Professor Tim Stinear

Scientific Director, Doherty Applied Microbial Genomics Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Is this the end for alcohol handwash in hospitals?

Alcohol handwash is becoming less effective against some strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but it doesn’t mean we stop sanitising our hands

Health & Medicine

The science behind Victoria’s “flesh-eating bacteria”

As the number of Buruli ulcer cases linked to Mycobacterium ulcerans continues to rise in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, we look at the science behind the spread of the microbe