Lewis C. E. Mason

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Lecturer in Microbiology, Kingston University

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Dr Lewis C. E. Mason is a Lecturer in Microbiology at Kingston University London. He is interested in understanding the evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance, particularly in sexually transmissible enteric infections.

Experience

• –present Lecturer in Microbiology, Kingston University
• 2021–2025 Honorary Researcher, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
• 2024–2025 Visiting Scientist, University of Cambridge
• 2024–2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Warwick

Education

• 2025 University of Liverpool, PhD Medical Microbiology
• 2021 University of Leeds, MSc Infection, Immunity, and Human Disease
• 2019 University of Bradford, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science

Publications

• 2026 Microbial Genomics, The natural history of the emergence of sexually transmissible shigellosis
• 2026 The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The spread of sexually transmissible drug-resistant shigellosis in England: a genomic epidemiology study
• 2025 The Lancet Microbe, Using demographics of patients to inform treatment of shigellosis in England
• 2024 npj antimicrobials and resistance, The re-emergence of sexually transmissible multidrug resistant Shigella flexneri 3a, England, United Kingdom
• 2023 Nature Communications, The evolution and international spread of extensively drug resistant Shigella sonnei
• 2022 Access Microbiology, Genomic epidemiology of the first London outbreak of antimicrobial resistant sexually transmitted shigellosis

Professional Memberships

• Royal Society of Biology [MRSB]
• Applied Microbiology International
• Microbiology Society
• Advance HE [AFHEA]

Honours

BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, AFHEA, MRSB, FIBMS

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