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2007 publications


Alzweiri M, Watson DG, Robertson C, Sills GJ, Parkinson P (2007) Comparison of different water-miscible solvents for the preparation of plasma and urine samples in metabolic profiling studies.  Talanta
Anderson, R., Steel, H. C., Cockeran, R., Smith, A. M., von Gottberg, A., de Gouveia, L., Brink, A., Klugman, K. P., Mitchell, T. J., and Feldman, C. 2007 Clarithromycin alone and in combination with ceftriaxone inhibits the production of pneumolysin by both macrolide-susceptible and macrolide-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae Journal Of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 59, 2, 224-229
Anderson, R., Steel, H. C., Cockeran, R., von Gottberg, A., de Gouveia, L., Klugman, K. P., Mitchell, T. J., and Feldman, C. 2007 Comparison of the effects of macrolides, amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, doxycycline, tobramycin and fluoroquinolones, on the production of pneumolysin by Streptococcus pneumoniae in vitro Journal Of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 60, 5, 1155-1158

Brady RRW, Fraser SJ, Dunlop MG, Paterson-Brown S, Gibb PA. Bacterial Contamination of Mobile Communication Devices in the Operative Environment. 2007  J Hosp Infect Aug;66(4):397-8. PMID: 17573157.


Brady RRW, Kalima P­­, Wilson R.G., Damani NN, Dunlop MG. Bacterial Contamination of Hospital Bed Control Handsets in a Surgical Setting; A Potential Marker of Contamination of the Healthcare Environement. 2007 oct;89(7):656-660 Annals RCS Eng.

Braun, J. S., Hoffmann, O., Schickhaus, M., Freyer, D., Dagand, E., Bermpohl, D., Mitchell, T. J., Bechmann, I., and Weber, J. R. 2007 Pneumolysin causes neuronal cell death through mitochondrial damage Infection and Immunity 75, 9, 4245-4254
Cameron JC, Friederichs V, Robertson C (2007) Vaccine uptake: new tools for investigating changes in age distribution and predicting final values. Vaccine 25: 6078-6085
Cowan, G. J. M., Atkins, H. S., Johnson, L. K., Titball, R. W., and Mitchell, T. J. 2007 Immunisation with anthrolysin O or a genetic toxoid protects against challenge with the toxin but not against Bacillus anthracis Vaccine 25, 41, 7197-7205
Cowden JM and Reilly J (2007) The surveillance of Foodborne disease and its application in healthcare settings Blackwell Science

Hendriksen, W. T., Silva, N., Bootsma, H. J., Blue, C. E., Paterson, G. K., Kerr, A. R., de Jong, A., Kuipers, O. P., Hermans, P. W. M., and Mitchell, T. J. 2007 Regulation of gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae by response regulator 09 is strain dependent Journal of Bacteriology 189, 4, 1382-1389
Iliev, A. I., Djannatian, J. R., Nau, R., Mitchell, T. J., and Wouters, F. S. 2007 Cholesterol-dependent actin remodeling via RhoA and Rac1 activation by the Streptococcus pneumoniae toxin pneumolysin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, 8, 2897-2902
Jefferies, J. M. C., Johnston, C. H. G., Kirkham, L. A. S., Cowan, G. J. M., Ross, K. S., Smith, A., Clarke, S. C., Brueggemann, A. B., George, R. C., Pichon, B., Pluschke, G., Pfluger, V., and Mitchell, T. J. 2007 Presence of nonhemolytic pneumolysin in serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae associated with disease outbreaks Journal of Infectious Diseases 196, 6, 936-944
McNeish J, McGowan, Reilly J (2007) Post discharge surgical site infection surveillance by automated telephony. Journal of Hospital Infection July 66
(3): 232-6
Meyer N, McMenamin J, Robertson C, Donaghy M, Allardice G, Cooper D (2007) A multi-data source surveillance system to detect a bioterrorism attack during the G8 Summit in Scotland. Epidemiol Infect :1-10.: 1-10

E. Mowat, J. Butcher, S. Lang, C. Williams and G. Ramage Development of a simple model for studying the effects of antifungal agents on multicellular communities of Aspergillus fumigatus  J Med Microbiol ; 56: 1205-1212


Reilly J., Stewart S., Allardice, G., Noone A., Robertson, C., Walker A., and Coubrough S. NHS Scotland national HAI prevalence survey.  2007. Glasgow, Health Protection Scotland. Ref Type: Report
Romero, P., Llull, D., Garcia, E., Mitchell, T. J., Lopez, R., and Moscoso, M. 2007 Isolation and characterization of a new plasmid pSpnP1 from a multidrug-resistant clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae Plasmid 58, 1, 51-60
Spreer, A., von Rüden, C., Mitchell, T. J., Eiffert, H., and Nau, R. 2007 Influence of subinhibitory concentrations of protein-synthesis-inhibiting antibiotics on production and release of the pneumococcal virulence factor pneumolysin in vitro Chemotherapy 53, 5, 327-331
White LF, Dancer SJ, Robertson C (2007) A microbiological evaluation of hospital cleaning methods. Int J Environ Health Res 17: 285-295
Witzenrath, M., Gutbier, B., Owen, J. S., Schmeck, B., Mitchell, T. J., Mayer, K., Thomas, M. J., Ishii, S., Rosseau, S., Suttorp, N., and Schutte, H. 2007 Role of platelet-activating factor in pneumolysin-induced acute lung injury Critical Care Medicine 35, 7, 1756-1762
Zhang, Q. B., Bagrade, L., Bernatoniene, J., Clarke, E., Paton, J. C., Mitchell, T. J., Nunez, D. A., and Finn, A. 2007 Low CD4 T cell immunity to pneumolysin is associated with nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci in children Journal of Infectious Diseases 195, 8, 1194-1202