Russell, Richard C., Currie, Bart J., Lindsay, Michael D., Mackenzie, John S., Ritchie, Scott A., Whelan, Peter I.
•Dengue transmission in Australia is currently restricted to Queensland, where the vector mosquito Aedes aegypti is established. Locally acquired infections have been reported only from urban areas...
Genomic islands from five strains of Burkholderia pseudomallei (2008)
Tuanyok, Apichai, Leadem, Benjamin R, Auerbach, Raymond K, Beckstrom-Sternberg, Stephen M, Beckstrom-Sternberg, James S, Mayo, Mark, ...
Abstract Background Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiologic agent of melioidosis, a significant cause of morbidity and mortality where this infection is endemic. Genomic differences among strains...
Shelley F. Walton, Bart J. Currie
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Burkholderia pseudomalleigenome plasticity associated with genomic island variation (2008)
Tumapa, Sarinna, Holden, Matthew TG, Vesaratchavest, Mongkol, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Limmathurotsakul, Direk, Chierakul, Wirongrong, ...
Abstract Background Burkholderia pseudomallei is a soil-dwelling saprophyte and the cause of melioidosis. Horizontal gene transfer contributes to the genetic diversity of this pathogen and may be an...
Recovery of a Burkholderia thailandensis-like isolate from an Australian water source (2008)
Gee, Jay E, Glass, Mindy B, Novak, Ryan T, Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark J, Steigerwalt, Arnold G, ...
Abstract Background Burkholderia thailandensis , a close relative of Burkholderia pseudomallei , has previously been reported only from Southeast Asia and North America. It is biochemically...
A change of heart: the new infective endocarditis prophylaxis guidelines (2008)
Daly, Christopher George, Currie, Bart J., Jeyasingham, M. S., Moulds, R. F. W., Smith, J. A., Strathmore, N. F., ...
C.G. Daly, B.J. Currie, M.S. Jeyasingham, R.F.W. Moulds, J.A. Smith, N.F. Strathmore, A.C. Street, A.N. Goss
A change of heart: the new infective endocarditis prophylaxis guidelines (2008)
Daly, Christopher George, Currie, Bart J., Jeyasingham, M. S., Moulds, R. F. W., Smith, J. A., Strathmore, N. F., ...
C.G. Daly, B.J. Currie, M.S. Jeyasingham, R.F.W. Moulds, J.A. Smith, N.F. Strathmore, A.C. Street, A.N. Goss
Isbister, Geoffrey K., Brown, Simon G. A., MacDonald, Ellen, White, Julian, Currie, Bart J.
Geoffrey K. Isbister, Simon G. Brown, Ellen MacDonald, Julian White and Bart J. Currie, for the Australian Snakebite Project Investigators
Isbister, Geoffrey K., Brown, Simon G. A., MacDonald, Ellen, White, Julian, Currie, Bart J.
Geoffrey K. Isbister, Simon G. Brown, Ellen MacDonald, Julian White and Bart J. Currie, for the Australian Snakebite Project Investigators
Using BOX-PCR to exclude a clonal outbreak of melioidosis (2007)
Currie, Bart J, Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Ward, Linda, Godoy, Daniel, Spratt, Brian G, ...
Abstract Background Although melioidosis in endemic regions is usually caused by a diverse range of Burkholderia pseudomallei strains, clonal outbreaks from contaminated potable water have been...
U'Ren, Jana M, Schupp, James M, Pearson, Talima, Hornstra, Heidie, Friedman, Christine, Smith, Kimothy L, ...
Abstract Background The facultative, intracellular bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a serious infectious disease of humans and animals. We identified and...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Phillip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
Clinically applicable laboratory end-points for treating snakebite coagulopathy (2006)
Isbister, Geoffrey K., Williams, Vaughan K., Brown, Simon G. A., White, Julian, Currie, Bart J.
Isbister Geoffrey K., Williams Vaughan, Brown Simon G. A., White Julian and Currie Bart J.
High rate of immediate systemic hypersensitivity reactions to tiger snake antivenom (2006)
Isbister, Geoffrey K, Tankel, Alan, White, Julian A, Little, Mark, Brown, Simon G, Spain, David John, ...
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High rate of immediate systemic hypersensitivity reactions to tiger snake antivenom (2006)
Isbister, Geoffrey K, Tankel, Alan, White, Julian A, Little, Mark, Brown, Simon G, Spain, David John, ...
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Clinically applicable laboratory end-points for treating snakebite coagulopathy (2006)
Isbister, Geoffrey K., Williams, Vaughan K., Brown, Simon G. A., White, Julian, Currie, Bart J.
Isbister Geoffrey K., Williams Vaughan, Brown Simon G. A., White Julian and Currie Bart J.
High rate of immediate systemic hypersensitivity reactions to tiger snake antivenom (2006)
Isbister, Geoffrey K, Tankel, Alan, White, Julian A, Little, Mark, Brown, Simon G, Spain, David John, ...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
High rate of immediate systemic hypersensitivity reactions to tiger snake antivenom (2006)
Isbister, Geoffrey K, Tankel, Alan, White, Julian A, Little, Mark, Brown, Simon G, Spain, David John, ...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
Cheng, Allen C, Jacups, Susan P, Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Currie, Bart J
Background Melioidosis, the infection due to the environmental organism Burkholderia pseudomallei, is endemic to northern Australia and South East Asia. It is associated with exposure to mud and...
Willis, Charlene, Fischer, Katja, Walton, Shelly F., Currie, Bart J., Kemp, David J.
The scabies mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, is the causative agent of scabies, a disease that is common among disadvantaged populations and facilitates streptococcal infections with serious sequelae....
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppendisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
Spider bites: Addressing mythology and poor evidence (2005)
Isbister, Geoffrey K., White, Jason Mark, Currie, Bart J., Bush, Steven, Vetter, R. S., Warrell, David
Spider bites: Addressing mythology and poor evidence (2005)
Isbister, Geoffrey K., White, Jason Mark, Currie, Bart J., Bush, Steven, Vetter, R. S., Warrell, David
Cheng, Allen C., Jacups, Susan P., Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Currie, Bart J.
Background Melioidosis, the infection due to the environmental organism Burkholderia pseudomallei, is endemic to northern Australia and South East Asia. It is associated with exposure to mud and...
Ulett, Glen Charles, Labrooy, Justin T., Currie, Bart J., Barnes, Jodie L., Ketheesan, Natkunam
Burkholderia pseudomallei, the etiological agent of melioidosis, causes significant mortality in endemic regions, but little is known regarding the immune mechanisms required for successful...
Ulett, Glen Charles, Labrooy, Justin T., Currie, Bart J., Barnes, Jodie L., Ketheesan, Natkunam
Burkholderia pseudomallei, the etiological agent of melioidosis, causes significant mortality in endemic regions, but little is known regarding the immune mechanisms required for successful...
Hassell, Marilyn, Fagan, Peter, Carson, Phillip, Currie, Bart J
Abstract Background Since the mid-1980's there has been a worldwide resurgence of severe disease from group A streptococcus (GAS), with clonal clusters implicated in Europe and the United States....
Circulating IgE in Patients with Ordinary and Crusted Scabies (2004)
Larry G. Arlian, Marjorie S. Morgan, Stephen A. Estes, Shelley F. Walton, David J. Kemp, Bart J. Currie
Serum from seven patients with ordinary scabies and six with crusted scabies were screened by immunoblotting for IgE- and IgG-specific proteins in an extract of the mite, Sarcoptes scabiei variety...
Burkholderia pseudomallei Virulence: Definition, Stability and Association with Clonality (2001)
Ulett, Glen Charles, Currie, Bart J., Clair, Timothy W., Mayo, Mark, Ketheesan, Natkunam, Labrooy, Justin, ...
Clinical presentations of melioidosis, caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei are protean, but the mechanisms underlying development of the different forms of disease remain poorly understood. In murine...
Burkholderia pseudomallei Virulence: Definition, Stability and Association with Clonality (2001)
Ulett, Glen Charles, Currie, Bart J., Clair, Timothy W., Mayo, Mark, Ketheesan, Natkunam, Labrooy, Justin, ...
Clinical presentations of melioidosis, caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei are protean, but the mechanisms underlying development of the different forms of disease remain poorly understood. In murine...
Spinal Cord Disease Due To Melioidosis (1999)
Bartley, Paul P., Pender, Michael P., Woods, Marion L., Walker, Duncan, Douglas, James A., Allworth, Anthony M., ...
Acute leioidosis typically presents as severe pneumonia or septicaemia. Woods et al have described neurological presentations of melioidosis affecting the brainstem and affecting motor weakness. We...
Spinal Cord Disease Due To Melioidosis (1999)
Bartley, Paul P., Pender, Michael P., Woods, Marion L., Walker, Duncan, Douglas, James A., Allworth, Anthony M., ...
Acute leioidosis typically presents as severe pneumonia or septicaemia. Woods et al have described neurological presentations of melioidosis affecting the brainstem and affecting motor weakness. We...
Spinal Cord Disease Due To Melioidosis (1999)
Bartley, Paul P., Pender, Michael P., Woods, Marion L., Walker, Duncan, Douglas, James A., Allworth, Anthony M., ...
Acute leioidosis typically presents as severe pneumonia or septicaemia. Woods et al have described neurological presentations of melioidosis affecting the brainstem and affecting motor weakness. We...
Tjitra, Emiliana, Suprianto, Sri, Dyer, Mary, Currie, Bart J., Anstey, Nicholas M.
In areas such as eastern Indonesia where both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax occur, rapid antigen detection tests for malaria need to be able to detect both species. We evaluated the new...
Tjitra, Emiliana, Suprianto, Sri, McBroom, James, Currie, Bart J., Anstey, Nicholas M.
A problem with rapid Plasmodium falciparum-specific antigen histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2) detection tests for malaria is the persistence of antigen in blood after the disappearance of asexual-stage...
Goodfellow, Alison M., Hibble, Megan, Talay, Susanne R., Kreikemeyer, Bernd, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S., ...
Fibronectin binding proteins play an important role in the adherence and invasion of group A streptococci (GAS). Genotypically distinct GAS isolates were screened for the presence and expression of...
DelVecchio, Armando, Maley, Michael, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, K. S.
Streptococcus pyogenes isolates from a tropical region and a subtropical region of Australia with high and low incidences of severe streptococcal diseases, respectively, were analyzed for speA, speB,...
Anstey, Nicholas M., Currie, Bart J., Hassell, Marilyn, Palmer, Didier, Dwyer, Brian, Seifert, Harald
Acinetobacter isolates from eight subjects with community-acquired Acinetobacter pneumonia (CAAP), a major cause of fatal community-acquired pneumonia in tropical Australia, were phenotypically and...
Edwards, Mandy L, Fagan, Peter K., Smith-Vaughan, Heidi, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S.
Epidemiologically unrelated Streptococcus pyogenes strains isolated from blood, throat, and skin were assayed for adherence to HEp2 and HaCaT cells. Invasive isolates showed significantly higher...
Ethical problems of evaluating a new treatment for melioidosis
Cheng, Allen C, Lowe, Michael, Stephens, Dianne P, Currie, Bart J
When mortality from melioidosis fell sharply after multiple changes in management at an Australian hospital, doctors wanted to identify whether a new drug was responsible. But designing a trial that...
Towers, Rebecca J., Fagan, Peter K., Talay, Susanne R., Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S., Walker, Mark J., ...
Streptococcal fibronectin-binding protein is an important virulence factor involved in colonization and invasion of epithelial cells and tissues by Streptococcus pyogenes. In order to investigate the...
McKay, Fiona C., McArthur, Jason D., Sanderson-Smith, Martina L., Gardam, Sandra, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S., ...
Reports of resurgence in invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) infections come mainly from affluent populations with infrequent exposure to GAS. In the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, high...
Outcomes of Patients with Melioidosis Treated with Meropenem
Cheng, Allen C., Fisher, Dale A., Anstey, Nicholas M., Stephens, Dianne P., Jacups, Susan P., Currie, Bart J.
Melioidosis, an infection due to Burkholderia pseudomallei, is endemic in southeast Asia and northern Australia. We reviewed our experience with meropenem in the treatment of severe melioidosis in 63...
Cryptococcus Infection in Tropical Australia
Jenney, Adam, Pandithage, Kishan, Fisher, Dale A., Currie, Bart J.
Eighteen cases of disease caused by the saprophytic fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus bacillisporus are described from the Northern Territory of Australia. The majority of infections...
Towers, Rebecca J., Gal, Daniel, McMillan, David, Sriprakash, Kadaba S., Currie, Bart J., Walker, Mark J., ...
We report evidence of interspecies gene transfer between the important virulence factor genes sfbI and gfbA. Because the identified group G streptococcus gfbA types possess DNA cassettes that can be...
Cheng, Allen C., Godoy, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Gal, Daniel, Spratt, Brian G., Currie, Bart J.
Melioidosis is the disease caused by the saprophytic organism Burkholderia pseudomallei. Previous studies have suggested some strain tropism and differential virulence. In this study, we defined...
Melioidosis: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Management
Cheng, Allen C., Currie, Bart J.
Melioidosis, caused by the gram-negative saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei, is a disease of public health importance in southeast Asia and northern Australia that is associated with high...
Cole, Jason N., Ramirez, Ruben D., Currie, Bart J., Cordwell, Stuart J., Djordjevic, Steven P., Walker, Mark J.
A proteomic analysis was undertaken to identify cell wall-associated proteins of Streptococcus pyogenes. Seventy-four distinct cell wall-associated proteins were identified, 66 of which were novel....
Clonality and Recombination in Genetically Differentiated Subgroups of Cryptococcus gattii†
Campbell, Leona T., Currie, Bart J., Krockenberger, Mark, Malik, Richard, Meyer, Wieland, Heitman, Joseph, ...
Cryptococcus gattii is a pathogenic yeast that together with Cryptococcus neoformans causes cryptococcosis in humans and animals. High numbers of viable C. gattii propagules can be obtained from...
Novak, Ryan T., Glass, Mindy B., Gee, Jay E., Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark J., Currie, Bart J., ...
Here we report on the development of a discriminatory real-time assay for the rapid identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates and the evaluation of this assay for sensitivity against...
Further Evaluation of a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Melioidosis in an Area of Endemicity
O'Brien, Mathew, Freeman, Kevin, Lum, Gary, Cheng, Allen C., Jacups, Susan P., Currie, Bart J.
Immunochromatographic test (ICT) kits for the rapid detection of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies to Burkholderia pseudomallei were compared to the indirect hemagglutination (IHA) assay. In...
McDonald, Malcolm, Towers, Rebecca, Fagan, Peter, McKinnon, Melita, Benger, Norma, Andrews, Ross, ...
Throat swabs are regarded as the “gold standard” for diagnosing streptococcal pharyngitis and for surveillance research. Culturing throats in remote tropical settings is logistically difficult,...
Duangsonk, Kwanjit, Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Hart, C. Anthony, Currie, Bart J., Winstanley, Craig
Melioidosis, a disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, is endemic in southeast Asia and northern Australia. We used suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) to identify...
Vesaratchavest, Mongkol, Tumapa, Sarinna, Day, Nicholas P. J., Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Chierakul, Wirongrong, Holden, Matthew T. G., ...
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a soil-dwelling saprophyte and the causative agent of melioidosis, a life-threatening human infection. Most cases are reported from northeast Thailand and northern...
Clinical Evaluation of a Type III Secretion System Real-Time PCR Assay for Diagnosing Melioidosis
Meumann, Ella M., Novak, Ryan T., Gal, Daniel, Kaestli, Mirjam E., Mayo, Mark, Hanson, Joshua P., ...
A Burkholderia pseudomallei type III secretion system real-time PCR assay was evaluated on clinical specimens in a region where melioidosis is endemic. The PCR was positive in 30/33 (91%) patients...
Tjitra, Emiliana, Suprianto, Sri, Dyer, Mary, Currie, Bart J., Anstey, Nicholas M.
In areas such as eastern Indonesia where both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax occur, rapid antigen detection tests for malaria need to be able to detect both species. We evaluated the new...
Tjitra, Emiliana, Suprianto, Sri, McBroom, James, Currie, Bart J., Anstey, Nicholas M.
A problem with rapid Plasmodium falciparum-specific antigen histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2) detection tests for malaria is the persistence of antigen in blood after the disappearance of asexual-stage...
Goodfellow, Alison M., Hibble, Megan, Talay, Susanne R., Kreikemeyer, Bernd, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S., ...
Fibronectin binding proteins play an important role in the adherence and invasion of group A streptococci (GAS). Genotypically distinct GAS isolates were screened for the presence and expression of...
DelVecchio, Armando, Maley, Michael, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, K. S.
Streptococcus pyogenes isolates from a tropical region and a subtropical region of Australia with high and low incidences of severe streptococcal diseases, respectively, were analyzed for speA, speB,...
Anstey, Nicholas M., Currie, Bart J., Hassell, Marilyn, Palmer, Didier, Dwyer, Brian, Seifert, Harald
Acinetobacter isolates from eight subjects with community-acquired Acinetobacter pneumonia (CAAP), a major cause of fatal community-acquired pneumonia in tropical Australia, were phenotypically and...
Edwards, Mandy L, Fagan, Peter K., Smith-Vaughan, Heidi, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S.
Epidemiologically unrelated Streptococcus pyogenes strains isolated from blood, throat, and skin were assayed for adherence to HEp2 and HaCaT cells. Invasive isolates showed significantly higher...
Ethical problems of evaluating a new treatment for melioidosis
Cheng, Allen C, Lowe, Michael, Stephens, Dianne P, Currie, Bart J
When mortality from melioidosis fell sharply after multiple changes in management at an Australian hospital, doctors wanted to identify whether a new drug was responsible. But designing a trial that...
Towers, Rebecca J., Fagan, Peter K., Talay, Susanne R., Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S., Walker, Mark J., ...
Streptococcal fibronectin-binding protein is an important virulence factor involved in colonization and invasion of epithelial cells and tissues by Streptococcus pyogenes. In order to investigate the...
McKay, Fiona C., McArthur, Jason D., Sanderson-Smith, Martina L., Gardam, Sandra, Currie, Bart J., Sriprakash, Kadaba S., ...
Reports of resurgence in invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) infections come mainly from affluent populations with infrequent exposure to GAS. In the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, high...
Outcomes of Patients with Melioidosis Treated with Meropenem
Cheng, Allen C., Fisher, Dale A., Anstey, Nicholas M., Stephens, Dianne P., Jacups, Susan P., Currie, Bart J.
Melioidosis, an infection due to Burkholderia pseudomallei, is endemic in southeast Asia and northern Australia. We reviewed our experience with meropenem in the treatment of severe melioidosis in 63...
Further Evaluation of a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Melioidosis in an Area of Endemicity
O'Brien, Mathew, Freeman, Kevin, Lum, Gary, Cheng, Allen C., Jacups, Susan P., Currie, Bart J.
Immunochromatographic test (ICT) kits for the rapid detection of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies to Burkholderia pseudomallei were compared to the indirect hemagglutination (IHA) assay. In...
Cryptococcus Infection in Tropical Australia
Jenney, Adam, Pandithage, Kishan, Fisher, Dale A., Currie, Bart J.
Eighteen cases of disease caused by the saprophytic fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus bacillisporus are described from the Northern Territory of Australia. The majority of infections...
Towers, Rebecca J., Gal, Daniel, McMillan, David, Sriprakash, Kadaba S., Currie, Bart J., Walker, Mark J., ...
We report evidence of interspecies gene transfer between the important virulence factor genes sfbI and gfbA. Because the identified group G streptococcus gfbA types possess DNA cassettes that can be...
Cheng, Allen C., Godoy, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Gal, Daniel, Spratt, Brian G., Currie, Bart J.
Melioidosis is the disease caused by the saprophytic organism Burkholderia pseudomallei. Previous studies have suggested some strain tropism and differential virulence. In this study, we defined...
Melioidosis: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Management
Cheng, Allen C., Currie, Bart J.
Melioidosis, caused by the gram-negative saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei, is a disease of public health importance in southeast Asia and northern Australia that is associated with high...
Cole, Jason N., Ramirez, Ruben D., Currie, Bart J., Cordwell, Stuart J., Djordjevic, Steven P., Walker, Mark J.
A proteomic analysis was undertaken to identify cell wall-associated proteins of Streptococcus pyogenes. Seventy-four distinct cell wall-associated proteins were identified, 66 of which were novel....
Clonality and Recombination in Genetically Differentiated Subgroups of Cryptococcus gattii†
Campbell, Leona T., Currie, Bart J., Krockenberger, Mark, Malik, Richard, Meyer, Wieland, Heitman, Joseph, ...
Cryptococcus gattii is a pathogenic yeast that together with Cryptococcus neoformans causes cryptococcosis in humans and animals. High numbers of viable C. gattii propagules can be obtained from...
Novak, Ryan T., Glass, Mindy B., Gee, Jay E., Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark J., Currie, Bart J., ...
Here we report on the development of a discriminatory real-time assay for the rapid identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates and the evaluation of this assay for sensitivity against...
McDonald, Malcolm, Towers, Rebecca, Fagan, Peter, McKinnon, Melita, Benger, Norma, Andrews, Ross, ...
Throat swabs are regarded as the “gold standard” for diagnosing streptococcal pharyngitis and for surveillance research. Culturing throats in remote tropical settings is logistically difficult,...
Duangsonk, Kwanjit, Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Hart, C. Anthony, Currie, Bart J., Winstanley, Craig
Melioidosis, a disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, is endemic in southeast Asia and northern Australia. We used suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) to identify...
Vesaratchavest, Mongkol, Tumapa, Sarinna, Day, Nicholas P. J., Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Chierakul, Wirongrong, Holden, Matthew T. G., ...
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a soil-dwelling saprophyte and the causative agent of melioidosis, a life-threatening human infection. Most cases are reported from northeast Thailand and northern...
Clinical Evaluation of a Type III Secretion System Real-Time PCR Assay for Diagnosing Melioidosis
Meumann, Ella M., Novak, Ryan T., Gal, Daniel, Kaestli, Mirjam E., Mayo, Mark, Hanson, Joshua P., ...
A Burkholderia pseudomallei type III secretion system real-time PCR assay was evaluated on clinical specimens in a region where melioidosis is endemic. The PCR was positive in 30/33 (91%) patients...
McDonald, Malcolm, Dougall, Annette, Holt, Deborah, Huygens, Flavia, Oppedisano, Frances, Giffard, Philip M., ...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as a major public health problem in Australia, as in many other parts of the world. High rates of CA-MRSA skin and...
U'Ren, Jana M, Schupp, James M, Pearson, Talima, Hornstra, Heidie, Friedman, Christine L Clark, Smith, Kimothy L, ...
Spinal Cord Disease Due To Melioidosis
Bartley, Paul P., Pender, Michael P., Woods, Marion L., Walker, Duncan, Douglas, James A., Allworth, Anthony M., ...
Acute leioidosis typically presents as severe pneumonia or septicaemia. Woods et al have described neurological presentations of melioidosis affecting the brainstem and affecting motor weakness. We...
Using BOX-PCR to exclude a clonal outbreak of melioidosis
Currie, Bart J, Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark, Ward, Linda, Godoy, Daniel, Spratt, Brian G, ...
Kaestli, Mirjam, Mayo, Mark, Harrington, Glenda, Watt, Felicity, Hill, Jason, Gal, Daniel, ...
Burkholderia pseudomallei, the cause of the severe disease melioidosis in humans and animals, is a gram-negative saprophyte living in soil and water of areas of endemicity such as tropical northern...
Amornchai, Premjit, Chierakul, Wirongrong, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Mahakhunkijcharoen, Yuvadee, Phetsouvanh, Rattanaphone, Currie, Bart J., ...
In an evaluation of the API 20NE for the identification of Burkholderia spp., 792/800 (99%) Burkholderia pseudomallei and 17/19 (89%) B. cepacia isolates were correctly identified but 10 B. mallei...
Problems in Diagnosing Scabies, a Global Disease in Human and Animal Populations
Walton, Shelley F., Currie, Bart J.
Scabies is a worldwide disease and a major public health problem in many developing countries, related primarily to poverty and overcrowding. In remote Aboriginal communities in northern Australia,...
Tuanyok, Apichai, Auerbach, Raymond K., Brettin, Thomas S., Bruce, David C., Munk, A. Christine, Detter, J. Chris, ...
Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiologic agent of melioidosis. Many disease manifestations are associated with melioidosis, and the mechanisms causing this variation are unknown; genomic...
Recovery of a Burkholderia thailandensis-like isolate from an Australian water source
Gee, Jay E, Glass, Mindy B, Novak, Ryan T, Gal, Daniel, Mayo, Mark J, Steigerwalt, Arnold G, ...
Genetic Diversity of Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates in Australia▿
Cheng, Allen C., Ward, Linda, Godoy, Daniel, Norton, Robert, Mayo, Mark, Gal, Daniel, ...
Melioidosis is caused by the gram-negative saprophytic bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is endemic to southeast Asia and northern Australia. We have previously found evidence of geographic...
Burkholderia pseudomallei genome plasticity associated with genomic island variation
Tumapa, Sarinna, Holden, Matthew TG, Vesaratchavest, Mongkol, Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Limmathurotsakul, Direk, Chierakul, Wirongrong, ...
Sitthidet, Chayada, Stevens, Joanne M., Chantratita, Narisara, Currie, Bart J., Peacock, Sharon J., Korbsrisate, Sunee, ...
Actin-based motility of the melioidosis pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei requires BimA. We report a high degree of conservation of bimA in 99 B. pseudomallei isolates from the area of endemicity. A...
Genomic islands from five strains of Burkholderia pseudomallei
Tuanyok, Apichai, Leadem, Benjamin R, Auerbach, Raymond K, Beckstrom-Sternberg, Stephen M, Beckstrom-Sternberg, James S, Mayo, Mark, ...
Management of Accidental Laboratory Exposure to Burkholderia pseudomallei and B. mallei
Peacock, Sharon J., Schweizer, Herbert P., Dance, David A.B., Smith, Theresa L., Gee, Jay E., Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, ...
Kaestli, Mirjam, Mayo, Mark, Harrington, Glenda, Ward, Linda, Watt, Felicity, Hill, Jason V., ...
Melioidosis is a severe disease affecting humans and animals in the tropics. It is caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which lives in tropical soil and especially occurs in southeast...
Identification of Melioidosis Outbreak by Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis
Currie, Bart J., Haslem, Asha, Pearson, Talima, Hornstra, Heidie, Leadem, Benjamin, Mayo, Mark, ...
One-sentence summary for table of contents: This analysis can identify a clonal outbreak of this disease within 8 hours of receipt of bacterial isolates.
Clucas, Danielle B, Carville, Kylie S, Connors, Christine, Currie, Bart J, Carapetis, Jonathan R, Andrews, Ross M
Ivermectin worthy of further investigation
Steer, Andrew C, Kearns, Therese, Andrews, Ross M, McCarthy, James S, Carapetis, Jonathan R, Currie, Bart J
Andrews, Ross M., Kearns, Therese, Connors, Christine, Parker, Colin, Carville, Kylie, Currie, Bart J., ...
Skin infections are endemic in many in remote Australian Aboriginal communities and have been linked to very high rates of chronic heart and kidney disease in this population. We report the results...