The Project for Determining the Outbreak Mechanisms and Development of a Surveillance Model for Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

A Vietnamese Researcher Got Excellent Poster Presentation Award

March 28^th, 2014, Ms. Hoang Hoai Phuong was awarded by Japanese Society for Bacteriology for here excellent presentation at the 87^th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Bacteriology held at Tokyo. The title of her presentation is "The effect of cefoperazone on intestinal colonization by ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in mice"*, which shows a mouse model examining the effect of antibiotics on intestinal colonization of a ESBL-producing E. coli. Ms. Phuong, who is from Institute of Hygiene and Public Health HCMC, has been taking a PhD course under Prof. Yamasaki’s supervision at Osaka Prefectural University since April 2013. She is one of core Vietnamese microbiologists in the Project and expected to contribute her knowledge and skills to multi-drug resistant bacteria research in Vietnam.

*Authors：Hoai Phuong Hoang¹, Noritomo Yasuda¹, Itaru Hirai², Yoshimasa Yamamoto³, Sharda Prasad Awasthi¹, Atsushi Hinenoya¹, Shinji Yamasaki¹

¹Department of Veterinary Science, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, ²Faculty of Medicine, Ryukyu University, ³Global Collaboration Center, Osaka University