Imperial researchers are working to https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/jiayue.zhu09understand how resistance spreads between patients. 

Researchers in this field include: 

• Professor Mauricio Barahona: Predicting hospital-onset infections using dynamic networks of patient contacts and machine learning
• Dr Gabriel Birgand: Tracking AMR in nursing homes
• Professor Francis Drobniewski: Tracking resistance in the hospital environment
• Dr Elita Jauneikaite: Tracking spread of drug-resistant bacteria, mobile genetic elements between people in hospitals, mother-to-baby transmission 
• Professor James Seddon: Transmission of MDR-TB in Namibia using WGS and social network mapping
• Dr Anand Shah: Hospital-based transmission of antifungal resistant fungi
• Dr Matthew Siggins: factors influencing transmission of infectious disease
• Professor Robert Wilkinson: TB transmission
• Dr Nina Zhu: Underlying risk factors of infections from all settings in the community