B. Currie

Publication List Details

Period

2000 - 2007

Number

30

Co-Authors

Hydrogen sulphide eruptions in the Atlantic Ocean off southern Africa: implications of a new view based on SeaWiFS satellite imagery (2004)

Weeks, S. J., Currie, B., Bakun, A., Peard, K. R.

Conventional wisdom has held that eruptions of toxic hydrogen sulphide that occur from time to time in the ocean off southwestern Africa were rather isolated near-coastal features, limited both in...

Immunological response mounted by Aboriginal Australians living in the Northern Territory of Australia against Streptococcus pyogenes serum opacity factor (2002)

Gillen, CM, Towers, RJ, McMillan, DJ, Delvecchio, A, Sriprakash, KS, Currie, B, ...

Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A streptococcus) interacts with host fibronectin via a number of distinct surface components. The streptococcal serum opacity factor (SOF) is a cell-surface protein of...

Antibody levels to the class I and II epitopes of the M protein and myosin are related to group A streptococcal exposure in endemic populations (2001)

Brandt, ER, Yarwood, PJ, McMillan, DJ, Vohra, H, Currie, B, Mammo, L, ...

Rheumatic fever (RF)/rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis are thought to be autoimmune diseases, and follow group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. Different GAS M...

A redescription and reinterpretation of Gyracanthides murrayi Woodward 1906 (Acanthodii, Gyranthidae) from the lower carboniferous of the Mansfield Basin, Victoria, Australia (2000)

Warren, A., Currie, B., Burrow, C., Turner, S.

The articulated acanthodian Gyracanthides murrayi Woodward from the Lower Carboniferous of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, is redescribed from original and newly aquired material. It includes the...

Sterol compositions and susceptibilities to amphotericin B of environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolates are changed by murine passage.

Currie, B, Sanati, H, Ibrahim, A S, Edwards, J E, Casadevall, A, Ghannoum, M A

Previous studies have shown that sequential isolates from patients with persistent Cryptococcus neoformans meningoencephalitis can vary in sterol composition and susceptibility to antifungal drugs....

Multiple strains of Streptococcus pyogenes in skin sores of aboriginal Australians.

Carapetis, J, Gardiner, D, Currie, B, Mathews, J D

A molecular technique (random amplification of polymorphic DNA) was used to characterize group A streptococcal (GAS) strains among 194 isolates from 55 swabs from 12 Australian Aboriginal children...

Subdivision of Burkholderia pseudomallei ribotypes into multiple types by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis provides new insights into epidemiology.

Haase, A, Smith-Vaughan, H, Melder, A, Wood, Y, Janmaat, A, Gilfedder, J, ...

Ribotyping has previously been used for epidemiological studies of Burkholderia pseudomallei (previously Pseudomonas pseudomallei). We show here that random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis...

Sterol composition of Cryptococcus neoformans in the presence and absence of fluconazole.

Ghannoum, M A, Spellberg, B J, Ibrahim, A S, Ritchie, J A, Currie, B, Spitzer, E D, ...

Analysis of the sterol compositions of 13 clinical isolates of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans obtained from five patients with recurring cryptococcal meningitis showed that, unlike...

Two Distinct Genotypes of prtF2, Encoding a Fibronectin Binding Protein, and Evolution of the Gene Family in Streptococcus pyogenes

Ramachandran, V., McArthur, J. D., Behm, C. E., Gutzeit, C., Dowton, M., Fagan, P. K., ...

The group A Streptococcus (GAS) is an important pathogen that is responsible for a wide range of human diseases. Fibronectin binding proteins (FBPs) play an important role in promoting GAS adherence...

Sterol compositions and susceptibilities to amphotericin B of environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolates are changed by murine passage.

Currie, B, Sanati, H, Ibrahim, A S, Edwards, J E, Casadevall, A, Ghannoum, M A

Previous studies have shown that sequential isolates from patients with persistent Cryptococcus neoformans meningoencephalitis can vary in sterol composition and susceptibility to antifungal drugs....

Multiple strains of Streptococcus pyogenes in skin sores of aboriginal Australians.

Carapetis, J, Gardiner, D, Currie, B, Mathews, J D

A molecular technique (random amplification of polymorphic DNA) was used to characterize group A streptococcal (GAS) strains among 194 isolates from 55 swabs from 12 Australian Aboriginal children...

Subdivision of Burkholderia pseudomallei ribotypes into multiple types by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis provides new insights into epidemiology.

Haase, A, Smith-Vaughan, H, Melder, A, Wood, Y, Janmaat, A, Gilfedder, J, ...

Ribotyping has previously been used for epidemiological studies of Burkholderia pseudomallei (previously Pseudomonas pseudomallei). We show here that random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis...

Sterol composition of Cryptococcus neoformans in the presence and absence of fluconazole.

Ghannoum, M A, Spellberg, B J, Ibrahim, A S, Ritchie, J A, Currie, B, Spitzer, E D, ...

Analysis of the sterol compositions of 13 clinical isolates of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans obtained from five patients with recurring cryptococcal meningitis showed that, unlike...

Two Distinct Genotypes of prtF2, Encoding a Fibronectin Binding Protein, and Evolution of the Gene Family in Streptococcus pyogenes

Ramachandran, V., McArthur, J. D., Behm, C. E., Gutzeit, C., Dowton, M., Fagan, P. K., ...

The group A Streptococcus (GAS) is an important pathogen that is responsible for a wide range of human diseases. Fibronectin binding proteins (FBPs) play an important role in promoting GAS adherence...

Opsonic human antibodies from an endemic population specific for a conserved epitope on the M protein of group A streptococci.

Brandt, E R, Hayman, W A, Currie, B, Carapetis, J, Wood, Y, Jackson, D C, ...

This study demonstrates the presence of epitope-specific opsonic human antibodies in a population living in an area endemic for group A streptococci (GAS) infection. Antibodies recognizing a...

Saccade dysfunction associated with chronic petrol sniffing and lead encephalopathy

Cairney, S, Maruff, P, Burns, C, Currie, J, Currie, B

Background: In chronic petrol sniffers, recent exposure to high levels of leaded petrol may give rise to a lead encephalopathy characterised by tremor, chorea, ataxia, hyperreflexia, convulsive...

Cryptococcosis in HIV negative patients: findings on chest radiography

Roebuck, D., Fisher, D., Currie, B.

BACKGROUND—The findings at chest radiography in HIV negative patients with cryptococcosis are said to differ from those in HIV positive patients. No large series of HIV negative patients has been...

Rheumatic chorea in northern Australia: a clinical and epidemiological study

Carapetis, J., Currie, B.

To describe the epidemiology and clinical features of Sydenham's chorea in the Aboriginal population of northern Australia a review was conducted of 158 episodes in 108 people: 106 were Aborigines,...

Rheumatic fever in a high incidence population: the importance of monoarthritis and low grade fever

Carapetis, J, Currie, B

AIMS—To describe the clinical features of rheumatic fever and to assess the Jones criteria in a population and setting similar to that in many developing countries.
METHODS—The charts of 555...

Scabies: more than just an irritation

McCarthy, J, Kemp, D, Walton, S, Currie, B

Human scabies, caused by skin infestation with the arthropod mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, typically results in a papular, intensely pruritic eruption involving the interdigital spaces, and flexure...