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Jonas Hofmann-Eifler
Researcher at Ifakara Health Institute
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Citations - 85
Jonas Hofmann-Eifler is an academic researcher from Ifakara Health Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Drug resistance & Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 72 citations.
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Emergence of trimethoprim resistance gene dfrG in Staphylococcus aureus causing human infection and colonization in sub-Saharan Africa and its import to Europe
Dennis Nurjadi,Adesola Olalekan,Franziska Layer,Adebayo Shittu,Abraham Alabi,Beniam Ghebremedhin,Frieder Schaumburg,Jonas Hofmann-Eifler,Perry J.J. van Genderen,Eric Caumes,R. Fleck,Frank P. Mockenhaupt,Mathias Herrmann,Winfried V. Kern,Salim Abdulla,Martin P. Grobusch,Peter G. Kremsner,Christiane Wolz,Philipp Zanger +18 more
TL;DR: dfrG, previously perceived to be an uncommon cause of trimethoprim resistance in human S. aureus, is widespread in Africa and abundant in imported S.Aureus and may foreshadow the loss of trimetrim/sulfamethoxazole for the empirical treatment of SSTIs caused by community-associated MRSA.