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2011

Boakes E, Kearns AM, Ganner M, Perry C, Warner M, Hill RL, Ellington MJ. Molecular diversity within CC22 meticllin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus encoding Panton-Valentine Leukocidin in England and Wales. Clin Micro Infect 2011;17:140-145.

Boakes E, Kearns AM, Ganner M, Perry C, Hill RL, Ellington MJ. Distinct bacteriophages encoding PVL among international clones of PVL-MRSA. J Clin Microbiol 2011, 49:684-692.

Cookson B, Bonten MJ, Mackenzie FM, Skov RL, Verbrugh HA, Tacconelli E. Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): screening and decolonisation. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2011 37:195-201.

Hornsey M, Loman N, Wareham DW, Ellington MJ, Pallen MJ, Turton JF, Underwood A, Gaulton T, Thomas CP, Doumith M, Livermore DM, Woodford N. Whole-genome comparison of two Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from a patient taken before and after tigecycline therapy. J Antimicrob Chemother 2011, in press.

Horsley A, Perry C, Martin K, Webb K, Turton J, Kenna D, Jones A. Burkholderia latens infection in Cystic Fibrosis. J. Cyst. Fibros 2011, in press.

Irfan S, Turton JF, Mehraj J, Siddiqui SZ, Haider S, Zafar A, Memon B, Afzal O, Hasan R. Molecular and epidemiological characterisation of clinical isolates of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from public and private sector intensive care units in Karachi, Pakistan. J Hosp Infect 2011, in press.

Lawson B, Malnick H, Pennycott TW, Macgregor SK, John SK, Duncan G, Hughes LA, Chantrey J, Cunningham AA. Acute necrotising pneumonitis associated with Suttonella ornithocola infection in tits (Paridae). Vet J 2011, 188:96-100.

Millership S, Cummins A, Irwin D, Kearns A, English P. Follow up of cases of PVL-positive Staphylococcus aureus is not worthwhile. J Infect 2011 62:234-235.

Monecke S, Coombs G, Shore AC, Coleman DC, Akpaka P, Borg M, Chow H, Ip M, Jatzwauk L, Jonas D, Kadlec K, Kearns A, Laurent F, O'Brien FG, Pearson J, Ruppelt A, Schwarz S, Scicluna E, Slickers P, Tan HL, Weber S, Ehricht R. A field guide to pandemic, epidemic and sporadic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS One 2011 6(4):e17936.

Petkar H, Li A, Bunce N, Duffy K, Malnick H, Shah JJ. Cellulosimicrobium funkei: First report of infection in a non-immunocompromised patient and useful phenotypic tests in differentiation from Cellulosimicrobium cellulans and Cellulosimicrobium terreum. J Clin Microbiol2011, 49:1175-1178.

Shet V, Gouliouris T, Brown NM, Turton JF, Zhang J, Woodford N. IMP metallo-ß-lactamase-producing clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae in the UK. J Antimicrob Chemother 2011, in press.

Turton JF, Baddal B, Perry C. Use of the accessory genome for characterization and typing of Acinetobacter baumannii. J. Clin Microbiol 2011, 49:1260-1266.

Turton JF, Mustafa N, Shah J, Hampton CV, Pike R, Kenna DT. Identification of Achromobacter xylosoxidans by detection of the bla_OXA-114-like gene intrinsic in this species. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2011, in press.

Wilson AP, Smyth D, Moore G, Singleton J, Jackson R, Gant V, Jeanes A, Shaw S, James E, Cooper B, Kafatos G, Cookson B, Singer M, Bellingan G. The impact of enhanced cleaning within the intensive care unit on contamination of the near-patient environment with hospital pathogens: A randomized crossover study in critical care units in two hospitals. Crit Care Med 2011, in press.

Woodford N, Turton JF, Livermore D. Multi-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: the role of high-risk clones in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance. FEMS Microbiol Revs Special Thematic Issue on Antibiotic Resistance (Teresa M. Coque and Fernando Baquero, eds.), 2011, in press.

Wong V, Levi K, Baddal B, Turton J, Boswell TC. Spread of Pseudomonas fluorescens due to contaminated drinking water in a bone marrow transplant unit. J Clin Microbiol 2011, in press.

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2010

Casey AL, Adams D, Karpanen TJ, Lambert PA, Cookson BD, Nightingale P, Miruszenko L, Shillam R, Christian P. Elliott TSJ.  The role of copper in the reduction of contamination of the hospital environment.  J Hosp Infect 2010;74;72-77.

Cookson BD, Hoffman P. Recommendation on skin disinfection before blood collection for transfusion purposes in “WHO guidelines on drawing blood: best practices in phlebotomy”. March 2010. Printed by the WHO Document Production Services, Geneva, Switzerland. ISBN 978 92 4 159922 1

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599221_eng.pdf

Ellington MJ, Hope R, Livermore DM, Kearns AM, Henderson K, Cookson BD, Pearson A, Johnson AP. Decline of EMRSA-16 amongst methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing bacteraemias in the UK between 2001 and 2007. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010;65:446-448

Ellington MJ, Ganner M, McCormick Smith I, Perry C, Cookson BD, Kearns AM. Panton-Valentine Leucocidin related disease in England and Wales. Clin Micro Infect 2010;16:86-88.

Ellington MJ, Ganner M, Warner M, Cookson BD, Kearns AM. Polyclonal multiply antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine Leucocidin in England. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010;65:46-50.

Ellington MJ, Ganner M, Warner M, Boakes E, Cookson BD, Hill RL, Kearns AM. First international spread and dissemination of the virulent Queensland community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain Clin Microbiol Infect 2010;16:1009–1012.

Grundmann H, Aanensen DM, van den Wijngaard CC, Spratt BG, Harmsen D, Friedrich AW for the European Staphylococcal Reference Laboratory Working Group. Geographic distribution of Staphylococcus aureus causing invasive infections in Europe: A Molecular-Epidemiological Analysis. (2010) PLoS Med 7(1): e1000215

Hill RLR, Kearns AM, Nash J, North SE, Pike R, Newson T, Woodford N, Calver R, Livermore DM. Linezolid-Resistant ST36 MRSA from Two Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Associated with Prolonged Linezolid Treatment. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010;65:442-445.

Johnson AP, Sharland M, Goodall CM, Blackburn R, Kearns AM, Gilbert R, Lamagni TL, Charlett A, Ganner M, Hill R, Cookson B, Livermore D, Wilson J, Cunney R, Rossney A, Duckworth G. Enhanced surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia in children in the UK and Ireland. Arch Dis Child. 2010;95:781-785.

Kock R, Becker K, Cookson B, Gemert-Pijnen J, Harbarth S, Kluytmans J, Mielke M, Peters G, Skov R, Struelens M, Tacconelli E, Navarro Torne A, Witte W, Friedrich A.  Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(41)pii=19688.

Kumarasamy KK, Toleman MA, Walsh TR, Bagaria J, Butt F, Balakrishnan R, Chaudhary U, Doumith M, Giske CG, Irfan S, Krishnan P, Kumar AV, Maharjan S, Mushtaq S, Noorie T, Paterson DL, Pearson A, Perry C, Pike R, Rao B, Ray U, Sarma JB, Sharma M, Sheridan E, Thirunarayan MA, Turton J, Upadhyay S, Warner M, Welfare W, Livermore DM, Woodford N. Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study. Lancet Infect Dis 2010;10:597-602.

Livermore DM, Hill RL, Thomson H, Charlett A, Turton JF, Pike R, Patel BC, Manuel R, Gillespie S, Balakrishnan I, Barrett SP, Cumberland N, Twagira M; C-MRAB Study Group. 2010. Antimicrobial treatment and clinical outcome for infections with carbapenem- and multiply-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii around London. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2010;35:19-24.

Ludlam HA, Swayne RL, Kearns AM, Brown DFJ, Howard JC, Gunning K, Burnstein R, Nicholl CG, Brown NM. Evidence from a UK Teaching Hospital that MRSA is Primarily Transmitted by the Hands of Healthcare Workers. J Hosp Infect 2010;74:296-299.

Meyer B, Cookson B. Does microbial resistance or adaptation to biocides create a hazard in infection prevention and control? J Hosp Infect 2010; 76: 200-205.

Neylon O, O'Connell NH, Slevin B, Powell J, Monahan R, Boyle L, Whyte D, Mannix M, McElligott F, Kearns AM, Philip RK. Neonatal staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome: clinical and outbreak containment review. Eur J Pediatr. 2010;169:1503-1509.

Orendi JM, Coetzee N, Ellington MJ, Boakes E, Cookson BD, Hardy KJ, Hawkey PM, Kearns AM. Community and Nosocomial Transmission of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: implications for healthcare. J Hosp Infect 2010;75:258-64

Otter JA, Kearns AM, French GL, Ellington MJ. Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) encoding phage and gene sequence vary with lineage in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Micro Infect 2010;16:68-73

Teare L, Shelley OP, Millership S, Kearns A. Outbreak of Panton-Valentine Leucocidin-positive Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a regional burns unit. J Hosp Infect 2010;76:220-224.

Tomás M, Doumith M, Warner M, Turton JF, Beceiro A, Bou G, Livermore DM, Woodford N. 2010. Efflux pumps, OprD porin, AmpC beta-lactamase, and multiresistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis patients. Antimicrob Agents Chemother2010;54:2219-2224.

Turton JF, Perry C, Elgohari S, Hampton CV. PCR characterisation and typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae using capsular type-specific, variable number tandem repeat, and virulence gene targets. J Med Microbiol 2010;59:541-547.

Turton JF, Turton SE, Yearwood L, Yarde S, Kaufmann ME, Pitt TL. Evaluation of a nine-locus variable-number tandem-repeat scheme for typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Clin Microbiol Infect 2010;16:1111-1116.

Turton JF, Shah J, Ozongwu C, Pike R. 2010. Incidence of Acinetobacter species Other than A. baumannii among Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter: Evidence for Emerging Species. J Clin Microbiol 2010;48;1445-1449.

Webster DP, Gaulton T, Woodford N, Pike R, Turton J, Perry C, Bowler IC. 2010. Emergence of carbapenem resistance due to porin loss in an extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strain during meropenem therapy. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2010;36:575-576.

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2009

Cooke FJ, Gkrania-Klotsas E, Howard JC, Stone M, Kearns AM,  Ganner M, Carmichael J, Brown NM. Clinical, Molecular and Epidemiological Description of a Cluster of Community-associated Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia Infections in Injecting Drug Users. Clin Micro Infect (In press).

Cunnington A, Brick T, Cooper M, Danin J, Hunt D, Jeanes A, Kearns A, Lyall H, Nolan M. Severe invasive disease in children caused by Panton-Valentine Leucocidin positive Staphylococcus aureus. Submitted to J Infect 2009;59:28-36.

Ellington MJ, Perry C, Ganner M, Warner M, McCormick Smith I, Hill RL, Shallcross L, Khatri K, Sabersheikh S, Holmes A, Cookson BD, Kearns AM. Community Associated MRSA with the PVL toxin in England and Wales: Clinical and molecular epidemiology. Eur J Clin Micro Inf Dis (In press).

Elston JWT, Meigh J, Kearns AM, Jordan-Owers N, Newton A, Meigh RE, Barlow G. Community-Associated MRSA: Epidemiology, microbiology and clinical impact in East Yorkshire. J Hosp Infect (In press).

Lakshani Rajakaruna, Hallas G, Dare D, Sutton H, Molenaar L, Encheva V, Culak R, Innes I, Ball G, Sefton AM, Eydmann M, Kearns AM, Shah HN. High throughput identification of clinical isolates of  Staphylococcus aureus using MALDI-TOF-MS of intact cells. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 2009;9:507-513.

Loeffler A, Kearns AM, Ellington MJ, Smith LJ, Unt VE, Lindsay JA, Pfeiffer DU, Lloyd DH. First isolation of MRSA ST398 from UK animals: a new challenge for infection control teams? J Hosp Infect 2009;72:269-271.

Narayan SA, Kool JL, Vakololoma M, Steer AC, Mejia A, Drake A, Jenney A, Turton JF, Kado J, Tikoduadua L. Investigation and control of an outbreak of Enterobacter aerogenes bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit in Fiji. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 30:797-800.

Turton JF, Matos J, Kaufmann ME, Pitt TL. Variable number tandem repeat loci providing discrimination within widespread genotypes of Acinetobacter baumannii. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 28:499-507.

Turton JF, O'Brien E, Megson B, Kaufmann ME, Pitt TL. 2009. Strains of Burkholderia cenocepacia genomovar IIIA possessing the cblA gene that are distinct from ET12. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 64:94-97.

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