Dr Refath Farzana

Research student, Infection & Immunity, School of Medicine

: farzanar@cardiff.ac.uk

Research
Publications

Thesis

A deep DNA sequencing approach to understanding the risks and clinical burden of Multi-drug resistant enterobacteriaceae infections in a Hospital Setting of Bangladesh

2023

Farzana, R. et al. 2023. Genomic insights into the mechanism of carbapenem resistance dissemination in Enterobacterales from a tertiary public heath setting in South Asia. Clinical Infectious Diseases 76(1), pp. 119-133. (10.1093/cid/ciac287)

2022

Farzana, R., Swedberg, G., Giske, C. G. and Hasan, B. 2022. Molecular and genetic characterization of emerging carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii strains from patients and hospital environments in Bangladesh. Infection Prevention in Practice 4(2), article number: 100215. (10.1016/j.infpip.2022.100215)

2021

Thomson, K. M. et al. 2021. Effects of antibiotic resistance, drug target attainment, bacterial pathogenicity and virulence, and antibiotic access and affordability on outcomes in neonatal sepsis: an international microbiology and drug evaluation prospective substudy (BARNARDS). The Lancet Infectious Diseases 21(12), pp. 1677-1688. (10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00050-5)
Martins, W. M. B. S. et al. 2021. BKC-2, a new BKC variant detected in MCR-9.1-producing Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. xiangfangensis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 65(3), article number: e01193-20. (10.1128/AAC.01193-20)

2020

Farzana, R. et al. 2020. Emergence of mobile colistin resistance (mcr-8) in a highly successful Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 15 clone from clinical infections in Bangladesh. mSphere 5(2), article number: e00023-20. (10.1128/mSphere.00023-20)
Farzana, R. et al. 2020. Molecular and epidemiological analysis of a Burkholderia cepacia sepsis outbreak from a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14(4), article number: e0008200. (10.1371/journal.pntd.0008200)
Farzana, R. 2020. A genomic approach to understanding the molecular epidemiology and clinical burden of multi-drug resistant Enterobacterale Infections in Bangladesh. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

2019

Farzana, R. et al. 2019. Emergence of mcr-1 mediated colistin resistant Escherichia coli from a hospitalized patient in Bangladesh. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 13(8), pp. 773-776. (10.3855/jidc.11541)
Farzana, R. et al. 2019. Outbreak of hypervirulent multi-drug resistant Klebsiella variicola causing high mortality in neonates in Bangladesh. Clinical Infectious Diseases 7, pp. 1225-1227. (10.1093/cid/ciy778)