Publications

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Publications on Surfaces and Cleaning

Does size matter? The impact of a small but targeted cleaning training intervention within a paediatric ward

Rawlinson S, Asadi F, Saraqi H, Child B, Ciric L, Cloutman-Green E. IPIP 2020;2:4 December 2020


COVID-19 pandemic – let’s not forget surfaces

Rawlinson S, Ciric L, Cloutman-Green E. JHI; 2020:May 19


Surface Sampling Within a Pediatric Ward – How Multiple Factors Affect Cleaning Efficacy

Rawlinson S, Cloutman-Green E, Asadi F, Ciric L. AJIC 2020:July 48(7):740-745


How to carry out microbiological sampling of healthcare environment surfaces? A review of current evidence

Rawlinson S, Ciric L, Cloutman-Green E. J Hosp Infect. 2019:December 103(4):363-374


Development and implementation of a cleaning standard algorithm to monitor the efficiency of terminal cleaning in removing Adenovirus within a paediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation unit

Cloutman-Green E, Canales M, Pankhurst L, Evenor T, Malone D, Klein N, Ciric L, Hartley JC. Am J Infect Control. 2015 Sep; 43(9): 997-999.


Routine Monitoring of Adenovirus and Norovirus within the Healthcare Environment

Cloutman-Green E, Pankhurst L, Canales M, D’Arcy N, JC Hartley. Am J Infect Control. 2014 Nov;42(11):1229-32.


How Clean is Clean – Is a New Microbiological Standard Required?

Cloutman-Green E, D’Arcy N, Spratt DA, Hartley JC and Klein N. Am J Infect Control. 2014 Sep;42(9):1002-3.


Environmental viral contamination in a paediatric hospital: implications for infection control

D’Arcy N, Cloutman-Green E, Spratt DA, Hartley JC and Klein N. Am J Infect Control. 2014 Aug;42(8):856-60.


The important role of sink location in hand washing compliance and microbial sink contamination

Cloutman-Green E, Kalaycioglu O, Wojani H, Hartley JC, Guillas S, Malone D, Gant V, Grey C, Klein N. Am J Infect Control. 2014. Vol. 42(5):554-555


Potential exposure of children to environmental microorganisms in indoor healthcare and educational settings

D’Arcy N, Cloutman-Green E, Lai K, Margaritis D, Klein N, Spratt DA. Indoor and Built Environment, May 2014; 23(3):467-473


Healthcare environments and spatial variability of healthcare associated infection risk: cross-sectional surveys

Gaudart J, Cloutman-Green E, Guillas S, D’Arcy N, Hartley JC, Gant V, Klein N. PLoS One. 2013 Sep 19;8(9):e76249.


Hospital door handle design and their contamination with bacteria: a real life observational study. Are we pulling against closed doors?

Wojgani H, Kehsa C, Cloutman-Green E, Gray C, Gant V, Klein N. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e40171.


Use of UV-C radiation to disinfect non-critical patient care items: a laboratory assessment of the Nanoclave Cabinet

Moore G, Ali S, Cloutman-Green EA, Bradley CR, Wilkinson MA, Hartley JC, Fraise AP, Wilson AP. BMC Infect Dis. 2012 Aug 3;12:174

Publications on Transmission and Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infection

Pandemic preparedness: is the UK ready for a pandemic that affects children?

O’Callaghan C, Cloutman-Green E, Brierley J. BMJ. 2023 Nov 28;383:2804


Antimicrobial resistance as a super wicked problem: how do we engage the public to be part of the solution

Rickard H, Watkin S, Baldwin N, De Souza A, Ciric L, Cloutman-Green E. Infection Prevention in Practice 2023 Nov 5(4)


A proposed classification system for opportunistic pathogens for improved healthcare infection prevention and control risk assessments

Watkin S, Ciric L, Kiernan M, Cloutman-Green E.  J Hosp Infect. 2023 Mar 20:S0195-670.


Contribution of nurses to protective environment in haematopoietic cell transplant setting: an international survey by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Agreiter I, Kozijn A E 2, Bakunina K, Averbuch D, Stringer J, Hutt D, Mikulska M, Bögel T N, Canesi M, Cloutman-Green E, Bosman P V, Gil L, Liptrott S J, Murray J, Styczynski J; Nurses Group and Infectious Diseases Working Party of EBMT. Bone Marrow Transplant 2021 Jun;56(6):1433-1440


Who decides what’s relevant? Factors driving publication on clinically significant organisms

Rawlinson S, Ciric L, Cloutman-Green E. Who decides what’s relevant? Factors driving publication on clinically significant organisms. IPIP June 2020:2(2)


Controlling Legionella pneumophilia in water systems at reduced hot water temperatures with copper and silver ionization

Cloutman-Green E, Barbosa VL, Jimenez D, Wong D, Dunn H, Needham B, Ciric L, Hartley JC. AJIC 2019 July. 47(7):761-766


Biochemical and microbial contamination of surgical devices: A quantitative analysis

Cloutman-Green E, Canales M, Qizhi Zhou, Ciric L, Hartley JC, McDonnell G. Am J Infect Control. 2015 Jun;43(6):659-61.


Adenovirus and Epstein Barr virus infections in paediatric recipients post bone marrow transplant: possible transfusion transmitted infections?

Patel P, Tuke P, Tettmar K, Cloutman-Green E, Hartley J, Klein N, Veys P, Tedder R. Vox Sanguinis. 2015 Jul;109(1):95-7.


Critical evaluation of ninhydrin for monitoring surgical instrument decontamination

Nayuni NK, Cloutman-Green E, Hollis M, Hartley J, Martin S, Perrett D. J Hosp Infect. 2013 Jun;84(2):97-102


Can clean-room particle counters be used as an infection control tool in hospital operating theatres?

Pankhurst, L. J., Lai, K. M., Cloutman-Green, E. A. and Hartley, J. C. Indoor and Built Environment, June 2012; vol. 21, 3: pp. 381-391


Septicaemia Due To Enteric Organisms Is A Later Event In Surgical Infants Requiring Parenteral Nutrition

Mark Bishay, Giuseppe Retrosi, Venetia Horn, Elaine Cloutman-Green, Kathryn Harris, Paolo De Coppi, Nigel Klein, Simon Eaton, Agostino Pierro. European Journal of Paediatric Surgery. 2012 Feb;22(1):50-3


Chlorhexidine antisepsis significantly reduces the incidence of sepsis and septicemia during parenteral nutrition in surgical infants

Mark Bishay, Giuseppe Retrosi, Venetia Horn, Elaine Cloutman-Green, Kathryn Harris, Paolo De Coppi, Nigel Klein, Simon Eaton, Agostino Pierro. Journal of Pediatric Surgery (2011) 46, 1064–1069

Publications on the Use of Nanoparticles for Infection Prevention

Synergistic Antibacterial Effects of Metallic Nanoparticle Combinations

Bankier, C, Matharu, R. K, Cheong, Y.K, Ren, G. G, Cloutman-Green, E, Ciric, L. Nature Scientific Reports 2019. 9:16074


A comparison of methods to assess the antimicrobial activity of nanoparticle combinations on bacterial cells

Bankier C, Cheong Y, Mahalingam S, Edirisinghe M, Ren G, Cloutman-Green E, Ciric L. PLoS One. 2018 Feb 1;13(2):e0192093.


Characterisation of the Chemical Composition and Structural Features of Novel Antimicrobial Nanoparticles

Cheong YK, Calvo-Castro J, Ciric L, Edirisinghe M, Cloutman-Green E, Illangakoon UE, Kang Q, Mahalingam S, Matharu RK, Wilson RM, Ren G. Nanomaterials (Basel). 2017 Jun 23;7(7).


Gyrospun antimicrobial nanoparticle loaded fibrous polymeric filters

Eranka Illangakoon, Suntharavathanan Mahalingam, Katherine Wang, Y. K.Cheong, Melisa Canales, Guogang Ren, Elaine Cloutman-Green, Mohan Edirisinghe, Lena Ciric. Materials Science and Engineering: C. Volume 74, 1 May 2017, Pages 315–324.

Publications on the Characterisation and Detection of Pathogens

Statistical analysis plan for the LAKANA trial: a cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, parallel group, three-arm clinical trial testing the effects of mass drug administration of azithromycin on mortality and other outcomes among 1–11-month-old infants in Mali

Luoma, J, Adubra, L, Alber, D, Cloutman-Green E et al. Trials 24, 733 (2023)


Testing the effects of mass drug administration of azithromycin on mortality and other outcomes among 1–11-month-old infants in Mali (LAKANA): study protocol for a cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, parallel-group, three-arm clinical trial

Adubra, L., Alber, D., Ashorn, P. Cloutman-Green E et al. Trials 24, 5 (2023)


Evolutionary and functional history of the Escherichia coli K1 capsule

Arredondo-Alonso, S., Blundell-Hunter, G., Fu, Z. Cloutman-Green E et al. Nat Commun 14, 3294 (2023)


Staphylococcus capitis: Review of Its Role in Infections and Outbreaks

Heath V, Cloutman-Green E, Watkin S, Karlikowska M, Ready D, Hatcher J, Pearce-Smith N, Brown C, Demirjian A.  Antibiotics (Basel). 2023 Mar 29;12(4):669. 


FcMBL magnetic bead-based MALDI-TOF MS rapidly identifies paediatric blood stream infections from positive blood cultures

Kite KA, Loomba S, Elliott TJ, Yongblah F, Lightbown SL, Doyle TJ, Gates L, Alber D, Downey GA, McCurdy MT, Hill JA, Super M, Ingber DE, Klein N, Cloutman-Green E. PLoS One 2022 Nov 22;17(11)


SARS-CoV-2 infection and antibody seroprevalence in routine surveillance patients, healthcare workers and general population in Kita region, Mali: an observational study 2020-2021

Alber D, Haidara FC, Luoma J, Adubra L, Ashorn P, Ashorn U, Badji H, Cloutman-Green E, Diallo F, Ihamuotila R, Klein N, Martell O, Onwuchekwa UU, Samaké O, Sow SO, Traore A, Wilson K, Ducker C, Fan YM. BMJ Open 2022 Jun 16;12(6)


Linking gastrointestinal microbiota and metabolome dynamics to clinical outcomes in paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Vaitkute G, Panic G, Alber DG, Faizura-Yeop I, Cloutman-Green E, Swann J, Veys P, Standing JF, Klein N, Bajaj-Elliott M. Microbiome 2022 Jun 10;10(1):89


A fast extraction-free isothermal LAMP assay for detection of SARS-CoV-2 with potential use in resource-limited settings

Gärtner K, Meleke H, Kamdolozi M, Chaima D, Samikwa L, Paynter M, Nyang’Wa MN, Cloutman-Green E, Nastouli E, Klein N, Nyirenda T. A. Virol J 2022 May 2;19(1):77


The Secretome Profiling of a Pediatric Airway Epithelium Infected with hRSV Identified Aberrant Apical/Basolateral Trafficking and Novel Immune Modulating (CXCL6, CXCL16, CSF3) and Antiviral (CEACAM1) Proteins

Olivier Touzelet, Lindsay Broadbent, Stuart D. Armstrong, Waleed Aljabr, Elaine Cloutman-Green, Ultan F. Power, Julian A. Hiscox. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2020, 19 (5) 793-807


High Resolution Analysis of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection In Vivo

Aljabr W, Armstrong S, Rickett NY, Pollakis G, Touzelet O, Cloutman-Green E, et al. Viruses. 2019;11:926


Transcriptional heterogeneity of Cryptococcus gattii VGII compared with non-VGII lineages underpins key pathogenicity pathways

Farrer R, Ford CB, Rhodes J, Delorey T, May R, Fisher MC, Cloutman-Green E, Balloux F, Cuomo CA. mSphere Oct 2018, 3 (5)


Use of Whole-genome Sequencing of Adenovirus in Immunocompromised Paediatric Patients to Identify Nosocomial Transmission and Mixed-genotype Infection

Houldcroft CJ, Roy S, Morfopoulou S, Margetts BK, Depledge DP, Cudini J, Shah D, Brown JR, Yara Romero E, Williams R, Cloutman-Green E, Rao K, Standing JF, Hartley J, Breuer J. J Infect Dis. 2018:October 8(15):1261–1271.


The DiversiLab Study Group. International Multicenter Evaluation of the DiversiLab Bacterial Typing System for Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp.

Voets GM, Leverstein-van Hall MA, Kolbe-Busch S, van der Zande A, Church D, Kaase M, Grisold A, Upton M, Cloutman-Green E, Cantón R, Friedrich AW, Fluit AC; J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Dec;51(12):3944-9


A duplex real-time PCR assay for the detection, and determination of penicillin susceptibility, of Streptococcus pneumoniae in clinical samples

Harris KA, Turner P, Green EA, Hartley JC. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Aug;46(8):2751-8

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