A Real-Time PCR Assay for the Detection of Campylobacter jejuni in Foods after Enrichment Culture

AD Sails, AJ Fox, FJ Bolton, DRA Wareing… - Applied and …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
A real-time PCR assay was developed for the quantitative detection of Campylobacter jejuni
in foods after enrichment culture. The specificity of the assay for C. jejuni was demonstrated …

Utility of Multilocus Sequence Typing as an Epidemiological Tool for Investigation of Outbreaks of Gastroenteritis Caused by Campylobacter jejuni

AD Sails, B Swaminathan, PI Fields - Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been proven useful for the study of the global
population structure of Campylobacter jejuni; however, its usefulness for the investigation of …

[HTML][HTML] Dental and microbiological risk factors for hospital-acquired pneumonia in non-ventilated older patients

VC Ewan, AD Sails, AWG Walls, S Rushton… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) is often fatal in older patients. The mouth is the main
reservoir of infection and studies have suggested that oral hygiene interventions may prevent …

Aetiology of paediatric pneumonia after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

MA Elemraid, AD Sails, GJA Eltringham… - European …, 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
We describe the aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia in children before and after
the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV) programme in 2006. …

[HTML][HTML] The current landscape of nucleic acid tests for filovirus detection

DJ Clark, J Tyson, AD Sails, S Krishna… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid testing (NAT) for pathogenic filoviruses plays a key role in surveillance and to
control the spread of infection. As they share clinical features with other pathogens, the initial …

Clonal Complexes of Campylobacter jejuni Identified by Multilocus Sequence Typing Correlate with Strain Associations Identified by Multilocus Enzyme …

AD Sails, B Swaminathan, PI Fields - Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with SmaI
were used to subtype 55 isolates of Campylobacter jejuni from a diverse range of human and …

Campylobacter jejuni strain variation.

C Fitzgerald, AD Sails, PI Fields - Campylobacter: molecular and …, 2005 - cabdirect.org
The diversity within Campylobacter jejuni is well established and has been detected at both
the phenotypic and genotypic level. The application of higher resolution molecular subtyping …

A case–control study to assess the urinary pneumococcal antigen test in childhood pneumonia

…, JE Clark, JD Perry, MF Thomas, AD Sails… - Clinical …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Urinary pneumococcal antigen is a rapid noninvasive test that may indicate recent invasive
pneumococcal infection1 or carriage, 2 and guide appropriate antibiotic therapy. 3, 4 It has …

A modular drag-deorbiting sail for large satellites in low Earth orbit

B Taylor, S Fellowes, B Dyer, A Viquerat… - AIAA Scitech 2020 …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
sail presented here is in keeping with previous drag sail systems developed at the Surrey
Space Centre (SSC). The sail … 1), which in turn was based on a series of earlier sail designs at …

Evaluation of the Cepheid respiratory syncytial virus and influenza virus A/B real-time PCR analyte specific reagent

AD Sails, D Saunders, S Airs, D Roberts… - Journal of virological …, 2009 - Elsevier
Two rapid real-time RT-PCR assays, specific for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza
A and B, were evaluated for the detection of these viruses in clinical respiratory samples. …