David Negus
Microbiologist, lover of phage and predatory bacteria. Senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. Department of prokaryotes culturable.
- 🚨 New Research Alert! Our team has discovered two new bacteriophages that target Serratia spp.—a major cause of hospital‑associated infections and a growing antibiotic‑resistance threat. 📄 Open‑access article in Journal of Applied Microbiology: doi.org/10.1093/jambio/lxag011
- What we found: • Two novel phages, Sm10b_1 and Sm12, isolated from rivers • Both show broad activity against clinical Serratia strains • Sm10b_1 belongs to a new genus • In wax‑moth larvae, phage treatment increased survival from 0% → 67% for S. marcescens and 7% → 70% for S. odorifera infections
- Congratulations to Mia Horton and Yashwani Malik who collected all the data during their MRes projects!
