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Rapid Diagnosis and Biomedical Research

Providing a clinically supported service for the rapid diagnosis and management of infectious and genetic disease.

2013

Whole genome pyrosequencing of rare hepatitis C virus genotypes enhances subtype classification and identification of naturally occurring drug resistance variants

Newman RM, Kuntzen T, Weiner B, Berical A, Charlebois P, Kuiken C, Murphy DG, Simmonds P, Bennett P, Lennon NJ, Birren BW, Zody MC, Allen TM, Henn MR

J Infect Dis. 2013;208(1):17-31

2012

FTIR spectroscopy: A new diagnostic tool to aid DNA analysis from heated bone

Fredericks JD, Bennett P, Williams A, Rogers KD

Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2012 May;6(3):375-80
Epub 2011 Oct 2

2011

A Novel Hemotropic Mycoplasma (Hemoplasma) in a Patient With Hemolytic Anemia and Pyrexia

Jane A. Steer, Séverine Tasker, Emily N. Barker, Jørgen Jensen, Joanne Mitchell, Teresa Stocki, Victoria J. Chalker, Mike Hamon

Clin Infect Dis. 2011;53(11):e147-e151

Pneumocystis jirovecii, Mycoplasme pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae carriage rates in adult cystic fibrosis patients in West Midlands, England

R. Rashid, J. C. Brown, J. Whitehouse, N. Edward, C. G. Fink, C. G. Dowson, D. Honeybourne

Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, June 2011

A novel multilocus sequence typing scheme for the opportunistic pathogen Propionibacterium acnes and characterization of type I cell surface-associated antigens

McDowell A, Gao A, Barnard E, Fink C, Murray PI, Dowson CG, Nagy I, Lambert PA, Patrick S

Microbiology. 2011 Jul;157(Pt 7):1990-2003
Epub 2011 Apr 21

2009

Larval therapy for ulcers (VenUS II): a randomised controlled trial

Jo C Dumville, Gill Worthy, John Martin Bland, Nicky A Cullum, Christopher Dowson, Cynthia P Iglesias, Joanne L Mitchell, E Andrea Nelson, Marta Soares, David J Torgerson

Brit Med J. 2009;338:b773

Complete genomic sequences for hepatitis C virus subtypes 4b, 4c, 4d, 4g, 4k, 4l, 4m, 4n, 4o, 4p, 4q, 4r and 4t

Li C, Lu L, Wu X, Wang C, Bennett P, Lu T, Murphy D

J Gen Virol. 2009;90(Pt 8):1820-6

VenUS II: a randomised controlled trial of larval therapy in the management of leg ulcers

J Dumville, G Worthy, M Soares, J Bland, N Cullum, C Dowson, C Iglesias, D McCaughan, J Mitchell, E Nelson, D Torgerson

Health Technol Assess. 2009;13(55):1-206

2008

A set of reference sequences for the hepatitis C genotypes 4d, 4f, and 4k covering the full open reading frame

Kuntzen T, Berical A, Ndjomou J, Bennett P, Schneidewind A, Lennon N, Birren BW, Kuiken C, Henn MR, Simmonds P, Allen TM

J Med Virol. 2008;80(8):1370-8

2007

Proinflammatory activation of Toll-like receptor-2 during exposure of penicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae to ß-lactam antibiotics

Moore L, Gilbey A, Dowson C, Pridmore A, Dower S, Read R

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2007;59(1):35-42

Adaptation to human populations is revealed by within-host polymorphisms in HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus

Poon AF, Kosakovsky Pond SL, Bennett P, Richman DD, Leigh Brown AJ, Frost SD

PLoS Pathog. 2007;3(3):e45

2006

Incremental increase in fitness cost with increased beta-lactam resistance in pneumococci evaluated by competition in an infant rat nasal colonization model

Trzcinski K, Thompson CM, Gilbey AM, Dowson CG, Lipsitch M

J Infect Dis. 2006;193(9):1296-303