European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Meet the Editor in Chief

L. Poirel (Fribourg, Switzerland)

Dr Laurent Poirel is Associate Professor at the Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research interests emerging mechanisms of resistance to ß-lactams, polymyxins, and quinolones in Gram-negative rods, either in human and veterinary medicine. He is specialized on the genetics of acquisition of resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii, plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance, and polymyxin resistance determinants in Enterobacteriaceae. He has co-invented a series of rapid diagnostic tests for detection of emerging resistance traits. He is the author of 530 publications in international journals.