Transmission of group A streptococci in children- brewing up a storm?
Professor Shiranee Sriskandan
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Monday, 22 April 2024, 1pm to 2pm
BDI/OxPop Building LG seminar rooms
Shiranee is Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London and a Clinical Infectious Diseases consultant at Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals. She leads the Gram Positive Pathogenesis research group within the Department of Infectious Disease, and is clinical director of Imperial’s Centre for Bacteriology Resistance Biology. Her group works on the mechanisms that allow Streptococcus pyogenes to cause extreme clinical phenotypes in individuals and populations. Transmission is a new research area, sparked by a recognition of the intensity of spread that can occur.
University members only.
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