Browsing Dental Science (Scholarly Publications) by Author "COLEMAN, DAVID"
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AIR AND SURFACE CONTAMINATION PATTERNS OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus ON EIGHT ACUTE HOSPITAL WARDS
COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA; DEASY, EMILY (2014)BACKGROUND. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can be recovered from hospital air and from environmental surfaces. This poses a potential risk of transmission to patients. OBJECTIVE. To investigate ... -
AVIAN-ASSOCIATED AND HUMAN ISOLATES OF Candida dubliniensis ARE GENETICALLY DISTINCT
SULLIVAN, DEREK; COLEMAN, DAVID; MORAN, GARY; MCMANUS, BRENDA (2009)When Candida dubliniensis isolates obtained from seabird excrement and from humans in Ireland were compared by using multilocs sequence typing, 13 of 14 avian isolates were genetically distinct from human isolates. The ... -
CANDIDA ALBICANS VERSUS CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS: WHY IS C. ALBICANS MORE PATHOGENIC?
COLEMAN, DAVID; SULLIVAN, DEREK; MORAN, GARY (2012)Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis are highly related pathogenic yeast species. However, C. albicans is far more prevalent in human infection and has been shown to be more pathogenic in a wide range of infection ... -
Candida dubliniensis: An update
SULLIVAN, DEREK; SHANLEY, DIARMUID; MCCARTAN, BERNARD; MORAN, GARY; COLEMAN, DAVID (1999)The increased incidence of fungal infections during the last decade has been well-documented. Given that one of the most important factors contributing to this phenomenon is the increased numbers of immunocompromised ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL ARGININE CATABOLIC MOBILE ELEMENT (ACME) AND STAPHYLOCOCCAL CHROMOSOMAL CASSETTE mec COMPOSITE ISLAND WITH SIGNIFICANT HOMOLOGY TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS ACME TYPE II IN METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS GENOTYPE ST22-MRSA-IV
COLEMAN, DAVID (2011)The arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME) is prevalent among ST8-MRSA-IVa (USA300) isolates and evidence suggests that ACME enhances the ability of ST8-MRSA-IVa to grow and survive on its host. ACME has been identified ... -
COMPARATIVE ADHERENCE OF CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS TO HUMAN BUCCAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS
COLEMAN, DAVID; MORAN, GARY; SULLIVAN, DEREK (2014)Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis are very closely related pathogenic yeast species. Despite their close relationship, the former is a far more successful coloniser and pathogen of humans. The purpose of the current ... -
COMPARATIVE GENOMICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF PATHOGENICITY IN HUMAN PATHOGENIC FUNGI
MORAN, GARY; SULLIVAN, DEREK; COLEMAN, DAVID (2011)Because most fungi have evolved to be free-living in the environment and because the infections they cause are usually opportunistic in nature, it is often difficult to identify specific traits that contribute to fungal ... -
COMPARATIVE GENOMICS USING CANDIDA ALBICANS DNA MICROARRAYS REVEALS ABSENCE AND DIVERGENCE OF VIRULENCE ASSOCIATED GENES IN CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS
SULLIVAN, DEREK; MORAN, GARY; COLEMAN, DAVID (2004)Candida dubliniensis is a pathogenic yeast species closely related to Candida albicans. However, it is less frequently associated with human disease and displays reduced virulence in animal models of infection. We have ... -
COMPARATIVE GENOTYPES, STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME mec (SCCmec) GENES AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AMONGST STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS AND STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS ISOLATES FROM INFECTIONS IN HUMANS AND COMPANION ANIMALS
COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA; MCMANUS, BRENDA; DEASY, EMILY (2015) -
CONTROL OF BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION OF WASHBASIN TAPS AND OUTPUT WATER USING ECASOL: A ONE YEAR STUDY
COLEMAN, DAVID; O'DONNELL, MARY; RUSSELL, RONALD; MILLER, AISLING; BOYLE, MARIA (2012)BACKGROUND: Contaminated washbasin taps and output water are an important source of bacteria that may cause nosocomial infection. A five-week pretreatment study of hot and cold water from 15 washbasin taps at Dublin ... -
DETECTION OF mecC-POSITIVE Staphylococcus aureus (CC130-MRSA-XI) IN DISEASED EUROPEAN HEDGEHOGS (Erinaceus europaeus) IN SWEDEN
SHORE, ANNA; COLEMAN, DAVID; LAZARIS, ALEXANDROS (2013)Recently, a novel mec gene conferring beta-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus has been discovered. This gene, mecC, is situated on a SCCmec XI element that has to date been identified in clonal complexes 49, 130, ... -
DETECTION OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME mec Type XI ENCODING HIGHLY DIVERGENT mecA, mecI, mecR1, blaZ and ccr GENES IN HUMAN CLINICAL CLONAL COMPLEX 130 METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
SHORE, ANNA; COLEMAN, DAVID; DEASY, EMILY (2011)Methicillin resistance in staphylococci is mediated by penicillin binding protein 2a (PBP2a) encoded by mecA on mobile staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) elements. In this study two clonal complex (CC) 130 ... -
DIFFERENTIAL FILAMENTATION OF CANDIDA ALBICANS AND C. DUBLINIENSIS IS GOVERNED BY NUTRIENT REGULATION OF UME6 EXPRESSION
MORAN, GARY; COLEMAN, DAVID (2010)Candida dubliniensis is closely related to Candida albicans; however, it is responsible for fewer infections in humans and is less virulent in animal models of infection. C. dubliniensis forms fewer hyphae in vivo, and ... -
DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION OF THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR NRG1 ACCOUNTS FOR ALTERED HOST CELL INTERACTIONS IN CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS
SULLIVAN, DEREK; MORAN, GARY; COLEMAN, DAVID (2007)Candida dubliniensis is genetically closely related to C. albicans, but causes fewer infections in humans and exhibits reduced virulence and filamentation in animal models of infection. We investigated the role of the ... -
DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION OF THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR NRG1 ACCOUNTS FOR ALTERED HOST CELL INTERACTIONS IN CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS
COLEMAN, DAVID; MORAN, GARY; SULLIVAN, DEREK; COLEMAN, DAVID; MORAN, GARY (Blackwell Publishing, 2007-09)Candida dubliniensis is genetically closely related to C. albicans, but causes fewer infections in humans and exhibits reduced virulence and filamentation in animal models of infection. We investigated the role of the C. ... -
DISINFECTION PROCEDURES: THEIR EFFICACY AND EFFECT ON DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY, SURFACE QUALITY AND SURFACE DETAIL REPRODUCTION OF AN IRREVERSIBLE HYDROCOLLOID IMPRESSION MATERIAL
O'SULLIVAN, MICHAEL; COLEMAN, DAVID; O'DONNELL, MARY (2011)Objectives: This study investigated the antibacterial efficacy and effect of 0.55% ortho-phthalaldehyde (Cidex OPA?) and 0.5% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) on the dimensional accuracy and surface quality of gypsum casts ... -
DISSEMINATION OF HIGH-LEVEL MUPIROCIN-RESISTANT CC22-MRSA-IV IN SAXONY
COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA (2017) -
Distribution of SCCmec-associated phenol-soluble modulin in staphylococci
SHORE, ANNA; COLEMAN, DAVID (2012)The recently described phenol-soluble modulin PSM-mec was detected in S. aureus, S. epidermidis, S. fleuretti, S. hominis, S. pseudintermedius, S. saprophyticus, S. simulans and S. vitulinus from different hosts (humans, ... -
DIVERSITY OF Staphylococcus aureus ISOLATES IN EUROPEAN WILDLIFE
COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA; LAZARIS, ALEXANDROS (2016) -
DNA MICROARRAY GENOTYPING AND VIRULENCE AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE GENE PROFILING OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus BLOODSTREAM ISOLATES FROM RENAL PATIENTS
SHORE, ANNA; COLEMAN, DAVID (2011)Thirty-six methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream isolates from renal patients were genetically characterized by DNA microarray analysis and spa typing. The isolates were highly clonal, belonging ...