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Dr W Gerald Salt
(Ged Salt)
Senior Fellow (Medical Microbiology and Drug Delivery Systems)
BPharm, PhD, MRPharmS, CBiol, MIBiol
Telephone: 01509 222582
EMail: W.G.Salt@lboro.ac.uk
Teaching Provision
Specialist aspects of pharmaceutical and medical microbiology; principles
underlying the formulation, manufacture and evaluation of medicinal products,
particularly solid oral dosage forms.
Research Interests
Drug-microorganism interactions:
a. infectious diseases, aetiology, pathology of infection and chemotherapy;
b. antimicrobial agents mode of action (including uptake) studies, factors
affecting (including metabolism); synthetic and naturally occurring novel
compounds;
c. microorganisms in assay procedures, factors affecting, modified and
novel assay techniques; microbial responses to non-antibiotics, significance
and possible use in drug action/toxicity screening;
d. microbial contamination of pharmaceutical and food products, detection
and significance; product preservation and evaluation.
Selected Publications
1. Preliminary Investigations of Some Derivatives of Oxamniquine. Karekezi,
C. W., Lucas, P. D., Marples, B. A. and Salt, W. G. J.Chemother.
1995, 7, 133-135.
2. Aspects of the Mode of Action of Pyrithione Against Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Khattar, M. M. and Salt, W. G. J.Chemother. 1993, 5(S1), 175-177.
3. Biocide Uptake by Bacteria. Salt, W. G. and Wiseman, D. In ‘Mechanisms
of Action of Chemical Biocides: their study and exploitation’ Edit.
Denyer, S. P. and Hugo, W. B., 1992, pp.65-88 Blackwell Publ. London.
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