. et al, (2022), JAC Antimicrob Resist, 4
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Mobility of antimicrobial resistance across serovars and disease presentations in non-typhoidal Salmonella from animals and humans in Vietnam.
Bloomfield S. et al, (2022), Microbial genomics, 8
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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