Search Results - "CLARKE, Stuart C"
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Secondary Bacterial Infections Associated with Influenza Pandemics
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (23-06-2017)“…Lower and upper respiratory infections are the fourth highest cause of global mortality (Lozano et al., 2012). Epidemic and pandemic outbreaks of respiratory…”
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Longitudinal profiling of the lung microbiome in the AERIS study demonstrates repeatability of bacterial and eosinophilic COPD exacerbations
Published in Thorax (01-05-2018)“…Alterations in the composition of the lung microbiome associated with adverse clinical outcomes, known as dysbiosis, have been implicated with disease severity…”
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Low-Dose Nitric Oxide as Targeted Anti-biofilm Adjunctive Therapy to Treat Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in Cystic Fibrosis
Published in Molecular therapy (06-09-2017)“…Despite aggressive antibiotic therapy, bronchopulmonary colonization by Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes persistent morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis…”
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Changes in serotype prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Southampton, UK between 2006 and 2018
Published in Scientific reports (03-08-2022)“…Streptococcus pneumoniae continues to cause significant disease burden. Whilst pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) have substantially reduced this burden,…”
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Respiratory carriage of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae by indigenous populations of Malaysia
Published in BMC genomics (17-04-2024)“…Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae that is classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a Priority One ESKAPE pathogen. South…”
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Relationships between Mucosal Antibodies, Non-Typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) Infection and Airway Inflammation in COPD
Published in PloS one (29-11-2016)“…Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a key pathogen in COPD, being associated with airway inflammation and risk of exacerbation. Why some patients are…”
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Risk factor profiles and clinical outcomes for children and adults with pneumococcal infections in Singapore: A need to expand vaccination policy?
Published in PloS one (16-10-2019)“…Invasive pneumococcal infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide despite the availability of pneumococcal vaccines. The aim of this study…”
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Multicentre case-control study of pneumococcal infections among children with pneumonia in Peninsular Malaysia (MY-Pneumo): a study protocol
Published in BMC public health (20-08-2024)“…S. pneumoniae (SPN) is the most common cause of pneumonia. The disease can be effectively prevented through immunisation. Since December 2020, the Malaysian…”
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Impact of Meningococcal Serogroup C Conjugate Vaccines on Carriage and Herd Immunity
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (01-03-2008)“…Background. In 1999, meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MCC) vaccines were introduced in the United Kingdom for those under 19 years of age. The impact of…”
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Pronounced metabolic changes in adaptation to biofilm growth by Streptococcus pneumoniae
Published in PloS one (04-09-2014)“…Streptococcus pneumoniae accounts for a significant global burden of morbidity and mortality and biofilm development is increasingly recognised as important…”
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Acinetobacter spp. Infections in Malaysia: A Review of Antimicrobial Resistance Trends, Mechanisms and Epidemiology
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (12-12-2017)“…spp. are important nosocomial pathogens, in particular the - complex, which have become a global public health threat due to increasing resistance to…”
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Investigation of upper respiratory carriage of bacterial pathogens among university students in Kampar, Malaysia
Published in Tropical medicine and infectious disease (08-05-2023)“…The carriage of bacterial pathogens in the human upper respiratory tract (URT) is associated with a risk of invasive respiratory tract infections, but the…”
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Meningococcal carriage in adolescents in the United Kingdom to inform timing of an adolescent vaccination strategy
Published in The Journal of infection (01-07-2015)“…Summary Objectives Recent development of serogroup B meningococcal (MenB) vaccines highlights the importance of pharyngeal carriage data, particularly in…”
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Non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 transiently reduced pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae carriage in a cross-sectional pediatric cohort in Southampton, UK
Published in Microbiology spectrum (06-08-2024)“…The Southampton pneumococcal carriage study of children under 5 years old continued during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Here, we present…”
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Relationship of CT-quantified emphysema, small airways disease and bronchial wall dimensions with physiological, inflammatory and infective measures in COPD
Published in Respiratory research (20-02-2018)“…COPD is a complex, heterogeneous disease characterised by progressive development of airflow limitation. Spirometry provides little information about key…”
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Impact of radiologically stratified exacerbations: insights into pneumonia aetiology in COPD
Published in Respiratory research (28-07-2018)“…COPD patients have increased risk of developing pneumonia, which is associated with poor outcomes. It can be symptomatically indistinguishable from…”
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Intracellular residency of Staphylococcus aureus within mast cells in nasal polyps: A novel observation
Published in Journal of allergy and clinical immunology (01-06-2015)“…MCs appear to play an important role in promoting innate immunity against microbial pathogens.8 Through activation of CD8+ T cells, MCs possess the ability to…”
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Complete Genome Sequencing of Acinetobacter baumannii AC1633 and Acinetobacter nosocomialis AC1530 Unveils a Large Multidrug-Resistant Plasmid Encoding the NDM-1 and OXA-58 Carbapenemases
Published in mSphere (27-01-2021)“…Carbapenem-resistant spp. are considered priority drug-resistant human-pathogenic bacteria. The genomes of two carbapenem-resistant spp. clinical isolates…”
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Global funding trends for malaria research in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic analysis
Published in The Lancet global health (01-08-2017)“…Total domestic and international funding for malaria is inadequate to achieve WHO global targets in burden reduction by 2030. We describe the trends of…”
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A brief history of and future prospects for pneumococcal vaccination in Malaysia
Published in Pneumonia (25-08-2023)“…Pneumococcal pneumonia remains a significant global public health issue. Malaysia has recently added the 10 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to its…”
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