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Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients (2024)
Journal Article
Kouraki, A., Zheng, A. S., Miller, S., Kelly, A., Ashraf, W., Bazzani, D., Bonadiman, A., Tonidandel, G., Bolzan, M., Vijay, A., Nightingale, J., Menni, C., Ollivere, B. J., & Valdes, A. M. (2024). Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients. iScience, 27(9), Article 110783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110783

We investigated changes in microbiome composition and abundance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes post-antibiotic treatment in severe trauma patients. Shotgun sequencing revealed beta diversity (Bray-Curtis) differences between 16 hospitalized... Read More about Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients.

Propidium Monoazide -Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection of Residual Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Two-Stage Revision (2019)
Journal Article
Askar, M., Sajid, M., Nassif, Y., Ashraf, W., Scammell, B., & Bayston, R. (2019). Propidium Monoazide -Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection of Residual Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Two-Stage Revision. Molecular Biology Reports, 46(6), 6463–6470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-019-05092-z

Comparison of different human tissue processing methods for maximization of bacterial recovery (2018)
Journal Article
Askar, M., Ashraf, W., Scammell, B., & Bayston, R. (2019). Comparison of different human tissue processing methods for maximization of bacterial recovery. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 38(1), 149-155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-018-3406-4

Tissues are valuable microbiological samples that have proved superiority over swabs. Culture of tissue samples is used in the diagnosis of a variety of infections. However, as well as factors such as the site of obtaining the sample, the number of s... Read More about Comparison of different human tissue processing methods for maximization of bacterial recovery.

Biomaterial modification of urinary catheters with antimicrobials to give long-term broadspectrum antibiofilm activity (2015)
Journal Article
Fisher, L. E., Hook, A. L., Ashraf, W., Yousef, A., Barrett, D. A., Scurr, D. J., …Bayston, R. (2015). Biomaterial modification of urinary catheters with antimicrobials to give long-term broadspectrum antibiofilm activity. Journal of Controlled Release, 202, 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2015.01.037

© 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is the commonest hospital-acquired infection, accounting for over 100,000 hospital admissions within the USA annually. Biomaterials and processes intended to reduce... Read More about Biomaterial modification of urinary catheters with antimicrobials to give long-term broadspectrum antibiofilm activity.

A biodegradable antibiotic-impregnated scaffold to prevent osteomyelitis in a contaminated in vivo bone defect model (2014)
Journal Article
McLaren, J. S., White, L., Cox, H., Ashraf, W., Rahman, C., Blunn, G., …Scammell, B. E. (2014). A biodegradable antibiotic-impregnated scaffold to prevent osteomyelitis in a contaminated in vivo bone defect model. eCells and Materials Journal, 27, 332-349. https://doi.org/10.22203/eCM.v027a24

Open fractures are at risk of serious infection and, if infected, require several surgical interventions and courses of systemic antibiotics. We investigated a new injectable formulation that simultaneously hardens in vivo to form a porous scaffold f... Read More about A biodegradable antibiotic-impregnated scaffold to prevent osteomyelitis in a contaminated in vivo bone defect model.