Tuesday, 8th July
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2014
Days
Saturday, 5th July
Sunday, 6th July
Monday, 7th July
Tuesday, 8th July
Wednesday, 9th July
Tracks
Division 1 - Medical & Veterinary Microbiology
Division 2 - Virology
Division 3 - General, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Division 4 - Microbial Genetics, Physiology and Pathogenesis
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Speakers
Plenary 3 - Anne Dell
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: John Boyce
Glycomics and glycoproteomics: Powerful Technologies for Microbiology
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Anne Dell
Plenary 4 - Rino Rappuoli
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Enzo Palombo
New horizons for vaccines
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Rino Rappuoli
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Symposium 1.4 - STI and Public Health
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Benjamin Howden
Div. 1 Sexually transmitted infections and public health
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Sheila Lukehart
Molecular epidemiology of
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
in Australia.
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David Whiley
Vaccination for HPV infection in men who have sex with men
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Christopher Fairley
Comparison of Continuous Random Access Testing for C. trachomatis on a Panther Instrument to Batch Testing With cobas CT/NG on cobas 4800 and ProbeTec ET CT/GC Qx on Viper
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Max Chernesky
Symposium 2.4 - Viral Immunology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 3
Chair: Paul Young
Helping the helpers: Boosting cellular immunity to influenza A virus infection
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Stephen J Turner
Pulmonary Eosinophils Responding to Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine-Enhanced Disease Promote Inflammatory and Antiviral Activity
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Suresh Mahalingam
Why do we have so many type I IFNs? Functional Redundancy or specific actions.
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Paul Hertzog
Immunity to the newly emerged A/H7N9 influenza virus
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Katherine Kedzierska
Symposium 3.4 - Agriculture and soil system microbiology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 4
Chair: John Bowman
Microbial Modulators of Soil Carbon Storage: Evidence from Molecular biology and Genomics
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Brajesh Singh
Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities.
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Tristrom Winsley
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF PATHOGEN INFESTATION ON POST-HARVEST STRAWBERRY FRUITS USING BACTERIOPHAGES
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Dilber Ipek Kurtboke
Distribution and dynamics of microbial communities in Australian soils
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Andrew Bissett
Symposium 4.4 - Metagenomics and pathogenomics
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Element Room
Chair: Timothy Stinear
The gut microbiome: the "x-factor" affecting genotype x environment x lifestyle interactions of inflammatory bowel diseases?
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Mark Morrison
Using genomics to unravel the complexities of surface polysaccharides in
Acinetobacter baumannii
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Johanna J Kenyon
Genome and transcriptome of the porcine whipworm
Trichuris suis
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Aaron R Jex
TBA
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Torsten Seemann
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Clinical Serology and Molecular SIG
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 1 & 2
Public Health Microbiology
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 3
Hologic Lunch Symposium
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 4
CDS Workshop
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Element Room
BD Awards
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Cheryl Power
Pyrosequencing-based characterisation of the gastrointestinal microbiota of commercially farmed Atlantic salmon (
Salmo salar
L.) in south-eastern Tasmania
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Kamarul Zaman Zarkasi
Identification, characterisation and treatment of
B. pseudomallei
in bore water supplies associated with melioidosis cases in northern Australia.
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Evan McRobb
Defining interactions between the dengue virus NS3 protease and its cofactor NS2B by site-directed mutagenesis
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Ashleigh E Shannon
Phylogeny and virulence of atypical enteropathogenic
Escherichia coli
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Danielle Ingle
Whole genome sequencing and bacteriophages of
Moraxella catarrhalis
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Amir Ariff
Bowel movement: resistance plasmid transfer in the gut
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Robert A Moran
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Symposium 1.5 - Public Health/Technology
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: David Whiley
Microbiological and epidemiological features of MDR-TB outbreak in Mongolia
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Ulziijargal Gurjav
Virus like particles as a novel means for presenting bacterial epitopes
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Michael Kotiw
Utility of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for inferring prevalent
Salmonella
Enterica serotypes
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Cristina Sotomayor
Protein specific antibody responses to conserved antigens of nontypeable
Haemophilus influenzae
and
Streptococcus pneumoniae
differ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children with otitis media - implications for vaccination?
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Ruth Thornton
A scabies mite serpin interferes with complement-mediated neutrophil functions and promotes staphylococcal growth
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Pearl M Swe
Respiratory syncytial virus and
Streptococcus pneumoniae
co-infections in severe paediatric respiratory infections
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Jaelle Brealey
Symposium 2.5 - Vaccine/Epi
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 3
Chair: Suresh Mahalingam
Genetic changes corresponding to the emergence of the norovirus epidemic strain GII.e/GII.4 (2012 and 2012-like)
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Leesa Bruggink
Characterisation of G1P[8] rotavirus strain associated with an outbreak of gastroenteritis in the Northern Territory post vaccine introduction
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Celeste Donato
A recombinase polymerase amplification assay for detection of the heterogeneous sequences encompassing Japanese Encephalitis virus
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Joanne Macdonald
Antiviral Potential of Catechins to Arrest Influenza Virus Infections with Confocal Microscopy and Computer-based Molecular Docking
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Patrick Mueller
Comparison of virulence determinants in West Nile virus NY99 and NSW2011 strains
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Yin Xiang Setoh
Inhibitory activity of natural bioactive components in Borneo plant extracts against NA inhibitor-resistant strains
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Dhivya Rajasekaran
Symposium 3.5 - Microbes at Work and Play
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 4
Chair: Ashley Franks
Stigmergy drives the self-organisation of
Myxococcus xanthus
interstitial biofilms
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Erin S Gloag
Production of the antibiotic tropodithietic acid (TDA) is an important factor mediating colonization and competition in
Phaeobacter inhibins
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Marwan Majzoub
Outer Membrane Vesicles of periodontal pathogens activate TLR and NOD pattern recognition receptors.
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Jessica D Cecil
A preliminary study of bacterial community during fermentation of Dadih using pyrosequencing and PCR ITS-RFLP
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Yoga Jatmiko
Managing soil microbial communities for food production and ecosystem health
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Gupta Vadakattu
Diazotroph dynamics across Australia’s oligotrophic oceans
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Lauren F Messer
Symposium 4.5 - Division 4 Proffered Papers II
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Element Room
Chair: Hayley Newton
The immunotherapeutic use of bovine colostrum against
Clostridium difficile
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Bliss A Cunningham
The polar targeting region of
Shigella flexneri
IcsA contains a conserved autotransporter motif that augments passenger domain secretion.
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Matthew T Doyle
Identification of the intracellular location and mechanisms of peptidoglycan recognition by the immune receptor NOD1.
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Maria Kaparakis-Liaskos
Addition of glucose to O antigen subunit by glycosyltransferase operons of
Salmonella Typhi
results in increased serum survival
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Erica Kintz
Characterisation of the galactose chemosensory receptor of
Campylobacter jejuni.
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Victoria Korolik
Inhibition of death receptor signaling by enteropathogenic E. coli
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Jaclyn Pearson
Break
5:00PM - 5:15PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Rubbo Oration - Roy Robins-Browne
5:15PM - 6:00PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Chair: Paul Young
Preparing for the Post-Antibiotic Era
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Roy Robins-Browne
Rubbo Reception & Poster Session C
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Tuesday, 8th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Characterization of a Putative Patatin-like Protein in
Porphyromonas gingivalis
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Caroline Moore
Production of Novel Platform Chemicals from Aromatic Wood Biomass by Microbial Fermentation
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Masaya Nakamura
Molecular analysis of the hindgut microbiota of juvenile and adult Rainbow trout (
Oncorhynchus mykiss
) farmed in Tasmania using diversity profiling
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Christina Neuman
Characterisation of a family of novel glycosyltransferases from
Salmonella
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Joshua Newson
Regulation of bacterial attachment through graphite-templated self-organized alkane microcrystal interfaces
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Song Ha Nguyen
Tracking the spread of extensively-antibiotic resistant
Acinetobacter baumannii
in Australia using whole-genome data.
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Steven J Nigro
Antimicrobial activities of the crude extracts of two Corymbia species and their hybrid
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Motahareh Nobakht
The effect of diacetyl rhein on biofilm formation of
Staphylococcus aureus
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Pavel Novy
Cellular viral RNA intermediates as novel targets for virus detection and discovery
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Caitlin A O'Brien
Debugging Crohn's disease
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Claire L O'Brien
Culture-independent Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype identification using multiplex PCR-based reverse line blot assay (mPCR/RLB) and cpsA-cpsB sequencing
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Shahin Oftadeh
A novel role for the DNA replication initiator protein, DnaA, in positioning the division site in
Bacillus subtilis.
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Hajime Okumura
A novel high-resolution melt PCR assay for genotyping
Ureaplasma parvum
directly from clinical samples: Association between genotypes and preterm birth.
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Matthew S Payne
Nanoscale architecture of titanium surfaces influences
Staphylococcus aureus
and
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
attachment
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Vy Pham
Bacterial communities under different redox conditions of an integrated anoxic-aerobic Membrane Bioreactor (AO-MBR)
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Hop V. Phan
Molecular characterization of
Burkholderia pseudomallei
from Malaysian Borneo
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Yuwana Podin
Whole Genome Sequence Typing: seeing the threes through the forest? Only with proper algorithms and quality control routines!
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Bruno Pot
An evaluation to find a practical and cost-effective approach to test for Clostridium difficile infection.
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Louise Prendergast
Accurate and rapid identification of common multilocus sequence types for the highly recombining pathogen
Burkholderia pseudomallei
using genomics and real-time PCR
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Erin P. Price
Evaluation of the BD MAXCdiff assay for detection of toxigenic
Clostridium difficile
in human stool specimens
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Papanin Putsathit
Characterising the
Clostridium sordellii
spore structure and protein composition
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Rebecca Rabi
The Burden of Helminth Disease in Queensland, 2003-2013
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Gemma Robertson
Characterisation of
Escherichia coli
B2 strains from waters of Sydney and Gold Coast regions
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Angelingifta Robinson
Immune evasion function of the m15 locus of murine cytomegalovirus
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Francois Rwandamuriye
The effect of trisodium phosphate and sodium hypochlorite on
Campylobacter
and
Salmonella
on duck, as compared to chicken, meat under simulated commercial processing conditions
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Amreeta Sarjit
SPANDx: integrated comparative analysis of haploid next-generation sequence data
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Derek S Sarovich
High-throughput screening of extremophile microalgae strains for the production of bio-kerosene
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Johannes Schmidt
Four hour extended incubation increases the sensitivity of the BinaxNOW Legionella ICT assay.
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Aideanna Seenarain
Comparison of conventional continuous pH measurement with fluorimetric and colorimetric microplate methodologies for monitoring activity of lactic acid bacteria
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Lucy M Sheehy
Hepevirus
: Does locally acquired infection occur more frequently than we think?
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Ashish C Shrestha
A Study of the Prevalence of Human Parechovirus at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Western Australia
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Melissa A Sjepcevich
In vitro growth-inhibitory effect of plant-derived compounds and their derivatives against diarrhea causing microorganisms
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Frantisek Smid
Safety and efficacy of topical bacteriophage and EDTA treatment of
Staphylococcus aureus
infection in a sheep model of sinusitis
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Peter Speck
Identification and FISH probe design for common activated sludge bulking filaments belonging to the phylum
Chloroflexi
, utilizing 454 amplicon sequence data and novel
in silico
data analysis tool OTUStalker.
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Lachlan B.M Speirs
Phasevarion mediated epigenetic virulence gene regulation in
Helicobacter pylori
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Yogitha N Srikhanta
The ModD1 epigenetic methyltransferase and transcriptional regulator from pathogenic
Neisseria meningitidis
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Aimee Tan
Porphyromonas gingivalis
and
Treponema denticola
exhibit metabolic symbioses
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Kheng H. Tan
The effect of the chemical components of plant cell wall models on the attachment of
Salmonella enterica
and
Listeria monocytogenes
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Michelle S. F. Tan
Gastric
Helicobacter
infection causes extra-gastric modulation of host iron metabolism genes independently of Cag PAI
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Melanie Thomson
Mycobacterial pathogenesis: comparative genomics between human and animal associated subspecies of the
Mycobacterium avium
complex
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Verlaine Timms
Novel Hepatitis B virus genotype C4 is uniquely found in Australian Indigenous populations: implications for vaccine efficacy and natural history of disease
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Steven Tong
A novel variant of the
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
penicillinase-producing plasmid
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Ella Trembizki
Detection of Helicobacter pylori stool antigens using the LIAISON H. pylori SA assay
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Megan Triantafilou
Culture vs PCR for the detection of Shigella species in faecal cultures
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Megan Triantafilou
Explosive cell lysis in bacterial biofilms produces membrane vesicles and extracellular DNA
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Lynne Turnbull
ESCHERICHIA COLI
IN POULTRY MEAT: PREVALENCE, RESISTANCE AND VIRULENCE
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Belinda L Vangchhia
Antibiotic resistance in the
E. coli
gut population of ICU patients after cefepime therapy
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Carola Venturini
Genomic evolution of
Burkholderia pseudomallei
in the Cystic Fibrosis lung
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Linda T Viberg
Using reverse genetics to study the activity of human rhinovirus 2A protease.
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Erin Walker
THE INS AND OUTS OF BAM: STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN ASSEMBLY MACHINERY.
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Chaille T Webb
Rapid conversion to a spherical cell morphotype enables
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
to tolerate exposure to beta-lactam antibiotics
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Cynthia B Whitchurch
Evaluation of Three Hepatitis C Assays - Murex anti-HCV 4.0 vs BIO-RAD Monolisa™ HCV Ag-Ab ULTRA & DiaSorin Liaison® XL Murex HCV Ab
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Bruce Wong
Evaluation of two
Helicobacter pylori
Assays – MP Biomedicals ASSURE
®
H. pylori
& SD BIOLINE
H. pylori
rapid tests
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Bruce Wong
Schistosoma
Serology – An Evaluation of NovaTec
Schistosoma mansoni
IgG ELISA
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Bruce Wong
Mapping potential substrate "docking" sites of the novel host cell death inhibiting bacterial enzyme NleB1
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Tania Wong
Capsular Locus Variability among a Multi-Drug Resistant
K. pneumoniae
Clone
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Kelly L Wyres
Antibacterial activity of a novel peptide-peptide nucleic acid conjugate antisensing the cytidine monophosphate kinase of
Staphylococcus aureus
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Jang Won Yoon
Identification of a distinct TAB3 binding domain in the bacterial cysteine methyltransferase effector NleE
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Ying Zhang
Extended vaccination of cows with HIV Env gp140 trimers offers ongoing production of HIV neutralising IgG in serum and colostrum
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Behnaz Heydarchi
First description of “Chalky back’” phenomenon in banana prawns (
Fenneropenaeus merguiensis
) and its possible association with
Vibrio
and
Photobacterium
species.
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Eva Hatje
Genogroup I, the forgotten norovirus?
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Leesa Bruggink
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