Princy Shoby

Princy’s research focuses on in-depth phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of novel obligately lytic phages as a therapeutic alternative for invasive infections of Enterococcus faecium a high-priority bacterium with multidrug resistance. She also investigates the prophages present in clinical isolates of E. faecium.

Publications

Coombs G, Daley D, Mamoottil Sudeep S, Li X, Shoby P, Torres C, Mowlaboccus S (2025)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Surveillance Outcome Program (ASSOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2024.

Communicable Disease Intelligence 

Fahriani M, Coombs GW, Shoby P, Hood H, Daley DA, Mullally CA, Mowlaboccus S (2025)

Accurate identification of Enterococcus lactis causing bacteraemia by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry.

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Coombs GW, Daley DA, Shoby P, Mamoottil Sudeep S, Mowlaboccus S (2024)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance. Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Surveillance Outcome Program (ASSOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2023.

Communicable Disease Intelligence

Coombs GW, Daley DA, Shoby P, Form A, Mowlaboccus S (2024)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance. Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Surveillance Outcome Program (AESOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2023.

Communicable Disease Intelligence 

Lim C, Coombs GW, Daley DA, Shoby P, Mowlaboccus S (2024)

Whole Genome Sequencing Identifies MprF Mutations in a Genetically Diverse Population of Daptomycin Non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in Australia.

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Lim C, Mowlaboccus S, Daley DA, Shoby P, Coombs GW (2024)

Daptomycin non-susceptible Staphylococcus argenteus isolated from a patient without prior antibiotic exposure.

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Ramsay JP, Parahitiyawa N, Mowlaboccus S, Mullally CA, Yee NWT, Shoby P, Colombi E, Tan HL, Pearson JC, Coombs GW (2023)

Genomic characterization of a unique Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage increasingly impacting on Australian indigenous communities.

Microbial Genomics

Coombs GW, Daley DA, Shoby P, Mowlaboccus S (2022)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Surveillance Outcome Program (AESOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2022.

Communicable Disease Intelligence 

Coombs GW, Daley DA, Shoby P, Mowlaboccus S (2022)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Surveillance Outcome Program (ASSOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2022.

Communicable Disease Intelligence 

Mowlaboccus S, Daley DA, Shoby P, Coombs GW (2022)

Molecular confirmation of Escherichia coli classified as fosfomycin-resistant by the revised EUCAST MIC breakpoint.

Pathology

Coombs GW, Daley DA, Yee NWT, Shoby P, Mowlaboccus S (2022)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme (ASSOP) Annual Report 2020.

Communicable Disease Intelligence 

Coombs GW, Daley DA, Yee NWT, Shoby P, Mowlaboccus S (2022)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme (AESOP) Annual Report 2020.

Communicable Disease Intelligence

Coombs GW, Daley D, Shoby P, Yee NWT, Robinson JO, Murray R, Korman TM, Warner MS, Papanaoum K, Derrington P, Horvath R, Jenney A, Spelman D, Mowlaboccus S (2022)

Genomic characterisation of CC398 MRSA causing severe disease in Australia.

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Coombs GW, Yee NWT, Daley D, Bennett CM, Robinson JO, Stegger M, Shoby P, Mowlaboccus S (2022)

Molecular Epidemiology of Penicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia in Australia and Reliability of Diagnostic Phenotypic Susceptibility Methods to Detect Penicillin Susceptibility.

Microorganisms