Congratulations to members of the Department who have recently had their research findings published. Here’s our round-up of the latest publication successes.
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| Title | Canonical journal title | Publication type | Authors OR Authors/Contributors | Publication date |
| A diagnostic host-specific transcriptome response for Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia to guide pediatric patient treatment | Nature Communications | Journal article | Viz-Lasheras S, Gómez-Carballa A, Bello X, Rivero-Calle I, Dacosta AI, Kaforou M, Habgood-Coote D, Cunnington AJ, Emonts M, Herberg JA, Wright VJ, Carrol ED, Paulus SC, Zenz W, Kohlfürst DS, Schweintzger N, Van der Flier M, de Groot R, Schlapbach LJ, Agyeman P, Pollard AJ, Fink C, Kuijpers TT, Anderson S, Von Both U, Pokorn M, Zavadska D, Tsolia M, Moll HA, Vermont C, Levin M, Martinón-Torres F, Salas A | 15/01/2025 |
| A meta-analysis of levofloxacin for contacts of multidrug-resistant TB | NEJM Evidence | Journal article | Duong T, Brigden J, Schaaf HS, Garden F, Marais B, Thu Anh N, White I, Gibb D, Viet Nhung N, Martinson N, Fairlie L, Martinez L, Layton C, Benedetti A, Marks G, Turner R, Seddon J, Hesseling AC, Fox GJ | 01/01/2025 |
| Acute rheumatic fever in the UK and Ireland: a BPSU surveillance study | Archives of Disease in Childhood | Journal article | Gourlay-Gudex M, Salama M, Crane R, Whittaker E, Parks T | 15/01/2025 |
| Advancing the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis: a consensus view | Lancet Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Wasserman S, Donovan J, Kestelyn E, Watson JA, Aarnoutse RE, Barnacle JR, Boulware DR, Chow FC, Cresswell FV, Davis AG, Dooley KE, Figaji AA, Gibb DM, Huynh J, Imran D, Marais S, Meya DB, Misra UK, Modi M, Raberahona M, Ganiem AR, Rohlwink UK, Ruslami R, Seddon JA, Skolimowska KH, Solomons RS, Stek CJ, Thuong NTT, van Crevel R, Whitaker C, Thwaites GE, Wilkinson RJ | 01/01/2025 |
| An ultra-early, transient interferon-associated innate immune response associates with protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection despite exposure | EBioMedicine | Journal article | Fenn J, Madon K, Conibear E, Derelle R, Nevin S, Kundu R, Hakki S, Tregoning JS, Koycheva A, Derqui N, Tolosa-Wright M, Jonnerby J, Wang L, Baldwin S, Pillay TD, Thwaites RS, Luca C, Varro R, Badhan A, Parker E, Rosadas C, McClure M, Tedder R, Taylor G, Lalvani A, Fenn J, Madon K, Conibear E, Derelle R, Nevin S, Kundu R, Hakki S, Koycheva A, Derqui N, Tolosa-Wright M, Jonnerby J, Wang L, Baldwin S, Pillay T, Thwaites R, Luca C, Varro R, Badhan A, Parker E, Rosadas C, McClure M, Tedder R, Taylor G, Lalvani A, Narean J, Mosscrop L, Watber P, Zhou J, Barnett J, Houston H, Singanayagam A, Freemont P, Ferguson N, Zambon M, Barclay W, Dunning J, Cutajar J, Quinn V, Hammett S, McDermott E, Timcang K, Samuel J, Bremang S, Evetts S, Davies M, Tejpal C, Ketkar A, Miserocchi G, Catchpole H, Dustan S, Day Weber I, Marchesin F, Kondratiuk A | 01/01/2025 |
| Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): ISID’s global efforts to bring light to the silent pandemic | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Sirdar MM, Hanson J, Maxwell J, Matar GM, Myaing TT, Holmes A | 01/01/2025 |
| Authors’ reply: “Effect of colistin combined with sulbactam: 9 g versus 12 g per day on mortality in the treatment of carbapenems resistant Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial” | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Ungthammakhun C, Vasikasin V, Simsiriporn W, Juntanawiwat P, Changpradub D | 01/01/2025 |
| Chronic CRYPTOCHROME deficiency enhances cell-intrinsic antiviral defences | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | Journal article | Major-Styles CT, Munns J, Zeng A, Vanden Oever M, O’Neill JS, Edgar RS | 23/01/2025 |
| Clinical management of Human Herpesvirus-8 related illnesses in solid organ transplant recipients | Journal of Infection | Journal article | Dalla Pria A, Ushiro-Lumb I, Bower M | 02/01/2025 |
| Concurrent optimization of continuous carbon fiber-reinforced composites with multi-scale components considering the manufacturing constraint | Composites Science and Technology | Journal article | Sun B, Xing Y, Lv P, Zhou J, Liu C, Duan H, Liang X | 01/01/2025 |
| Conserved helical motifs in the IKZF1 disordered region mediate NuRD interaction and transcriptional repression | Blood | Journal article | Zhang T, Wang Y-F, Montoya A, Patrascan I, Nebioglu N, Pallikonda HA, Georgieva R, King JWD, Kramer HB, Shliaha PV, Rueda DS, Merkenschlager M | 23/01/2025 |
| COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and uptake in a national cohort of English children and young people with life-limiting neurodisability | Archives of Disease in Childhood | Journal article | Cruz J, Harwood R, Kenny S, Clark M, Davis PJ, Draper ES, Hargreaves D, Ladhani SN, Luyt K, Turner SW, Whittaker E, Hardelid P, Fraser LK, Viner RM, Ward JL | 24/01/2025 |
| CXCL-10 in Cerebrospinal Fluid Detects Neuroinflammation in HTLV-1-Associated Myelopathy with High Accuracy | Viruses | Journal article | Da Silva SJ, Cabral-Castro MJ, Faria LC, Rosadas C, de Araújo MFL, Dutra ACS, Yamano Y, Taylor G, Puccioni-Sohler M | 12/01/2025 |
| Damage progression and failure in L-shaped laminated composite bolted joints subjected to quasi-static tensile loading | Composite Structures | Journal article | Zhang W, Wang J, Zhou J, Guo Y, Zhang D, Duan Y, Guan Z, Cantwell WJ | 01/01/2025 |
| Decisions under duress and the limits of data | Archives of Disease in Childhood | Journal article | Samuel N, Bressan S, Nijman RG | 11/01/2025 |
| Development of compounds for targeted degradation of mammalian cryptochrome proteins. | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | Journal article | Munns J, Beale AD, Michaelides IN, Peak-Chew SY, Mihut A, Major-Styles CT, Zeng A, Storer RI, Edgar RS, Moreau K, O’Neill JS | 23/01/2025 |
| Distinct virologic trajectories in chronic hepatitis B identify heterogeneity in response to nucleos(t)ide analogue therapy | JHEP Reports | Journal article | Wang T, Campbell C, Stockdale AJ, Todd S, McIntyre K, Frankland A, Jaworski J, Glampson B, Papadimitriou D, Mercuri L, Mayer E, Jones CR, Salih H, Roadknight G, Little S, Noble T, Várnai KA, Davis C, Heinson AI, George M, Borca F, English L, Romão L, Ramlakhan D, Barnes E, Matthews PC, Gelson W, Cooke GS, Khakoo SI, Nastouli E, Davies J, Woods K, Stockdale AJ, Ryder S, Elsharkawy A, Easom N, Bernal W, Ahmad S, Macdonald D, Wang T, Campbell C, Stanworth S, Maynard S, Roadknight G, Little S, Várnai KA, Glampson B, Papadimitriou D, Mercuri L, Jones CR, Jaworski J, Davis C, Borca F, Heinson A, George M, MacNaughton H, Kim Y, Meneses JO, English L, Roberts T, Romão L, Ramlakhan D, Todd S, Rogers H, McIntyre K, Frankland A, Salih H, Noble T, Roberts L, Higgins F, Vilar J, Norris R, Tilston G, Serafimova I, Montague S, Verheyden J, Juurlink I, Jack K, Waldren-Glenn A, Poole L, Day V, Reglar B, Woods K, Davies J, Nastouli E, Khakoo SI, Gelson W, Cooke GS, Barnes E, Matthews PC | 01/01/2025 |
| Evaluation of Phoenix Sepsis Score Criteria: Exploratory Analysis of Characteristics and Outcomes in an Emergency Transport PICU Cohort From the United Kingdom, 2014–2016 | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine | Journal article | Carter MJ, Hageman J, Feinstein Y, Herberg J, Kaforou M, Peters MJ, Nadel S, Edmonds N, Pathan N, Levin M, Ramnarayan P | 03/01/2025 |
| Expanding our support for the wider cell biology community | Journal of Cell Science | Journal article | Way M | 15/01/2025 |
| Experimental medicine study with stabilised native-like HIV-1 Env immunogens drives long-term antibody responses, but lacks neutralising breadth | EBioMedicine | Journal article | Shattock R | 01/02/2025 |
| From fat to fire: the lipid-inflammasome connection | Immunological Reviews | Journal article | Anand P | 01/01/2025 |
| GGCX promotes Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus adaption to interspecies receptor binding | Nature Communications | Journal article | Zou J, Jiang M, Xiao R, Sun H, Liu H, Peacock T, Tu S, Chen T, Guo J, Zhao Y, Barclay W, Xie S, Zhou H | 15/01/2025 |
| Global burden of tuberculous meningitis in children aged 0-14 years: a mathematical modelling study | The Lancet Global Health | Journal article | du Preez K, Jenkins H, Martinez L, Chiang S, Dlamini S, Dolynska M, Aleksandrin A, Kobe J, Graham S, Hesseling A, Starke J, Seddon J, Dodd P | 01/01/2025 |
| Gut feelings on short-chain fatty acids to regulate respiratory health | Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism | Journal article | Rowland SN, Green CG, Halliwill JR, Singanayagam A, Heaney LM | 01/01/2025 |
| High-velocity impact characteristics of 3D auxetic composite cylindrical shell panels: Theory and experiment | Thin Walled Structures | Journal article | Li H, Deng Y, Zhang Z, Hou J, Zhou J, Wang H, Zhang H, Wang X, Guan Z | 01/01/2025 |
| IMITATE: Clinical Prior Guided Hierarchical Vision-Language Pre-Training | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | Journal article | Liu C, Cheng S, Shi M, Shah A, Bai W, Arcucci R | 01/01/2025 |
| Immunological aspects of HTLV-1 persistence; for the prevention and treatment of Adult T-cell leukaemia-lymphoma (ATL) | Leukemia Research | Journal article | Weterings DA, Rowan AG, Cook LB | 01/01/2025 |
| Impact of SARS-CoV-2 spike antibody positivity on infection and hospitalisation rates in immunosuppressed populations during the omicron period: the MELODY study | The Lancet | Journal article | Mumford L, Hogg R, Taylor A, Lanyon P, Bythell M, McPhail S, Chilcot J, Powter G, Cooke GS, Ward H, Thomas H, McAdoo SP, Lightstone L, Lim SH, Pettigrew GJ, Pearce FA, Willicombe M | 01/01/2025 |
| Incidence of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy in the UK from 1991 to 2024: a longitudinal observational cohort study | Frontiers in Medicine | Journal article | Rosadas de Oliveira C, Baylon J, Greiller C, Adonis A, Dhasmana D, Davies N, Rosadas de Oliveira C, Taylor G | 07/01/2025 |
| Insights of SEDRIC, the Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Infections Consortium | Wellcome Open Research | Journal article | Feasey N, Ahmad R, Ashley E, Atun R, Baker KS, Chiari F, van Doorn HR, Holmes A, Jinks T, Jermy A, Joshi J, Kanj SS, King M, Limmathurotsakul D, Midega J, Mpundu M, Nunn J, Okeke IN, Reid S, Sievert D, Turner P, Walia K, Peacock SJ | 13/01/2025 |
| Interventional anti-reflux management for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in lung transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Surgical Endoscopy: surgical and interventional techniques | Journal article | Krahelski O, Ali I, Namgoong C, Dave K, Reed A, Ashrafian H, Reddy M, Khan O, Das B, Fehervari M | 01/01/2025 |
| Low concordance between QIAreach QuantiFERON-TB, a novel interferon-gamma release assay, and QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus, in a population-based survey in Blantyre, Malawi | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | Journal article | Rickman HM, Phiri MD, Mbale H, Horton KC, Henrion MYR, Nightingale ES, Seddon JA, Corbett EL, Macpherson P | 31/01/2025 |
| Management of infants presenting with fever – a review of pan-London hospital guidelines and national guidelines | BMJ Paediatrics Open | Journal article | Habermann S, Haroun B, Prol Avarez A, Garg S, Nijman R | 16/01/2025 |
| Metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for the production and secretion of the saffron ingredient crocetin | Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts | Journal article | Ledesma-Amaro R, Zhou T, Park Y-K, Fu J, Klemm C, Hapeta P, Ledesma Amaro R | 07/01/2025 |
| Methods to Study Poxvirus Structures by Cryo-EM Imaging Modalities | Methods in Molecular Biology | Journal article | Hyun J, Hsieh LT-H, Ayala R, Chang W, Wolf M | 17/07/1905 |
| Microbial messengers: nucleic acid delivery by bacteria | Trends in Biotechnology | Journal article | Heggie A, Thurston TLM, Ellis T | 01/01/2025 |
| Microbial remodeling of gut tryptophan metabolism and indole-3-lactate production regulate epithelial barrier repair and viral suppression in human and simian immunodeficiency virus infections | Mucosal Immunology | Journal article | Rocha CS, Alexander KL, Herrera C, Weber MG, Grishina I, Hirao LA, Kramer DJ, Arredondo J, Mende A, Crakes KR, Fenton AN, Marco ML, Mills DA, Kappes JC, Smythies LE, Ziprin P, Sankaran-Walters S, Smith PD, Dandekar S | 01/01/2025 |
| Monkeypox virus isolation from longitudinal samples in 11 hospitalised patients | Lancet Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Callaby H, Olver J, Emery K, Richards KS, Killip M, Groves N, Beadsworth MBJ, Price DA, Cooke GS, Collini P, Cole J, Dunning J, Semple MG, Baillie JK, Carson G, Openshaw P, Merson L, Russell CD, Zambon M, Chand M, Tedder R, Khoo S, Horby P, Turtle LCW, Solomon T, Ijaz S, Fletcher T, Palmarini M, Ho A, Price N, Alex B, Andrikopoulos P, Black B, Barclay WS, Bogaert D, Chechi K, Da Silva Filipe A, De Silva T, Docherty AB, Dos Santos Correia G, Dumas M-E, Green CA, Greenhalf W, Griffin JL, Gupta R, Harrison EM, Holden K, Klenerman P, Law A, Lewis MR, Liggi S, Lim WS, Maslen L, Mentzer AJ, Meynert A, Moore S, Noursadeghi M, Olanipekun M, Osagie A, Palmieri C, Paxton WA, Pollakis G, Rambaut A, Robertson D, Sancho-Shimizu V, Sands CJ, Scott JT, Sigfrid L, Sriskandan S, Stuart D, Summers C, Swann OV, Takats Z, Takis P, Thompson AAR, Thomson EC, Thwaites RS, Hardwick H, Oosthuyzen W, Ostermann M, Rampling T, Houlihan CF | 01/01/2025 |
| Nanofluids, turbulators, and novel working fluids for heat transfer processes and energy applications: Current status and prospective | Applied Thermal Engineering | Journal article | Said Z, Bellos E, Ali HM, Rahman S, Tzivanidis C | 01/01/2025 |
| Point‐of‐care nucleic acid testing – a step forward in controlling the <scp>HIV</scp> epidemic: A review | HIV Medicine | Journal article | Pinar SS, Manak M, Saravanan S, Imami N, Kibirige C | 25/01/2025 |
| Potential for broadly neutralising antibodies as PrEP | The Lancet HIV | Journal article | Fidler S, Caskey M | 01/01/2025 |
| Programmatic diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of Xpert MTB/XDR in patients with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Georgia | Open Forum Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Pfurtscheller T, Tsutsunava A, Maghradze N, Gujabidze M, Bablishvili N, Yerlikaya S, Denkinger CM, Tukvadze N, Gupta-Wright A | 31/01/2025 |
| Proviral HIV DNA sequencing to inform suitability for long-acting injectable cabotegravir/rilpivirine | AIDS | Journal article | Alagaratnam J, Kelly N, Dustan S, Naous N, Nwanbila M, Byrne R, Girometti N, Asboe D, Taylor GP, Boffito M | 01/01/2025 |
| Regulatory workshop on standardisation of clinical procedures, endpoints and data robustness of human challenge studies – A stakeholder meeting report | Biologicals | Journal article | Meln I, Cnossen V, Corti N, Andeweg A, Baay M, Chiu C, Coia J, Cornely O, Cox RJ, Dasyam D, De Keersmaecker SCJ, Deming M, Waldock J, Engelhardt OG, Guo M, Haj-Ali Saflo O, Hensen A, Jeeninga R, Kolstoe S, Krut O, Kuijper EJ, Leal L, Mazur N, Mohn KGI, Morel S, Osterhaus A, Moreira AP, Smits WK, Sridhar S, Toomey D, van Gerven J, Vehreschild MJGT, Yarzabal JP, Zimmer-Harwood P, Neels P, Olesen OF, Roestenberg M, Kamerling IMC | 01/05/2025 |
| Response to Karp-Tatham et al. | HGG Advances | Journal article | Marchal A, Sancho-Shimizu V, Abel L, Casanova J-L, Cobat A, Bolze A | 01/04/2025 |
| Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Signalling Inhibition Suppresses Th1-Like Treg Generation by Reversing Mitochondrial Uncoupling | Immunology | Journal article | Coulombeau R, Selck C, Giang N, Al-Mohammad A, Ng N, Maher AK, Argueello R, Scalfari A, Varley J, Nicholas R, Dominguez-Villar M | 01/01/2025 |
| Strategies to Increase Response Rate and Reduce Nonresponse Bias in Population Health Research: Analysis of a Series of Randomized Controlled Experiments during a Large COVID-19 Study | JMIR Public Health and Surveillance | Journal article | Atchison CJ, Gilby N, Pantelidou G, Clemens S, Pickering K, Chadeau-Hyam M, Ashby D, Barclay WS, Cooke GS, Darzi A, Riley S, Donnelly CA, Ward H, Elliott P | 09/01/2025 |
| The application of antimicrobial stewardship knowledge to nursing practice: A national survey of United Kingdom pre-registration nursing students | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal article | Courtenay M, Hawker C, Gallagher R, Castro-Sanchez E, Gould DJ, Al Salti F, Bate J, Cooper D, Cooper R, Craig R, Dickenson R, Fallon D, Mcleod S, Morrow K, Ness V, Nichols A, O’reilly S, Partington S, Sevenoaks JC, Sunter M, Turner J, Underhill LW, Weaver SL | 01/01/2025 |
| The battle against antimicrobial resistance is more important now than ever: time to educate, advocate and act | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | Journal article | Oliveira LMA, Costa NS, Mestrovic T, Jauneikaite E, Pinto TCA | 01/01/2025 |
| The effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on people living with <scp>HIV</scp> | HIV Medicine | Journal article | Walker SH, Grierson J, Sullivan A, Alagaratnam J | 06/01/2025 |
| The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals | Nature | Journal article | Peacock TP, Moncla L, Dudas G, Vaninsberghe D, Sukhova K, Lloyd-Smith JO, Worobey M, Lowen AC, Nelson MI | 09/01/2025 |
| The global prevalence of reported penicillin allergy: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Journal of Infection | Journal article | Luintel A, Healy J, Blank M, Luintel A, Dryden S, Das A, Darzi A, Cooke G | 01/02/2025 |
| Thermodynamic analysis of a solar-fed heat upgrade system using the reverse air brayton cycle | Renewable Energy | Journal article | Tzouganakis P, Bellos E, Rakopoulos D, Skembris A, Rogkas N | 01/01/2025 |
| Time to HIV viral rebound and frequency of post-treatment control after analytical interruption of antiretroviral therapy: an individual data-based meta-analysis of 24 prospective studies | Nature Communications | Journal article | Gunst JD, Gohil J, Li JZ, Bosch RJ, White, Catherine Seamon A, Chun T-W, Mothe B, Gittens K, Praiss L, De Scheerder M-A, Vandekerckhove L, Escandón K, Thorkelson A, Schacker T, SenGupta D, Brander C, Papasavvas E, Montaner LJ, Martinez-Picado J, Calin R, Castagna A, Muccini C, de Jong W, Leal L, Garcia F, Gruters RA, Tipoe T, Frater J, Søgaard OS, Fidler S | 21/01/2025 |
| Tracking Nongenetic Evolution from Primary to Metastatic ccRCC: TRACERx Renal. | Cancer Discovery | Journal article | Fernández-Sanromán Á, Fendler A, Tan BJY, Cattin A-L, Spencer C, Thompson R, Au L, Lobon I, Pallikonda HA, Martin A, Byrne F, Franz A, Mikolajczak A, Rahman H, Tippu Z, Shepherd STC, Feng H, Deng D, Rowan A, Pickering L, Furness AJS, Young K, Nicol D, Rudman SM, O’Brien T, Edmonds K, Chandra A, Hazell S, Litchfield K, Kassiotis G, Larkin J, Turajlic S | 09/01/2025 |
| Transcriptome-scale analysis uncovers conserved residues in the hydrophobic core of the bacterial RNA chaperone Hfq required for small regulatory RNA stability | Nucleic Acids Research | Journal article | McQuail J, Krepl M, Katsuya-Gaviria K, Tabib-Salazar A, Burchell L, Bischler T, Gräfenhan T, Brear P, Šponer J, Luisi BF, Wigneshweraraj S | 24/01/2025 |
| Tuberculosis in adult migrants in Europe: a TBnet consensus statement | European Respiratory Journal | Journal article | Kunst H, Lange B, Hovardovska O, Bockey A, Zenner D, Andersen AB, Hargreaves S, Pareek M, Friedland JS, Wejse C, Bothamley G, Guglielmetti L, Chesov D, Tiberi S, Matteelli A, Mandalakas AM, Heyckendorf J, Eimer J, Malhotra A, Zamora J, Vasiliu A, Lange C | 30/01/2025 |
| Up-regulated matrix metalloproteinase activity in soil-transmitted helminth–tuberculosis co-infection is associated with increased lung pathology | European Respiratory Journal | Journal article | Loader M-CI, Vasquez Alves S, Gilman RH, Coronel J, Taquiri C, Vasquez Alves N, Díaz-Soria F, Durand S, Kelleher ST, Jacob T, Elson WH, Kirwan DE, Friedland JS | 01/01/2025 |