Owen Spiller

Owen Spiller

Head of Medical Microbiology, Cardiff University

Currently the lead for investigations of Gram-positive infections in neonatal sepsis for Ineos Oxford Institute collaborative consortium. Honorary Consulting Microbiologist for UK Health Security Agency as my laboratory also currently serves as the UK reference laboratory for determining antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Ureaplasma and Mycoplasma clinical infections.

Articles by: Owen Spiller

A Black woman holds a baby close to her chest

Newborns are colonized with antibiotic resistant bacteria

By Kirsty Sands, Edward AR Portal, Owen Spiller, Timothy R Walsh published

Babies in Nigeria are testing positive for bacteria resistant to colistin, though it's not clear whether they pick it up in utero, from their mothers, or from somewhere in the hospital.