Professor Richard Birtles

Prof Richard Birtles

Chair in Biomedicine

University of Salford

R.J.Birtles@salford.ac.uk

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Richard’s work explores the strategies adopted by infectious agents, at the individual and population level, to persist in nature – focusing in particular on arthropod-transmitted microorganisms of public health and veterinary importance, including Bartonella and Anaplasma. Richard is part of a long-standing collaborative network including scientists at the Universities of Aberdeen, Liverpool and Nottingham, exploring the population dynamics of parasites in wild field vole populations.


Current projects
Antibiotic stewardship and tackling the rising problem of AMR in Uganda.
with Louise Ackers, Ian Goodhead and Chloe James


Selected works