Publications

DateCategoriesTitlePublisherAuthors
June 21, 2023Phage Therapy, Polyclonal Bacteraemia, Staphylococcus aureusQuantifying the Economic and Clinical Value of Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative Pathogens Causing Hospital-Acquired Infections in AustraliaSpringer LinkJason P. Gordon, Amer Al Taie, Ryan L. Miller, James W. Dennis, Mark A. T. Blaskovich, Jonathan R. Iredell, John D. Turnidge, Geoffrey W. Coombs, David Charles Grolman & Jacqueline Youssef
June 16, 2023Phage Therapy, Polyclonal Bacteraemia, Staphylococcus aureusStandardised treatment and monitoring protocol to assess safety and tolerability of bacteriophage therapy for adult and paediatric patients (STAMP study): protocol for an open-label, single-arm trialBMJ OpenAmeneh Khatami, David A Foley, Morgyn S Warner, Elizabeth H Barnes, Anton Y Peleg, Jian Li, Stephen Stick, Nettie Burke, Ruby C Y Lin, Julia Warning, Thomas L Snelling, Steven Y C Tong, Jonathan Iredell
June, 2022Phage TherapyPhage Therapy of Mycobacterium Infections: Compassionate-use of Phages in Twenty Patients with Drug-Resistant Mycobacterial DiseaseClinical Infectious DiseasesRebekah M. Dedrick, Bailey E. Smith, Madison Cristinziano, Krista G. Freeman, Deborah Jacobs-Sera, Yvonne Belessis, A. Whitney Brown, Keira A. Cohen, Rebecca M. Davidson, David van Duin, Andrew Gainey, Cristina Berastegui Garcia, C.R. Robert George, Ghady Haidar, Winnie Ip, Jonathan Iredell, Ameneh Khatami, Jessica S. Little, Kirsi Malmivaara, Brendan J. McMullan, David E. Michalik, Andrea Moscatelli, Jerry A. Nick, Maria G. Tupayachi Ortiz, Hari M. Polenakovik, Paul D. Robinson, Mikael Skurnik, Daniel A. Solomon, James Soothill, Helen Spencer, Peter Wark, Austen Worth, Robert T. Schooley, Constance A. Benson, Graham F. Hatfull
November, 2021Phage host range, Pseudomonas, Screening assay, Research paperDevelopment and validation of a miniaturized bacteriophage host range screening assay against antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosaJournal of Microbiological MethodsRenee Nicole Ng, Lucinda Jane Grey, Andrew Vaitekenas, Samantha Abagail McLean, Jack Dylan Rudruma, Daniel Rodolfo Laucirica, Matthew Wee-Peng Poh, Jessica Hillas, Scott Glenn Winslow, Joshua James Iszatt, Thomas Iosifidis, Anna Sze Tai, Patricia Agudelo-Romero, Barbara Jane Chang, Stephen Michael Stick, Anthony Kicic.
October, 2021Antibiotic resistance, Staphylococcus, MRSAHow I manage a patient with MRSA bacteraemiaClinical Microbiology & InfectionJoshua S. Davis, Neta Petersiel, Steven YC. Tong
October, 2021Review paper, Phage Therapy, PediatricsPhage therapy in pediatrics: the way forward for difficult-to-treat infections?Expert Review of Anti-infective TherapyAnnaleise R. Howard-Jones, Jonathan R. Iredell & Ameneh Khatami
September, 2021Antibiotic resistance, UropathogensAntibiotic resistance in uropathogens across northern Australia 2007–20 and impact on treatment guidelinesJAC Antimicrobial ResistanceWill Cuningham, Shalinie Perera, Sonali Coulter, Graeme R Nimmo, Trent Yarwood, Steven Y C Tong, Teresa M Wozniak
September, 2021Review paper, Respiratory Tract infections, Phage TherapyPhage Therapy for Multi-Drug Resistant Respiratory Tract InfectionsMDPI: VirusesJoshua J. Iszatt, Alexander N. Larcombe, Hak-Kim Chan, Stephen M. Stick, Luke W. Garratt and Anthony Kicic.
September, 2021Phage biobankHow Many Health Research Biobanks Are There?Biopreservation and BiobankingSheila O'Donoghue, Simon Dee, Jennifer A. Byrne, and Peter Hamilton Watson
August, 2021Clinical trial, Pediatrics, Immune response, Phage TherapyBacterial lysis, autophagy and innate immune responses during adjunctive phage therapy in a childEMBO Molecular MedicineAmeneh Khatami, Ruby C Y Lin, Aleksandra Petrovic-Fabijan, Sivan Alkalay-Oren, Sulaiman Almuzam, Philip N Britton, Michael J Brownstein, Quang Dao, Joe Fackler, Ronen Hazan, Bri’Anna Horne, Ran Nir-Paz, Jonathan R Iredell
August, 2021Klebsiella, Research paper, Phage biologyMechanistic Insights into the Capsule-Targeting Depolymerase from a Klebsiella pneumoniae BacteriophageASM Journal: Microbiology SpectrumRhys A. Dunstan, Rebecca S. Bamert, Matthew J. Belousoff, Francesca L. Short, Christopher K. Barlow, Derek J. Pickard, Jonathan J. Wilksch, Ralf B. Schittenhelm, Richard A. Strugnell, Gordon Dougan, and Trevor Lithgow
May, 2021Phage biology, Research paperBacteriophage adaptation to a mammalian mucosa reveals a trans-domain evolutionary axisbioRxiv | pre-printWai Hoe Chin, Ciaren Kett, Oren Cooper, Deike Müseler, Yaqi Zhang, Rebecca Bamert, Ruzeen Patwa, Laura C. Woods, Citsabehsan Devendran, Joe Tiralongo, Trevor Lithgow, Mike J. McDonald, Adrian Neild, Jeremy J. Barr
May, 2021Research paper, Phage Machine-Learning, Phage biologyComponent Parts of Bacteriophage Virions Accurately Defined by a Machine-Learning Approach Built on Evolutionary FeaturesASM Journal: mSystemsTze Y. Thung, Murray E. White, Wei Dai, Jonathan J. Wilksch, Rebecca S. Bamert, Andrea Rocker, Christopher J. Stubenrauch, Daniel Williams, Cheng Huang, Ralf Schittelhelm, Jeremy J. Barr, Eleanor Jameson, Sheena McGowan, Yanju Zhang, Jiawei Wang, Rhys A. Dunstan, and Trevor Lithgow
May, 2021Staphylococcus, MRSA, ClinicalAnnals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes - Clinical Pearls—Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus BacteremiaAnnals of Internal MedicineSteven Y.C. Tong
April, 2021Phage biobank, Opinion paperPhage Biobank: Present Challenges and Future PerspectivesCurrent Opinions in BiotechnologyRuby CY Lin, Jessica C Sacher, Pieter-Jan Ceyssens, Jan Zheng, Ali Khalid, Jonathan R Iredell, The Australian Phage Biobanking Network.
February, 2021Phage Therapy, Clinicians, Review paperA Phage Therapy Guide for Clinicians and Basic Scientists: Background and Highlighting Applications for Developing CountriesFrontiers in MicrobiologyAli Khalid, Ruby C. Y. Lin and Jonathan R. Iredell
January, 2021Acinetobacter, Phage-resistance, Research paperBacteriophage-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are resensitized to antimicrobialsNature MicrobiologyFernando Gordillo Altamirano, John H. Forsyth, Ruzeen Patwa, Xenia Kostoulias, Michael Trim, Dinesh Subedi, Stuart K. Archer, Faye C. Morris, Cody Oliveira, Luisa Kielty, Denis Korneev, Moira K. O’Bryan, Trevor J. Lithgow, Anton Y. Peleg & Jeremy J. Barr
December, 2020Phage Virulence, Antibiotic synergy, Research paperRapid automated system for bacteriophage virulence and antibiotic synergy testing – The ‘phago-antibiogram’International Journal of Infectious DiseasesA. Khalid, A.P. Fabijan, S. Maddocks, R.C.Y. Lin J.R. Iredell
November, 2020Pediatrics, Phage Therapy, Clinical trial, Research paperTherapeutic monitoring of the host-bacterium-phage interaction in a childResearch Square | Pre-printAmeneh Khatami, Ruby Lin, Aleksandra Petrovic-Fabijan, Sivan Alkalay-Oren, Sulaiman Almuzam, Philip Britton, Michael Brownstein, Quang Dao, Joseph Fackler, Ronen Hazan, Bri’Anna Horne, Ran Nir-Paz, Jonathan Iredell
November, 2020Respective paper, Phage TherapyThe Promise of viral phage therapy in hernia mesh infection, is this the biological ‘silver bullet’ of the future?ANZ Journal of SurgeryPeter Speck, Morgyn Warner, Jason Clark, ,Anita Jacombs, Alex Karatassas, Chris Hensman
August, 2020Policy Perspective, Phage biobankImproving Academic Biobank Value and Sustainability Through an Outputs FocusValue in HealthAmanda Rush, Daniel R. Catchpoole, Rod Ling, Andrew Searles, Peter H. Watson, Jennifer A.Byrne
July, 2020Phage Therapy, Staphylococcus, Animal modelEfficacy of phage cocktail AB-SA01 therapy in diabetic mouse wound infections caused by multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureusBMC MicrobiologyLegesse Garedew Kifelew, Morgyn S. Warner, Sandra Morales, Lewis Vaughan, Richard Woodman, Robert Fitridge, James G. Mitchell & Peter Speck
June, 2020Cystic Fibrosis, Phage isolation, Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus, PediatricsIsolating and characterising phages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in children with cystic fibrosisJournal of Cystic FibrosisJagdev Singh, Dinesh Subedi, Fernando Lautaro Gordillo Altamirano, Ruzeen Patwa, Hiran Selvadurai, Jeremy Barr, Ameneh Khatami
May, 2020Research paper, Biofilms, Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas, Phage TherapyEfficacy of Lytic Phage Cocktails on Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Mixed-Species Planktonic Cultures and BiofilmsMDPI: VirusesLegesse Garedew Kifelew, Morgyn S. Warner, Sandra Morales, Nicky Thomas, David L. Gordon, James G. Mitchell, and Peter G. Speck.
April, 2020Review paper, Phage TherapyPhage therapy for severe bacterial infections: a narrative reviewThe Medical Journal of AustraliaAleksandra Petrovic Fabijan, Ali Khalid, Susan Maddocks, Josephine Ho, Timothy Gilbey, Indy Sandaradura, Ruby CY Lin, Nouri Ben Zakour, Carola Venturini, Bethany Bowring, Jonathan R Iredell
March, 2020Phage isolation, Klebsiella, Phage Therapy, Research paperIsolation and Characterization of Klebsiella Phages for Phage TherapyPHAGEEleanor M. Townsend, Lucy Kelly, Lucy Gannon, George Muscatt, Rhys Dunstan, Slawomir Michniewski, Hari Sapkota, Saija J. Kiljunen, Anna Kolsi, Mikael Skurnik, Trevor Lithgow, Andrew D. Millard, and Eleanor Jameson
February, 2020Clinical trial, MRSA, AntibioticsEffect of Vancomycin or Daptomycin With vs Without an Antistaphylococcal β-Lactam on Mortality, Bacteremia, Relapse, or Treatment Failure in Patients With MRSA Bacteremia A Randomized Clinical TrialJAMA NetworkSteven Y. C. Tong, David C. Lye, Dafna Yahav
January, 2020Abstract, Phage TherapyBacteriophage therapy in the critically illAustralian Critical CareJosephine Ho, Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan, Ruby CY. Lin, Susan Maddocks, Jonathan Iredell
2020Phage Therapy, Clinical trial, SepsisSafety of bacteriophage therapy in severe Staphylococcus aureus infectionNature MicrobiologyAleksandra Petrovic Fabijan, Ruby CY Lin, Josephine Ho, Susan Maddocks, Nouri L. Ben Zakour, and Jonathan R. Iredell.
March, 2019Phage Therapy, Research paperBacteriophage therapy for severe infectionsMicrobiology AustraliaCarola Venturini, Aleksandra Petrovic Fabjian and Ruby CY Lin