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Research Disciplines: Clinical sciences (3202)

Epidemiology (4202)

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Journal Articles

Gassiep I, Bachmeier C, Hendry S, Emeto T, Armstrong M, Sangla K and Heather C (2020) Antimicrobial stewardship in diabetic ketoacidosis: a single centre experience. Internal Medicine Journal, 50. pp. 173-177
Gassiep I, Chaw A, Armstrong M, Emeto T, Heather C and Norton R (2018) Correlation between serum cryptococcal antigen titre and meningitis in immunocompetent patients. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 67 (10). pp. 1515-1518

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Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre Limited - Contract Research

Can portable genome sequencing provide a rapid, comprehensive, point-of-care diagnostic test for Far North Queensland hospitals and healthcare centres?

Indicative Funding: $49,987 over 2 years
Summary: Respiratory disease, fevers, and sepsis are common in FNQ and treatment often requires admission to hospital. These infections have many different causes, and diagnosing them requires multiple tests that take weeks to perform. Consequently, patients are treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics before a pathogen is identified, leading to poorer outcomes for the patient and contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections. We will trial new genome sequencing technology as a point-of-care diagnostic test for fever, sepsis, and pneumonia at Cairns Hospital, and test the hypothesis that this approach will increase the proportion of infections that are diagnosed and reduce the time-to-diagnosis.
Investigators: John McBride, Cadhla Firth, Simon Smith, Joshua Hanson, Matt Field, Emma McBryde, John Miles, Damon Eisen and Christopher Heather (College of Medicine & Dentistry, Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine and Queensland Health)
Keywords: Genomics; Healthcare; pathogens