National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC)

Publications

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Preliminary optimisation of a simplified sample preparation method to permit direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 within saliva samples using reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP)

Emma L. A. Howson, Stephen P. Kidd, Bryony Armson, Alice Goring, Jason Sawyer, Claire Cassar, David Cross, Tom Lewis, Jess Hockey, Samantha Rivers, Saira Cawthraw, Ashley Banyard, Paul Anderson, Sabah Rahou, Michael Andreou, Nick Morant, Duncan Clark, Charlotte Walsh, Shailen Laxman, Rebecca Houghton, Joanne Slater-Jefferies, Paula Costello, Ian Brown, Nicholas Cortes, Keith Godfrey & Veronica L. Fowler, 2020, Journal of Virological Methods

DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2020.114048

Type: article

Non-surface attached bacterial aggregates

2020, Frontiers in Microbiology, 11

DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.557035

Type: article

An integrated model system to gain mechanistic insights into biofilm-associated antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa MPAO1

Adithi R. Varadarajan, Raymond N. Allan, Jules D.P. Valentin, Olga E. Castañeda Ocampo, Vincent Somerville, Franziska Pietsch, Matthias T. Buhmann, Jonathan West, Paul J. Skipp, Henny C. van der Mei, Qun Ren, Frank Schreiber, Jeremy S. Webb & Christian H. Ahrens, 2020, NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes, 6(1)

DOI: 10.1038/s41522-020-00154-8

Type: article

Differential impact on motility and biofilm dispersal of closely related phosphodiesterases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Yu-Ming Cai, Andrew Hutchin, Jack Craddock, Martin A Walsh, Jeremy S. Webb & Ivo Tews, 2020, Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-12

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63008-5

Type: article

A cold water, ultrasonically activated stream efficiently removes proteins and prion-associated amyloid from surgical stainless steel

T.J. Secker, Timothy Leighton, Douglas Offin, Peter R. Birkin, Rodolphe Herve & Charles Keevil, 2020, Journal of Hospital Infection, 106(4), 649-656

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.09.021

Type: article