Scientific Papers

Farlow, D., Simms, L., Pintara, A., Nimmo, G.R., Harper, J., Smith, K., Hiskens, M.I., Boxall, S., Giardino, R., Lord, A., Huygens, F. (2024, June 14-17). Quantitative PCR: A novel clinical tool for patients with bloodstream infections. [Poster Presentation]. American Society for Microbiology Microbe 2024, Atlanta, USA

Simms, L., Farlow, D., Hiskens, M.I., Mengistu, T.S., Sieben, N., McPherrin, B., De Silva, J., Nightingale, R., Smith, K., Davies, C., Jayasundara, N., Sandhu, S., Pintara, A., Giardino, R., Huygens, F. (2024, June 14-17). Whole blood qPRC detection and quantitation of Streptococcus pneumoniae. [Poster Presentation]. American Society for Microbiology Microbe 2024, Atlanta, USA

Simms, L., Farlow, D., Hiskens, M.I., Mengistu, T.S., Sieben, N., McPherrin, B., De Silva, J., Nightingale, R., Smith, K., Davies, C., Jayasundara, N., Sandhu, S., Pintara, A., Giardino, R., Huygens, F. (2024, June 14-17). A commercial innovative diagnostic assay for sepsis diagnosis directly from blood [Poster Presentation]. American Society for Microbiology Microbe 2024, Atlanta, USA

Simms, L.A., Davies, C., Jayasundara, N., Sandhu, S., Pintara, A., Pretorius, A., Nimmo, G.R., Harper, J., Hiskens, M., Smith, K., Boxall, S., Lord, A., Giardino, R., Farlow, D., Ward, D.M., Huygens, F., 2023. Performance evaluation of InfectID-BSI: A rapid quantitative PCR assay for detecting sepsis-associated organisms directly from whole blood. Journal of Microbiological Methods 211, 106783. Links:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2023.106783

Simms, L., Davies, C., Jayasundara, N., Sandhu, S., Pintara, A., Giardino, R., Lord, A., Huygens, F. (2022, April 23-26). A commercial innovative diagnostic assay for sepsis diagnosis directly from blood [Poster Presentation]. 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 2022, Lisbon, Portugal

Farlow, D., Simms, L., Davies, C., Jayasundara, N., Sandhu, S., Pintara, A., Giardino, R., Lord, A., Huygens, F. (2022, April 23-26). A commercial assay versus traditional blood culture: correlation with clinical metadata and sepsis criteria [Poster Presentation]. 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 2022, Lisbon, Portugal

Rathnayake, I., Hargreaves, M., & Huygens, F. (2011a). Genotyping of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium
isolates by use of a set of eight single nucleotide polymorphisms. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 49, 367-72.Links:

https://jcm.asm.org/content/49/1/367

Rathnayake, I., Hargreaves, M., & Huygens, F. (2011b). SNP diversity of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium in
a South East Queensland waterway, Australia, and associated antibiotic resistance gene profiles. BMC Microbiology, 11,
201.Links:

https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2180-11-201

Sheludchenko, M., Huygens, F., & Hargreaves, M. (2011). Human-specific E. coli single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
genotypes detected in a South East Queensland waterway, Australia. Environmental Science and Technology, 45,
10331-6.Links:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es201599u10.1021/es201599u

Sheludchenko, M., Huygens, F., & Hargreaves, M. (2010). Highly discriminatory single-nucleotide polymorphism
interrogation of Escherichia coli by use of allele-specific real-time PCR and eBURST analysis. Applied and Environmental
Microbiology, 76, 4337-45.Links:

https://aem.asm.org/content/76/13/433710.1128/AEM.00128-10

Honsa, E., Fricke, R., Stephens, A., Ko, D., Kong, F., Gilbert, G., Huygens, F., Giffard, P. (2008). Assignment of Streptococcus
agalactiae isolates to aclonal complexes using a small set of single nucleotide polymorphisms. BMC Microbiology, 19(8),
140.Links:

https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2180-8-14010.1186/1471-2180-8-140

Huygens, F., Inman-Bamber, J. N., Munckhof, W., Schooneveldt, J., Harrison, B., McMahon, J., & Giffard, P. (2006).
Staphylococcus aureus genotyping using real-time PCR formats. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 44, 3712-9.Links:

https://jcm.asm.org/content/44/10/371210.1128/JCM.00843-06

Price, E., Thiruvenkataswamy, V., Mickan, L., Unicomb, L., Rios, R., Huygens, F., & Giffard, P. (2006). Genotyping of
Campylobacter jejuni using seven single-nucleotide polymorphisms in combination with flaA short variable region
sequencing. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55, 1061-70.Links:

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.46460-010.1099/jmm.0.46460-0

Stephens, A., Huygens, F., Inman-Bamber, J., Price, E. N., Schooneveldt, J., Munckhof, W., & Giffard, P. (2006). Methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus aureus genotyping using a small set of polymorphisms. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55,
43-51.Links:

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.46157-0

Robertson, G., Thiruvenkataswamy, V., Shilling, H., Price, E., Huygens, F. H., & Giffard, P. (2004). Identification and
interrogation of highly informative single nucleotide polymorphism sets defined by bacterial multilocus sequence
typing databases. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 53, 35-45.Links:

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.05365-0