Wilson, A.P., Hayman, S., Whitehouse, T., Cepeda, J., Kibbler, C., Shaw, S., ...
Objective: To assess the degree of environmental contamination with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in critical care and the likelihood of subsequent new patient acquisition if...
Herbicide treatments were used in glyphosate-resistant field corn, Zea mays L., to produce treatments with weeds growing for varying periods of time in a replicated field trial conducted in three...
A. P. Wilson, M. J. Vangessel, J. D. Pesek
Recent advances in weed control technology have changed how vegetational diversity can be managed in agroecosystems. This 2-yr study assessed the impact of altering the timing of herbicide...
Odukoya, O.A., Bansal, A., Wilson, A.P., Weetman, A.P., Cooke, I.D.
Activated B cells have recently been shown to produce soluble CD23 from their membranes. The serumsoluble CD23 concentration in 21 patients with pelvic pain diagnosed as having endometriosis and...
Ridgway, E. J., Wilson, A. P., Kelsey, M. C.
Cultures of nasal or presternal swabs form part of the routine preoperative screening of patients on the cardiac surgical ward. During a trial of antibiotic prophylaxis in 314 patients, preoperative...
Screening for Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
Wilson, A P, Matthews, S, Bahl, M, Efstratiou, A, Cookson, B D
A throat swab from a 9 year old girl with pharyngitis yielded a non-toxigenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae var mitis and Streptococcus group G. C pseudodiphtheriticum was isolated from the...
Endocarditis with rare parvobacillus: host response and difficulty in diagnosis.
Wilson, A P, Scott, G M, Prouse, P J, Gumpel, J M, Shah, L P, Webster, A D
Toxic dilatation of the colon in shigellosis.
Wilson, A P, Ridgway, G L, Sarner, M, Boulos, P B, Brook, M G, Cook, G C
Screening for Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
Wilson, A. P., Matthews, S., Bahl, M., Efstratiou, A., Cookson, B. D.
A throat swab from a 9 year old girl with pharyngitis yielded a non-toxigenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae var mitis and Streptococcus group G. C pseudodiphtheriticum was isolated from the...
Endocarditis with rare parvobacillus: host response and difficulty in diagnosis.
Wilson, A P, Scott, G M, Prouse, P J, Gumpel, J M, Shah, L P, Webster, A D
Toxic dilatation of the colon in shigellosis.
Wilson, A P, Ridgway, G L, Sarner, M, Boulos, P B, Brook, M G, Cook, G C
Normal murine splenic T lymphocytes and T-lymphoma cells were incubated with [35S]sulphate in low-sulphate medium for 4 hr. Gel filtration and SDS-PAGE revealed that the radiolabelled macromolecules...
Gold nephropathy due to auranofin obscured by tolmetin pseudoproteinuria.
Wilson, A P, Prouse, P J, Gumpel, J M
A 63-year-old woman with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis was successfully treated with auranofin for 12 months. Heavy proteinuria then developed and the drug was stopped. However, the proteinuria...
Listeria monocytogenes septic arthritis following intra-articular yttrium-90 therapy.
Wilson, A P, Prouse, P J, Gumpel, J M
Listeria monocytogenes is a rare cause of septic arthritis, which usually occurs in a host compromised by systemic illness. Intra-articular irradiation with yttrium-90 is generally free of...
Mortality from infective endocarditis: clinical predictors of outcome
Wallace, S M, Walton, B I, Kharbanda, R K, Hardy, R, Wilson, A P, Swanton, R H
Objective: To identify clinical markers available within the first 48 hours of admission that are associated with poor outcome in infective endocarditis.
Prevalence of urinary tract infection in homosexual and heterosexual men.
Wilson, A P, Tovey, S J, Adler, M W, Grüneberg, R N
Homosexual practices might be expected to result in an increase in urinary tract infection in adult men. Midstream urine specimens were collected from 200 homosexual and 205 heterosexual men...
Antibiotic prophylaxis in cardiothoracic surgery in the United Kingdom: current practice.
Wilson, A P, Treasure, T, Sturridge, M F, Grüneberg, R N
A survey was conducted of the current practice of antibiotic prophylaxis in cardiac surgery throughout the United Kingdom. Most surgeons (84%) use a regimen covering a broad spectrum of bacterial...
Acute urethritis due to Neisseria meningitidis group A acquired by orogenital contact: case report.
Wilson, A P, Wolff, J, Atia, W
A case of heterosexual transmission of Neisseria meningitidis group A by fellatio, which resulted in acute purulent urethritis in the male partner, is presented. The emotional impact of a mistaken...
The use of a new glycopeptide antibiotic, teicoplanin, in the treatment of bacterial endocarditis.
Webster, A., Wilson, A. P., Williams, A. H., Treasure, T., Grüneberg, R. N.
Teicoplanin, a new glycopeptide antibiotic, has been used to treat twelve patients with bacterial endocarditis due to Gram-positive organisms. Teicoplanin has activity against Gram-positive bacteria...
Wilson, A. P., Fox, H., Scott, I. V., Lee, H., Dent, M., Golding, P. R.
The growth promoting properties of ascitic fluids, cyst fluids and peritoneal fluids from patients with ovarian malignancy, benign ovarian tumours and non-tumour related gynaecological conditions...
A comparison of three assays used for the in vitro chemosensitivity testing of human tumours.
Wilson, A. P., Ford, C. H., Newman, C. E., Howell, A.
In this study cell lines have been used to determine the level of correlation between three assays which are in use for in vitro prediction of human tumour chemosensitivity. The methods which were...
Wilson, A. P., Ford, C. H., Newman, C. E., Howell, A.
A study on the in vitro sensitivity of tumour cells from patients with ovarian cancer has been carried out in parallel with a clinical study designed to evaluate the role of high-dose cis-platinum...
Flavell, D. J., Goepel, J., Wilson, A. P., Potter, C. W.
Groups of 4 guinea-pigs were immunized with acid extracts prepared from bovine myelin (EF), normal human liver tissue and malignant or benign neoplastic tissues in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA1....
In vitro sensitivity of human ovarian tumours to chemotherapeutic agents.
The in vitro chemosensitivity of primary monolayer cultures of human ovarian tumours to a wide range of chemotherapeutic agents has been determined using 3H-leucine incorporation as an index of...
MAGE, BAGE and GAGE: tumour antigen expression in benign and malignant ovarian tissue.
Gillespie, A. M., Rodgers, S., Wilson, A. P., Tidy, J., Rees, R. C., Coleman, R. E., ...
To determine if ovarian cancer patients would be suitable for MAGE-peptide vaccine-based immunotherapy, the frequency of expression of the MAGE-1-4 genes in ovarian tumours was assessed using reverse...
Characterisation of seven human ovarian tumour cell lines.
Wilson, A. P., Dent, M., Pejovic, T., Hubbold, L., Radford, H.
Characteristics of a panel of seven human ovarian tumour cell lines are presented. Positive staining with HMFG2 and ultrastructural identification of desmosomes confirmed the epithelial nature of the...
Mesothelial cells stimulate the anchorage-independent growth of human ovarian tumour cells.
Results are presented which show that mesothelial cells (MC) from ovarian cancer patients can both stimulate and inhibit the clonogenic growth of ovarian tumour cells (TC) in a dose-dependent...
Hills, C. A., Kelland, L. R., Abel, G., Siracky, J., Wilson, A. P., Harrap, K. R.
Ten human ovarian carcinoma cell lines have been studied as a potential in vitro screen for the development of novel anticancer platinum complexes. Lines have been established and developed both from...