Sharon Peacock

Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand

Head of Microbiology, Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme; Senior Clinical Research Scientist, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford; Honorary Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Batchelor of Medicine, 1988, University of Southampton; MRCP, 1991, Royal College of Physicians, London; MSc Medical Microbiology, 1994, University of London; MRCPath, 1997, Royal College of Pathologists, London; FRCP, 2002, Royal College of Physicians, London; PhD, 2003, Oxford University and Open University; FRCPath, 2005, Royal College of Pathologists; MRC Advisory Board, 2004.

Research interests: Epidemiology, basic and molecular diagnosis, antimicrobial treatment and clinical management of tropical infectious diseases including melioidosis, leptospirosis and scrub typhus. Understanding the population genetic structure of Burkholderia pseudomallei, Orientia tsutsugamushi and pathogenic leptospires, and the relationship between this and disease. Mechanisms of Burkholderia pseudomallei pathogenesis. Diagnosis and management of Staphylococcus aureus infection.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Infectious Diseases > Bacterial Infections (since 15 November 2005)

Sharon Peacock is a Section Head for Bacterial Infections, part of the INFECTIOUS DISEASES Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

All recent recommendations

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  Virulence of clinical and environmental isolates of Burkholderia oklahomensis and Burkholderia thailandensis in hamsters and mice.
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  Assessing the reliability of eBURST using simulated populations with known ancestry.
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  VNTR analysis of selected outbreaks of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Australia.
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  Functional genetic analysis reveals a 2-Alkyl-4-quinolone signaling system in the human pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei and related bacteria.
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  Genomic patterns of pathogen evolution revealed by comparison of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, to avirulent Burkholderia thailandensis.
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