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Position
Senior Research Officer,
Skin Pathogens Research Laboratory,
Tropical Emerging and Infectious Diseases Division
Contact
Menzies School of Health Research
PO Box 41096
Casuarina NT 0810, AUSTRALIA
Email: deborah.holt@menzies.edu.au
www.menzies.edu.au
Research interests
genetics, biotechnology, infectious diseases, scabies, immunology
Qualifications
PhD 2000 University of Sydney
B. App. Sc. 1992 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Five Most Significant Publications
Tong SYC, McDonald MI, Holt DC, Currie BJ. Global implications of the unique epidemiology of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Australia: Where has it come from, where is it heading? Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008;46:1871-1878.
Pasay C, Arlian L, Morgan M, Vyszenski-Moher D, Rose A, Holt D, Walton S, McCarthy J. High Resolution Melt analysis for the detection of a mutation associated with permethrin resistance in a population of scabies mites. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 2008;22:82-88.
Holt DC, Fischer K, Pizzutto S, Currie BJ, Walton SF, Kemp DJ. A multigene family of inactivated cysteine proteases in Sarcoptes scabiei. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2004;123:240-241.
Holt DC, Fischer K, Allen GE, Wilson D, Wilson P, Slade R, Currie BJ, Walton SF, Kemp DJ. Mechanisms for a novel immune evasion strategy in the scabies mite Sarcoptes scabiei: a multigene family of inactivated serine proteases. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2003;121:1419-1424.
Holt DC, Fischer K, Tchavtchitch M, Wilson DW, Hauquitz NE, Hawthorne PL, Gardiner DL, Trenholme KR, Kemp DJ. Clags in Plasmodium falciparum and other species of Plasmodium. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 2001;118:259-263.
Currently Held Grants
2007-2009: Queensland Health: CID: The mechanisms of acaricide resistance
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