Margo Diricks
Margo Diricks is postdoctoral researcher and bioinformatics research scientist in the Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology group at the Research Center Borstel, Germany. She is interested in microbiology, antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology of mycobacteria and other emerging lung pathogens. Currently, she is involved in different projects regarding molecular typing of bacteria, such as Haemophilus influenzae and Mycobacterium abscessus. For the latter, she developed a cgMLST scheme to delineate global population structure and transmission and is curator of the publicly available M. abscessus 7-loci MLST scheme at pubmlst.org.
Publications
Publications
Clinical and genomic features of Mycobacterium avium complex: a multi-national European study
Clinical and genomic features of Mycobacterium avium complex: a multi-national European study
Genomic diversity and clinical relevance of Mycobacterium simiae.
Genomic diversity and clinical relevance of Mycobacterium simiae
Clinical characteristics and outcome of Mycobacterium chimaera infections after cardiac surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis of 180 heater-cooler unit associated cases.
A systematic review and meta-analysis on HCU-associated M. chimaera infections.
Delineating Mycobacterium abscessus population structure and transmission employing high-resolution core genome multilocus sequence typing
cgMLST typing scheme for M. abscessus.
Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium abscessus Isolates Recovered from German Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Molecular epidemiology of M. abscessus in German CF patients.