antimicrobial resistance New preprint: looking at rifampicin-resistant subpopulations in clinical samples Philip Fowler, 10th April 202510th April 2025 Since clinical samples are usually grown in a MGIT tube for a while before some… Continue Reading
New grant: Ox4TB Philip Fowler, 17th March 202517th March 2025 Very pleased to announce that I am a co-investigator on the recently announced Oxford4TB project… Continue Reading
antimicrobial resistance Can medical microbiology become a big data science? Lessons from CRyPTIC Philip Fowler, 11th March 202511th March 2025 The CRyPTIC project ran from 2017 to around 2022 and in that time collected over… Continue Reading
New preprint: a deep learning model that can read 96-well broth micro dilution plates Philip Fowler, 23rd February 202523rd February 2025 The CRyPTIC project used bespoke 96-well broth microdilution plates to measure the minimum inhibitory concentrations… Continue Reading
New preprint: automatically building a better bedaquiline catalogue Philip Fowler, 31st January 202531st January 2025 A catalogue recording whether individual mutations confer resistance or not to specified antibiotics is a… Continue Reading
New preprint: comparing different genetics analysis pipelines for tuberculosis Philip Fowler, 13th January 202513th January 2025 Ruan Spies has done a careful systematic comparison of the current genetics pipelines that purport… Continue Reading