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Diverse Roles for the Extracellular Glycome of Extra-intestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli in Serum Resistance and more
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Microbiology, 2023)Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) is a major cause of urinary tract infections, bacteraemia, and sepsis. This laboratory, among others, has previously shown that prototypic urosepsis strain CFT073 is ... -
Evaluating the role of angiogenesis in disease behaviour and therapy response in ulcerative colitis
Introduction Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory condition with a significant impact on quality of life. In this thesis two small molecule anti-angiogenic and anti-inflammatory agents were used to treat tissue ... -
Evaluation of Next-Generation Sequencing to Investigate the Epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile Infection
Introduction: Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is an anaerobic bacteria, which can cause gastrointestinal infection. There are approximately 2,000 cases of C. difficile infection (CDI) diagnosed in Ireland per year, ... -
Evaluation of an in-house six-well screening plate as a means of detecting phenotypic triazole resistance in St. James's Hospital, Dublin with emphasis on Aspergillus fumigatus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Microbiology, 2022)Aspergillus fumigatus is a ubiquitous saprophytic mould fungus found in nature. This fungus is present in the air, in soil, in foliage in our food stock and on inanimate surfaces. For healthy individuals, A. fumigatus poses ... -
Investigating the Role of Extracellular Polysaccharides in Biofilm Formation of Klebsiella pneumoniae
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Microbiology, 2020)Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is the most significant and clinically relevant species in the Klebsiella genus of Enterobacteriaceae and is the causative agent of a variety of infections, including pneumonia, urinary ...