Dr Mbanga is a career academic and researcher in the Department of Applied Biology and Biochemistry at the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe and the Antimicrobial Research Unit (ARU), College of Health Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His research interests include surveillance of antibiotic resistance using phenotypic and molecular methods across the One Health continuum. Work has focused on indicator organisms and some ESKAPEEc (Enterobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumaunii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus spp and Escherichia coli). pathogens. Molecular methods have included PCR, gene sequencing, Whole Genome Sequencing, metagenomics & bioinformatics analysis. He currently serves as a Reference group member, Water Research Commission, South Africa, and has served as a reviewer for grant applications for the Merian Fund South Africa – Netherlands (Dutch Research Council (NWO) and National Research Foundation (NRF).
Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SerKv94AAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6592-2338
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joshua-Mbanga-2
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