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Martha Clokie

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we have clinical trials, phages won’t become mainstream as a medicine, and that’s where we’re aiming.(...) I get fairly regular emails from doctors and patients wanting phages. Doctors have gone from being completely disinterested to ‘give me the phages now’ (…) There are people who need phages now because they’re dying.”
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Clokie maintained bacteriophages were helping growing numbers of patients in compassionate use cases and could become routine for conditions like chronic UTIs and diabetic foot ulcers. Clokie stated “The risk from antibiotic resistance is dire and getting worse … I find it really shocking. Unless
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and the sequencing of various bacteriophages. She demonstrated that marine phages contain the genes responsible for photosynthesis, and that phages do not only exert pressure on the infection-survival mechanism of cyanobacteria but can acquire the genes of a bacteria's prey.
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can evolve into a new species, with a specific strand that is adapted to spread quickly in hospitals. The new species survives on the sugar-rich diets of Westerners and can evade common disinfectants.
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and simultaneously defend beneficial bacterial that are typically destroyed by antibiotics. The bacteriophages can be delivered orally and result in destruction of
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Nale, Janet Y.; Spencer, Janice; Hargreaves, Katherine R.; Buckley, Anthony M.; Trzepiński, Przemysław; Douce, Gillian R.; Clokie, Martha R. J. (2015).
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Molecular studies of Southern Hemisphere disjunction in three plant genera, Eucryphia, Griselinia and Coriaria
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Molecular studies of Southern Hemisphere disjunction in three plant genera, Eucryphia, Griselinia and Coriaria
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as a lecturer in 2007 and was promoted to Professor in 2016. She is interested in viruses known as
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Her research includes identifying specific phage combinations that can be used to destroy
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Mann, Nicholas H.; Cook, Annabel; Millard, Andrew; Bailey, Shaun; Clokie, Martha (2003).
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Bacteria-killing viruses could combat antibiotic resistance, says UK scientist
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and is one of the most valuable silks in the world. They are at risk from
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causes almost two fifths of diarrhoea associated with antibiotics in the
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bacterial disease that infects pigs and can be added to
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which can be used to treat disease. Her work involves
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that can be used to prevent bacterial infections in
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within two days. Clokie went on to demonstrate that
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University of Dundee
University of Edinburgh
University of Leicester
Microbiology
University of Leicester
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of Warwick
Thesis
Molecular studies of Southern Hemisphere disjunction in three plant genera, Eucryphia, Griselinia and Coriaria
www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/people/martha-clokie
Professor
Microbiology
University of Leicester
bacteriophages
pathogens
antimicrobials
biology
University of Dundee
Edinburgh
biodiversity
University of Edinburgh
Leicester
molecular ecology
University of Leicester
evolution
genera
Eucryphia
Griselinia
Coriaria
postdoctoral researcher

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