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Gray-Hammerton, Charlotte J., Hooton, Steven P., Sands, Kirsty, Walsh, Timothy R., Orbegozo Rubio, Claudia, Portal, Edward A. R., Hudson, Christopher, Stekel, Dov J., Dodd, Christine E. R. and Hobman, Jon L. 2025. Sublethal concentrations of antibiotics enhance transmission of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental Escherichia coli. Frontiers in Microbiology 16 , 1675089. 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1675089
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Basak, Priyanka, Naha, Sharmi, Sands, Kirsty, Dutta, Subhajit, Mukherjee, Suchandra, Saha, Bijan, Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 and Basu, Sulagna 2025. Genomic similarity of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales collected from mothers and their neonates. Journal of Global Antimicrobial resistance 44 , pp. 166-179. 10.1016/j.jgar.2025.06.004
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Sands, Kirsty, Lankapalli, Aditya Kumar, Lai, Giulia, Hassan, Brekhna, Portal, Edward A. R., Mathias, Jordan A. T., Boostrom, Ian, Li, Mei, Cook, Kate, Premchand-Branker, Shonnette, Jones, Lim S., Sayinzonga-Makombe, Nathan, Isanaka, Sheila, Kanapathipillai, Rupa, Mambula, Christopher, Mouniaman, Isabelle, Langendorf, Céline, Walsh, Timothy R. and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2025. Acquisition of Escherichia coli carrying extended-spectrum ß-lactamase and carbapenemase genes by hospitalised children with severe acute malnutrition in Niger. Nature Communications 16 (1) , 6751. 10.1038/s41467-025-61718-w
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Akpulu, Chinenye, Yakubu, Rashida, Tukur, Fatima, Yusuf, Ashiru H., Kassim, Aisha, Mukaddas, Aisha, Adeleye, Adeola, Alkali, Fatima, Maduekwe, Augustine O., Nsude, Queen, Asunugwo, Vivian, Okenu, Mary-Joe, Yakubu, Samuel, Audu, Lamidi, Amsa, Mairami, Modibbo, Fatima Isa, Thomson, Kathryn, Achi, Chioma R., Iregbu, Kenneth C., Walsh, Timothy R. and Sands, Kirsty 2025. Beyond the samples: Nigerian research staff perspectives on a multicentre neonatal sepsis study’s impact. Nature Communications 16 (1) , 6745. 10.1038/s41467-025-62102-4
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Cook, Kate, Premchand-Branker, Shonnette, Nieto-Rosado, Maria, Portal, Edward A.R., Li, Mei, Rubio, Claudia Orbegozo, Mathias, Jordan, Aziz, Jawaria, Iregbu, Kenneth, Afegbua, Seniyat Larai, Aliyu, Aminu, Mohammed, Yahaya, Nwafia, Ifeyinwa, Oduyebo, Oyinlola, Ibrahim, Abdulrasul, Tanko, Zainab, Walsh, Timothy R., Achi, Chioma and Sands, Kirsty 2025. Flies as carriers of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria in Nigerian hospitals: A workflow for surveillance of AMR bacteria carried by arthropod pests in hospital settings. Environment International 196 , 109294. 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109294
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Nieto-Rosado, Maria, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward A. R., Thomson, Kathryn M., Carvalho, Maria J., Mathias, Jordan, Milton, Rebecca, Dyer, Calie, Akpulu, Chinenye, Boostrom, Ian, Hogan, Patrick, Saif, Habiba, Sanches Ferreira, Ana D., Hender, Thomas, Portal, Barbra, Andrews, Robert, Watkins, W. John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Zahra, Rabaab, Shirazi, Haider, Muhammad, Adil, Ullah, Syed Najeeb, Jan, Muhammad Hilal, Akif, Shermeen, Iregbu, Kenneth C., Modibbo, Fatima, Uwaezuoke, Stella, Audu, Lamidi, Edwin, Chinago P., Yusuf, Ashiru H., Adeleye, Adeola, Mukkadas, Aisha S., Mazarati, Jean Baptiste, Rucogoza, Aniceth, Gaju, Lucie, Mehtar, Shaheen, Bulabula, Andrew N. H., Whitelaw, Andrew, Roberts, Lauren, Chan, Grace, Bekele, Delayehu, Solomon, Semaria, Abayneh, Mahlet, Metaferia, Gesit, Group BARNARDS and Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2024. Colonisation of hospital surfaces from low- and middle-income countries by extended spectrum β-lactamase- and carbapenemase-producing bacteria. Nature Communications 15 , 2758. 10.1038/s41467-024-46684-z
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Portal, E. A. R., Sands, K., Farley, C., Boostrom, I., Jones, E., Barrell, M., Carvalho, M. J., Milton, R., Iregbu, K., Modibbo, F., Uwaezuoke, S., Akpulu, C., Audu, L., Edwin, C., Yusuf, A. H., Adeleye, A., Mukkadas, A. S., Maduekwe, D., Gambo, S., Sani, J., Walsh, T. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 and Spiller, O. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2024. Characterisation of colistin resistance in Gram-negative microbiota of pregnant women and neonates in Nigeria. Nature Communications 15 (1) , 2302. 10.1038/s41467-024-45673-6
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Naha, Sharmi, Basak, Priyanka, Sands, Kirsty, Milton, Rebecca, Carvalho, Maria J., Mitra, Shravani, Bhattacharjee, Amrita, Sinha, Anuradha, Mukherjee, Suchandra, Saha, Bijan, Chattopadhyay, Pinaki, Chakravorty, Partha Sarathi, Nandy, Ranjan Kumar, Dutta, Shanta, Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 and Basu, Sulagna 2023. Carriage and within-host diversity of mcr-1.1-harboring Escherichia coli from pregnant mothers: inter- and intra-mother transmission dynamics of mcr-1.1. Emerging Microbes & Infections 12 , 2278899. 10.1080/22221751.2023.2278899
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Bhattacharjee, Amrita, Sands, Kirsty, Mitra, Shravani, Basu, Ritojeet, Saha, Bijan, Clermont, Olivier, Dutta, Shanta, Basu, Sulagna, Papp-Wallace, Krisztina M. and Saito, Jumpei 2023. A decade-long evaluation of neonatal septicaemic escherichia coli: Clonal lineages, genomes, and New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase variants. Microbiology Spectrum 11 (4) 10.1128/spectrum.05215-22
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David, Sophia, Mentasti, Massimo, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Graham, Lee, Watkins, Joanne, Williams, Catie, Healy, Brendan, Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911, Aanensen, David M., Wootton, Mandy and Jones, Lim 2023. Genomic surveillance of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella in Wales reveals persistent spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 and adaptive evolution of pOXA-48-like plasmids. Microbial Genomics 9 (5) 10.1099/mgen.0.001016
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Umair, Muhammad, Hassan, Brekhna, Farzana, Refath, Ali, Qasim, Sands, Kirsty, Mathias, Jordan, Afegbua, Seniyat, Haque, Mohammad Nazmul, Walsh, Timothy R. and Mohsin, Mashkoor 2023. International manufacturing and trade in colistin, its implications in colistin resistance and One Health global policies: a microbiological, economic, and anthropological study. The Lancet Microbe 4 (4) , E264-E276. 10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00387-1
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Khan, Uzma Basit, Portal, Edward A. R., Sands, Kirsty, Lo, Stephanie, Chalker, Victoria J., Jauneikaite, Elita and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2023. Genomic analysis reveals new integrative conjugal elements and transposons in GBS conferring antimicrobial resistance. Antibiotics 12 (3) , 544. 10.3390/antibiotics12030544
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Farzana, Refath, Jones, Lim S., Rahman, Md Sadikur, Sands, Kirsty, van Tonder, Andries J., Portal, Edward, Munoz Criollo, Jose, Parkhill, Julian, Guest, Martyn F., Watkins, W. John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Pervin, Monira, Boostrom, Ian, Hassan, Brekhna, Mathias, Jordan, Kalam, Md. Abul and Walsh, Timothy R. 2023. Genomic insights into the mechanism of carbapenem resistance dissemination in Enterobacterales from a tertiary public heath setting in South Asia. Clinical Infectious Diseases 76 (1) , pp. 119-133. 10.1093/cid/ciac287
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Carvalho, M. J., Sands, K., Thomson, K., Portal, E., Mathias, J., Milton, R., Gillespie, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6934-2928, Dyer, C., Akpulu, C., Boostrom, I., Hogan, P., Saif, H., Ferreira, A., Nieto, M., Hender, T., Hood, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5268-8631, Andrews, R., Watkins, W. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Hassan, B., Chan, G., Bekele, D., Solomon, S., Metaferia, G., Basu, S., Naha, S., Sinha, A., Chakravorty, P., Mukherjee, S., Iregbu, K., Modibbo, F., Uwaezuoke, S., Audu, L., Edwin, C. P., Yusuf, A. H., Adeleye, A., Mukkadas, A. S., Zahra, R., Shirazi, H., Muhammad, A., Ullah, S. N., Jan, M. H., Akif, S., Mazarati, J. B., Rucogoza, A., Gaju, L., Mehtar, S., Bulabula, A. N. H., Whitelaw, A., Roberts, L. and Walsh, T. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2022. Antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of mothers and linked neonates with or without sepsis from low- and middle-income countries. Nature Microbiology 7 , pp. 1337-1347. 10.1038/s41564-022-01184-y
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Martins, Willames M.B.S., Cino, Juliana, Lenzi, Michael H., Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Hassan, Brekhna, Dantas, Priscila P., Migliavacca, Roberta, Medeiros, Eduardo A., Gales, Ana C. and Toleman, Mark A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9497-0512 2022. Diversity of lytic bacteriophages against XDR Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 16 recovered from sewage samples in different parts of the world. Science of the Total Environment 839 , 156074. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156074
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Sands, Kirsty, Carvalho, Maria J., Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911, Portal, Edward A. R., Thomson, Kathryn, Watkins, William John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Mathias, Jordan, Dyer, Calie, Akpulu, Chinenye, Andrews, Robert, Ferreira, Ana, Hender, Thomas, Milton, Rebecca, Nieto, Maria, Zahra, Rabaab, Shirazi, Haider, Muhammad, Adil, Akif, Shermeen, Jan, Muhammad Hilal, Iregbu, Kenneth, Modibbo, Fatima, Uwaezuoke, Stella, Chan, Grace J., Bekele, Delayehu, Solomon, Semaria, Basu, Sulagna, Nandy, Ranjan Kumar, Naha, Sharmi, Mazarati, Jean-Baptiste, Rucogoza, Aniceth, Gaju, Lucie, Mehtar, Shaheen, Bulabula, Andre N. H., Whitelaw, Andrew and Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2022. Characterisation of Staphylococci species from neonatal blood cultures in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Infectious Diseases 22 (1) , 593. 10.1186/s12879-022-07541-w
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Martins, Willames M.B.S., Lenzi, Michael H., Narciso, Ana C., Dantas, Priscila P., Andrey, Diego O., Yang, Qiu E., Sands, Kirsty, Medeiros, Eduardo A., Walsh, Timothy R. and Gales, Ana C. 2022. Silent circulation of BKC-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST442: molecular and clinical characterization of an early and unreported outbreak. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 59 (5) , 106568. 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2022.106568
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Milton, Rebecca, Gillespie, David, Dyer, Calie, Taiyari, Khadijeh, Carvalho, Maria J, Thomson, Kathryn, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward A.R., Hood, Kerenza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5268-8631, Ferreira, Ana, Hender, Thomas, Kirby, Nigel, Mathias, Jordan, Nieto, Maria, Watkins, William J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Bekele, Delayehu, Abayneh, Mahlet, Solomon, Semaria, Basu, Sulagna, Nandy, Ranjan K., Saha, Bijan, Iregbu, Kenneth, Modibbo, Fatima Z., Uwaezuoke, Stella, Zahra, Rabaab, Shirazi, Haider, Najeeb, Syed U, Mazarati, Jean-Baptiste, Rucogoza, Aniceth, Gaju, Lucie, Mehtar, Shaheen, Bulabula, Andre N. H., Whitelaw, Andrew C., Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096, Chan, Grace J, Odumade, Oludare, Ambachew, Rozina, Yohannes, Zenebe Gebre, Metaferia, Gesit, Workneh, Redeat, Biteye, Tefera, Mohammed, Yahya Zekaria, Teklu, Alula M, Nigatu, Balkachew, Gezahegn, Wendimagegn, Chakravorty, Partha Sarathi, Naha, Sharmi, Mukherjee, Anuradha, Umar, Khairiyya Muhammad, Akunna, Asunugwo Vivian, Nsude, Queen, Uke, Ifeoma, Okenu, Mary-Joe, Akpulu, Chinenye, Mmadueke, Chukwuemeka, Yakubu, Samuel, Audu, Lamidi, Idris, Nura, Gambo, Safiya, Ibrahim, Jamila, Chinago, Edwin, Yusuf, Ashiru, Gwadabe, Shamsudden, Adeleye, Adeola, Aliyu, Muhammad, Muhammad, Amina, Kassim, Aishatu, Mukaddas, Aisha Sani, Khalid, Rashida Yakubu, Alkali, Fatima Ibrahim, Muhammad, Maryam Yahaya, Tukur, Fatima Muhammad, Muhammad, Surayya Mustapha, Shittu, Adeola, Bello, Murjanatu, Sa ad, Fatima Habib, Zulfiqar, Shaheed, Muhammad, Adil, Jan, Muhammad Hilal and Paterson, Lauren 2022. Neonatal sepsis and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries from a facility-based birth cohort: an international multisite prospective observational study. The Lancet Global Health 10 (5) , e661-e672. 10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00043-2
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Acolatse, Joseph Elikem Efui, Portal, Edward A. R., Boostrom, Ian, Akafity, George, Dakroah, Mavis Puopelle, Chalker, Victoria J., Sands, Kirsty and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2022. Environmental surveillance of ESBL and carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacteria in a Ghanaian Tertiary Hospital. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 11 (1) , 49. 10.1186/s13756-022-01090-2
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Sands, Kirsty, Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911, Thomson, Kathryn, Portal, Edward A. R., Iregbu, Kenneth C. and Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2022. Early-onset neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries: current challenges and future opportunities. Infection and Drug Resistance 2022 , 933—946. 10.2147/IDR.S294156
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Boostrom, Ian, Portal, Edward A. R., Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911, Walsh, Timothy R. and Sands, Kirsty 2022. Comparing long-read assemblers to explore the potential of a sustainable low-cost, low-infrastructure approach to sequence antimicrobial resistant bacteria with Oxford nanopore sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology 13 , 796465. 10.3389/fmicb.2022.796465
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Martins, Willames M. B. S., Li, Mei, Sands, Kirsty, Lenzi, Michael H., Portal, Edward, Mathias, Jordan, Dantas, Priscila, Migliavacca, Roberta, Hunter, James R., Medeiros, Eduardo A., Gales, Ana C. and Toleman, Mark A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9497-0512 2022. Effective phage cocktail to combat the rising incidence of extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 16. Emerging Microbes and Infections 11 (1) , 1015 -1023. 10.1080/22221751.2022.2051752
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Boostrom, Ian, Bala, Yohan, Vasic, Jelena Minic, Gluvakov, Jelena, Chanard, Emmanuel, Barratt, Andrew H., Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Devigne, Laurence, Jones, Lucy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3872-4376 and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2021. Evaluation of the MYCOPLASMA IST3 urogenital mycoplasma assay in an international multicentre trial. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 76 (12) , pp. 3175-3182. 10.1093/jac/dkab320
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Thomson, Kathryn M., Dyer, Calie, Liu, Feiyan, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Carvalho, Maria J., Barrell, Matthew, Boostrom, Ian, Dunachie, Susanna, Farzana, Refath, Ferreira, Ana, Frayne, Francis, Hassan, Brekhna, Jones, Ellis, Jones, Lim, Mathias, Jordan, Milton, Rebecca, Rees, Jessica, Chan, Grace J., Bekele, Delayehu, Mahlet, Abayneh, Basu, Sulagna, Nandy, Ranjan K., Saha, Bijan, Iregbu, Kenneth, Modibbo, Fatima, Uwaezuoke, Stella, Zahra, Rabaab, Shirazi, Haider, Syed, Najeeb U., Mazarati, Jean-Baptiste, Rucogoza, Aniceth, Gaju, Lucie, Mehtar, Shaheen, Bulabula, Andre N. H., Whitelaw, Andrew, van Hasselt, Johan G. C., Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096, Saha, Samir, Islam, Maksuda, Bin-Ahmed, Zabed, Ahmed, Wazir, Begum, Taslima, Chowdhury, Mitu, Sharmin, Shaila, Rani Dey, Chumki, Uttam, Matin, Abdul, Chakraborty, Sowmitra Ranjan, Tasmin, Sadia, Rema, Dipa, Khatun, Rashida, Nath, Liza, Balkachew, Nigatu, Bekele, Delayehu, Schaughency, Katherine, Solomon, Semaria, Gebreyohanes, Zenebe, Ambachew, Rozina, Odumade, Oludare, Haileselassie, Misgana, Chan, Grace, Russo, Abigail, Workneh, Redeat, Metaferia, Gesit, Abayneh, Mahlet, Mohammed, Yahya Zekaria, Biteye, Tefera, Teklu, Alula, Gezahegn, Wendimagegn, Chakravorty, Partha Sarathi, Mukherjee, Anuradha, Nandy, Ranjan Kumar, Roy, Samarpan, Sinha, Anuradha, Naha, Sharmi, Malakar, Sukla Saha, Bose, Siddhartha, Majhi, Monaki, Sahoo, Subhasree, Mukherjee, Putul, Routa, Sumitra Kumari, Nandi, Chaitali, Basu, Sulagna, Saha, Bijan, Chattopadhyay, Pinaki, Modibbo, Fatima Zara Isa, Uwaezuoke, Stella, Meduekwe, Dilichukwu, Muhammad, Khairiyya, Nsude, Queen, Ukeh, Ifeoma, Okenu, Mary-Joe, Chinenye, Akpulu, Yakubu, Samuel, Asunugwo, Vivian, Aina, Folake, Issy, Isibong, Adekeye, Dolapo, Eunice, Adiele, Amina, Abdulmlik, Oyewole, R., Oloton, I., Nnaji, B.C., Umejiego, M., Anoke, P.N., Adebayo, S., Abegunrin, G.O., Omotosho, O.B., Ibrahim, R., Igwe, B., Abroko, M., Balami, K., Bayem, L.., Anyanwu, C., Haruna, H., Okike, J, Goroh, K., Boi-Sunday, M., Ugafor, Augusta, Makama, Maryam, Ndukwe, Kaniba, Odama, Anastesia, Yusuf, Hadiza, Wachukwu, Patience, Yahaya, Kachalla, Kalade Colsons, Titus, Kura, Mercy, Orebiyi, Damilola, Iregbu, Kenneth C., Mmadueke, Chukwuemeka, Audu, Lamidi, Idris, Nura, Gambo, Safiya, Ibrahim, Jamila, Precious, Edwin, Hassan, Ashiru, Gwadabe, Shamsudden, Adeleye Falola, Adeola, Aliyu, Muhammad, Ibrahim, Amina, Mukaddas, Aisha Sani, Khalid, Rashida Yakubu, Alkali, Fatima Ibrahim, Muhammad, Maryam Yahaya, Tukur, Fatima Mohammad, Muhammad, Surayya Mustapha, Shittu, Adeola, Bello, Murjanatu, Hassan, Muhammad Abubakar, Sa ad, Fatima Habib, Kassim, Aishatu, Shirazi, Haider, Muhammad, Adil, Zahra, Rabaab, Ullah, Syed Najeeb, Hilal Jan, Muhammad, Kamran, Rubina, Sajana, Saeed, Jazba, Maqsood, Noreen, Zafar, Maria, Sadiq, Saraeen, Ahsan, Sumble, Tariq, Madiha, Sajid, Sidra, Mustafa, Hasma, Rehman, Anees-ur, Muhammad, Atif, Mehmood, Gahssan, Nisar, Mahnoor, Akif, Shermeen, Yasmeen, Tahira, Nawaz, Sabir, Atta, Anam Shanal, Laiq-ur-Rehman, Mian, Kousar, Robina, Bibi, Kalsoom, Waheed, Kosar, Majeed, Zainab, Jalil, Ayesha, Kajibwami, Espoir, Rucogoza, Aniceth, Nzabahimana, Innocent, Jean-Baptiste, Mazarati, Gaju, Lucie, Riziki, Kankundiye, Uwamahoro, Brigette, Uwera, Rachel, Nyiratuza, Eugenie, Muzungu, Kumwami, Uwitonze, Violette, Horanimpundu, Marie C, Nzeyimana, Francine, Mitima, Prince, Dramowski, Angela, Whitelaw, Andrew, Paterson, Lauren, Frans, Mary, Johnson, Marvina, Swanepoel, Eveline, Bojana, Zoleka, du Preez, Mieme, Mehtar, Shaheen, Bulabula, Andre, Liu, Feiyan, van Hasselt, Johan G.C., Walsh, Timothy, Sands, Kirsty, Carvalho, Maria, Milton, Rebecca, Thomson, Kathryn, Portal, Edward, Mathias, Jordan, Dyer, Calie, Ferreira, Ana, Andrews, Robert, Watkins, John, Gillespie, David, Hood, Kerry, Taiyai, Katie, Kirby, Nigel, Nieto, Maria, Hender, Thomas, Hogan, Patrick, Saif, Habiba, Hassan, Brekhna, Jones, Ellis, Barrell, Matthew, Boostrom, Ian, Frayne, Francis, Rees, Jessica, Jones, Lim, Dunachie, Susanna, Spiller, Brad and Parkhill, Julian 2021. Effects of antibiotic resistance, drug target attainment, bacterial pathogenicity and virulence, and antibiotic access and affordability on outcomes in neonatal sepsis: an international microbiology and drug evaluation prospective substudy (BARNARDS). The Lancet Infectious Diseases 21 (12) , pp. 1677-1688. 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00050-5
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Sharratt, Martin, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward A. R., Boostrom, Ian, Mondeja, Brian A., Rodríguez, Nadia M., Jones, Lucy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3872-4376 and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2021. Defining fluoroquinolone resistance-mediating mutations from non-resistance polymorphisms in Mycoplasma hominis Topoisomerases. Antibiotics 10 (11) , 1379. 10.3390/antibiotics10111379
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Spiller-Boulter, Oliver, Paukner, Susanne, Boostrom, Ian, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward A. R. and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2021. Determination of in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility for Lefamulin (Pleuromutilin) for Ureaplasma Spp. and Mycoplasma hominis. Antibiotics 10 (11) , 1370. 10.3390/antibiotics10111370
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Hassan, Brekhna, Ijaz, Muhammad, Khan, Asadullah, Sands, Kirsty, Serfas, Georgios Ion, Clayfield, Liam, El-Bouseary, Maisra Mohammed, Lai, Giulia, Portal, Edward, Khan, Afifah, Watkins, William J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Parkhill, Julian and Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2021. A role for arthropods as vectors of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales in surgical site infections from South Asia. Nature Microbiology 6 (10) , p. 1270. 10.1038/s41564-021-00965-1

Portal, Edward, Sands, Kirsty, Portnojs, Artjoms, Chalker, Victoria J. and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2021. Legionella antimicrobial sensitivity testing: comparison of microbroth dilution with BCYE and LASARUS solid media. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 76 (5) , pp. 1197-1204. 10.1093/jac/dkaa535
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Sands, Kirsty, Carvalho, Maria J., Portal, Edward, Thomson, Kathryn, Dyer, Calie, Akpulu, Chinenye, Andrews, Robert, Ferreira, Ana, Gillespie, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6934-2928, Hender, Thomas, Hood, Kerenza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5268-8631, Mathias, Jordan, Milton, Rebecca, Nieto, Maria, Taiyari, Khadijeh, Chan, Grace J., Bekele, Delayehu, Solomon, Semaria, Basu, Sulagna, Chattopadhyay, Pinaki, Mukherjee, Suchandra, Iregbu, Kenneth, Modibbo, Fatima, Uwaezuoke, Stella, Zahra, Rabaab, Shiazi, Haider, Muhammad, Adil, Mazarati, Jean-Baptiste, Rucogoza, Aniceth, Gaju, Luci, Mehtar, Shaheen, Bulabula, Andre N. H., Whitelaw, Andrew, Group, BARNARDS and Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2021. Characterization of antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative bacteria that cause neonatal sepsis in seven low and middle-income countries. Nature Microbiology 6 , 512–523. 10.1038/s41564-021-00870-7
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Mentasti, M., David, S., Sands, K., Khan, S., Davies, L., Turner, L. and Wootton, M. 2021. Rapid detection and differentiation of mobile colistin resistance (mcr-1 to mcr-10) genes by real-time PCR and melt-curve analysis. Journal of Hospital Infection 110 , pp. 148-155. 10.1016/j.jhin.2021.01.010
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Tansawai, Uttapoln, Yu, Yang, Kiddee, Anong, Assawatheptawee, Kanit, Sands, Kirsty, Hassan, Brekhna, Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 and Niumsup, Pannika R. 2021. Emergence of mcr-3-mediated IncP and IncFII plasmids in Thailand. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 24 , pp. 446-447. 10.1016/j.jgar.2021.02.006
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Roch, Mélanie, Sierra, Roberto, Sands, Kirsty, Martins, Willames M.B.S., Schrenzel, Jacques, Walsh, Timothy R., Gales, Ana C. and Andrey, Diego O. 2021. Vertical and horizontal dissemination of an IncC plasmid harbouring rmtB 16S rRNA methylase gene, conferring resistance to plazomicin, among invasive ST258 and ST16 KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 24 , pp. 183-189. 10.1016/j.jgar.2020.12.006
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Chalker, Victoria J., Sharratt, Martin G., Rees, Christopher, Bell, Oliver H., Portal, Edward, Sands, Kirsty, Payne, Matthew S., Jones, Lucy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3872-4376 and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2021. Tetracycline resistance mediated by tet(M) has variable integrative conjugative element composition in Mycoplasma hominis isolated in the United Kingdom from 2005-2015. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 65 , e02513-20. 10.1128/AAC.02513-20
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Naha, Sharmi, Sands, Kirsty, Mukherjee, Subhankar, Saha, Bijan, Dutta, Shanta, Basu, Sulagna and Bradford, Patricia A. 2021. OXA-181-like carbapenemases in Klebsiella pneumoniae ST14, ST15, ST23, ST48, and ST231 from septicemic neonates: coexistence with NDM-5, resistome, transmissibility, and genome diversity. mSphere 6 (1) , e01156-20. 10.1128/mSphere.01156-20
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Morris, Daniel J., Jones, Lucy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3872-4376, Davies, Rebecca L., Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward and Spiller, Owen B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911 2020. MYCO WELL D-ONE detection of Ureaplasma spp. and Mycoplasma hominis in sexual health patients in Wales. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 39 , pp. 2427-2440. 10.1007/s10096-020-03993-7
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Martins, Willames M. B. S., Nicolas, Marisa F., Yu, Yang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9052-1245, Li, Mei, Dantas, Priscila, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Almeida, Luiz G. P., Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza R., Medeiros, Eduardo A., Toleman, Mark A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9497-0512, Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096, Gales, Ana C. and Andrey, Diego O. 2020. Clinical and molecular description of a high-copy IncQ1 KPC-2 plasmid harbored by the international ST15 Klebsiella pneumoniae clone. mSphere 5 , e00756-20. 10.1128/mSphere.00756-20
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Andrey, Diego O, Dantas, Priscila, Martins, Willames B S, Marques de Carvalho, Fabíola, Gonzaga, Luiz A, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Sauser, Julien, Cayô, Rodrigo, Nicolas, Marisa F, Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza R, Medeiros, Eduardo A, Walsh, Timothy R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 and Gales, Ana C 2020. An emerging clone, KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST16, associated with high mortality rates in a CC258 endemic setting. Clinical Infectious Diseases 71 (7) , e141-e150. 10.1093/cid/ciz1095
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Farzana, Refath, Jones, Lim S., Rahman, Md. Anisur, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Boostrom, Ian, Kalam, Md. Abul, Hasan, Brekhna, Khan, Afifah and Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2020. Molecular and epidemiological analysis of a Burkholderia cepacia sepsis outbreak from a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14 (4) , e0008200. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008200
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Naha, Sharmi, Sands, Kirsty, Mukherjee, Subhankar, Roy, Chayan, Rameez, Moidu Jameela, Saha, Bijan, Dutta, Shanta, Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 and Basu, Sulagna 2020. KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST147 in a neonatal unit: Clonal isolates with differences in colistin susceptibility attributed to AcrAB-TolC pump. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 55 (3) , 105903. 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105903
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Yee Lim, Sim, Dafydd, Mali, Ong, Jee, Ord-McDermott, Launa A., Board-Davies, Emma, Sands, Kirsty, Williams, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7351-5131, Sloan, Alastair J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-0903 and Heard, Charles M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9703-9777 2020. Mucoadhesive thin films for the simultaneous delivery of microbicide and anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of periodontal diseases. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 573 , 118860. 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.118860
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Mentasti, Massimo, Prime, Kerry, Sands, Kirsty, Khan, Swati and Wootton, Mandy 2019. Rapid detection of IMP, NDM, VIM, KPC and OXA-48-like carbapenemases from enterobacteriales and gram-negative non-fermenter bacteria by real-time PCR and melt-curve analysis. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 38 (11) , pp. 2029-2036. 10.1007/s10096-019-03637-5
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Farzana, Refath, Jones, Lim S, Rahman, Md. Anisur, Toleman, Mark A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9497-0512, Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Boostrom, Ian, Kalam, Md. Abul, Hassan, Brekhna, Uddin, AKM Nasir and Walsh, Timothy R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2019. Emergence of mcr-1 mediated colistin resistant Escherichia coli from a hospitalized patient in Bangladesh. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 13 (08) , pp. 773-776. 10.3855/jidc.11541
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Farzana, Refath, Jones, Lim S., Rahman, Md Anisur, Andrey, Diego O., Sands, Kirsty, Portal, Edward, Watkins, W. John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Pervin, Monira, Banerjee, Manisha and Walsh, Timothy R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2019. Outbreak of hypervirulent multi-drug resistant Klebsiella variicola causing high mortality in neonates in Bangladesh. Clinical Infectious Diseases 7 , pp. 1225-1227. 10.1093/cid/ciy778
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Yang, Qiu E., Tansawai, Uttapoln, Andrey, Diego O., Wang, Shaolin, Wang, Yang, Sands, Kirsty, Kiddee, Anong, Assawatheptawee, Kanit, Bunchu, Nophawan, Hassan, Brekhna, Walsh, Timothy Rutland ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 and Niumsup, Pannika R. 2019. Environmental dissemination of mcr-1 positive Enterobacteriaceae by Chrysomya spp. (common blowfly): An increasing public health risk. Environment International 122 , pp. 281-290. 10.1016/j.envint.2018.11.021
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Sands, Kirsty M., Wilson, Melanie J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8834-8268, Lewis, Michael A. O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1917-0651, Wise, Matt P., Palmer, Nicki, Hayes, Anthony J., Barnes, Rosemary A. and Williams, David W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7351-5131 2017. Respiratory pathogen colonisation of dental plaque, the lower airways and endotracheal tube biofilms during mechanical ventilation. Journal of Critical Care 37 , pp. 30-37. 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.07.019
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