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Assessing the public acceptability of proposed policy interventions to reduce the misuse of antibiotics in Australia: A report on two community juries
Degeling, C; Johnson, J; Iredell, J; Nguyen, KA; Norris, J; Turnidge, J; Dawson, A; Carter, SM; Gilbert, GLPublished 2017-01-01Objective To elicit the views of well-informed community members on the acceptability of proposed policy interventions designed to improve community use of antibiotics in Australia. Design Two community juries held in ...Open AccessArticle -
Azithromycin-resistant syphilis-causing strains in Sydney: prevalence and risk factors
Read, P; Jeoffreys, N; Tagg, K; Guy, R; Gilbert, GL; Donovan, BPublished 2014-01-01Azithromycin has shown high efficacy in randomized trials when used for treating infectious syphilis in Africa. However, its use in clinical practice has been limited by the development of antimicrobial drug resistance. ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond hand hygiene: a qualitative study of the everyday work of preventing cross-contamination in hospital wards
Hor, S.-Y.; Hooker, C; Iedema, R; Wyer, M; Gilbert, GL; Jorm, C; O'Sullivan, MPublished 2016-01-01Background Hospital-acquired infections are the most common adverse event for inpatients worldwide. Efforts to prevent microbial cross-contamination currently focus on hand hygiene and use of personal protective equipment ...Open AccessArticle -
Diversity of group B streptococcus serotypes causing urinary tract infection in adults
Ulett, K; Benjamin, WH; Schembri, M; Kong, Fanrong; Gilbert, GL; Ulett, GPublished 2009-01-01Serotypes of group B streptococcus (GBS) that cause urinary tract infection (UTI) are poorly characterized. We conducted a prospective study of GBS UTI in adults to define the clinical and microbiological characteristics ...Open AccessArticle -
Don’t panic about Ebola’s spread, here’s what we can do instead
Hill-Cawthorne, G; Gilbert, GLPublished 2014-09-11News that a 25-year-old Gold Coast man is being quarantined in hospital after returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo two days ago is no reason to panic. If anything, the incident highlights the problematic nature ...Open AccessArticle -
Epidemic ethics: four lessons from the current Ebola outbreak
Kerridge, I; Gilbert, GLPublished 2014-08-25The extent of the current Ebolavirus outbreak in West Africa has belatedly focused the attention of non-governmental organisations, local and Western governments, and international media. What we haven’t caught up with ...Open AccessArticle -
Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) as a prominent cause of antibiotic resistance among clinical and fecal Escherichia coli isolates from reproductive-age women
Kudinha, T; Johnson, JR; Andrew, SD; Kong, Fanrong; Anderson, P; Gilbert, GLPublished 2013-01-01The recent emergence of multidrug-resistantEscherichia colisequence type 131 (ST131) has coincided with an increase in general antibiotic resistance ofE. coli, suggesting that ST131 has a contributing role in resistance. ...Open AccessArticle -
Implementing One Health approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease: Reflections on the socio-political, ethical and legal dimensions
Degeling, C; Johnson, J; Kerridge, I; Wilson, A; Ward, M; Stewart, C; Gilbert, GLPublished 2015-12-01Background: ‘One Health’ represents a call for health researchers and practitioners at the human, animal and environmental interfaces to work together to mitigate the risks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases ...Open AccessArticle -
In reply: One moment doctor! Have you forgotten hand hygiene?
Gilbert, GLPublished 2014-01-01Auditing the five moments of hand hygiene is potentially subjective, but auditor training is designed to ensure consistency between auditors within and between health care settings. Interpretative differences cannot ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Involving patients in understanding hospital infection control using visual methods
Wyer, M C; Jackson, D; Iedema, R; Hor, S Y; Gilbert, GL; Jorm, C; Hooker, C; O’Sullivan, M; Carroll, KPublished 2015-02-01Aims and Objectives This paper explores patients' perspectives on infection prevention and control. Background Healthcare-associated infections are the most frequent adverse event experienced by patients. Reduction strategies ...Open AccessArticle -
Mandatory influenza immunisation of health-care workers
Gilbert, GL; Kerridge, I; Cheung, PPublished 2010-01-01Seasonal influenza imposes an enormous but poorly defined burden of excess deaths, hospital admissions, and health-care costs, and often spreads within health-care facilities. Hospital patients with influenza are a potential ...Open AccessArticle -
Molecular characterizations of PCR-positive Mycoplasma pneumoniae specimen collected from Australia and China.
Xue G, G; Wang, Q; Yan, C; Jeoffreys, N; Wang, L; Gilbert, GL; Sun, HPublished 2014-01-01Mycoplasma pneumoniaeis an important cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). In this study,M. pneumoniae strains in PCR-positive specimens collected from patients in Sydney, Australia (30 samples), and Beijing, China ...Open AccessArticle -
No, you don’t have to finish all your antibiotics
Gilbert, GLPublished 2015-04-17Most people believe – and have been told by health professionals – that it’s essential to finish a course of antibiotics to prevent antibiotic resistance. But this advice is not only wrong, it could actually be harmful. ...Open AccessArticle -
Patient Involvement Can Affect Clinicians’ Perspectives and Practices of Infection Prevention and Control: A “Post-Qualitative” Study Using Video-Reflexive Ethnography
Wyer, M; Iedema, R; Hor, S.-Y.; Jorm, C; Hooker, C; Gilbert, GLPublished 2017-01-01This study, set in a mixed, adult surgical ward of a metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, used a novel application of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) to engage patients and clinicians in an exploration ...Open AccessArticle -
A persistent spot of bother – why vaccinations haven’t stopped measles
Gilbert, GLPublished 2011-06-09Despite high vaccination rates, Australia and other developed countries periodically have small outbreaks of measles, as seen in the recent scares in Victoria and New South Wales. Until about 40 years ago, serious measles ...Open AccessArticle -
Preventing perinatal group B streptococcal infection: the jury is still out.
Gilbert, GLPublished 2002-01-01EVER SINCE GROUPB streptococcus (GBS) emerged as the commonest cause of perinatal sepsis in the late 1970s, there has been controversy about prevention strategies. A few hospitals in Australia were among the first in the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Rolling circle amplification for direct detection of rpoB gene mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from clinical specimens
Chen, X-Y; Wang, B; Yang, W; Kong, Fanrong; Li, C-Y; Sun, Z-G; Jelfs, P; Gilbert, GLPublished 2014-01-01Rapid and accurate detection of multidrug resistance (MDR) inMycobacterium tuberculosisis essential to improve treatment outcomes and reduce global transmission but remains a challenge. Rifampin (RIF) resistance is a ...Open AccessArticle -
Should I stay or should I go? Patient understandings of and responses to source-isolation practices,
Wyer, M; Iedema, R; Jorm, C; Armstrong, G; Hor, S-Y; Hooker, C; Jackson, D; Hughes, C; O'Sullivan, M; Gilbert, GLPublished 2015-01-01Isolation of patients, who are colonised or infected with a multidrug-resistant organism (source-isolation), is a common practice in most acute health-care settings, to prevent transmission to other patients. Efforts to ...Open AccessArticle
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