Azra Pachenari
Lecturer
Department: School of Health and Social Sciences
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 5115
- E-mail: a.pachenari@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
BSc MSc PhD
Research Interests
- Gut microbiology
- Relationship between diet, lifestyle and gut microbiota
- Relationship between diseases and gut microbiota
- Probiotics
- Antibiotic resistance
Teaching Interests
- Medical Microbiology
- Food Microbiology
- Gut microbiology
- Probiotics
- Antibiotic resistance
Biography
Recent Publications
- Pachenari, A., Conway, P.L., Playne, M.J. (2002) In-vivo selection of a strain of Bifidobacterium with a high potential to colonise the GI tract of mice and studying its in-vitro characteristics. Bioscience and Microflora Vol. 21 (2) 1-8.
- Pachenari, A., Conway, P.L., Playne, M.J. (2001) Bifidus-blood agar a differentiating medium for isolation and enumeration of bifidobacteria from faecal samples. Bioscience and Microflora Vol. 20 (3) 85-88.
- Busta, F.F., A. Pachenari, W. Wang, J. Sui, M.J. O'Shaughnessy L.J. Brady (1999) Probiotics and prebiotics, a coordinated ecosystem approach. In: Food Microbiology and Food Safety into the Next Millenium, ed. A.C.J. Tuijtelaars, R.A. Samson, F. M Rombouts S. Notermans, Foundation Food Micro 99, Zeist, Netherlands, pp. 831-833.
