Emma S McBryde

Summary

Affiliation: Royal Melbourne Hospital
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi Risk of active tuberculosis in immigrants: effects of age, region of origin and time since arrival in a low-exposure setting
    Emma S McBryde
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
    Med J Aust 197:458-61. 2012
  2. ncbi Using samples to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of a surveillance process
    Emma S McBryde
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:559-63. 2008
  3. ncbi Validation of statewide surveillance system data on central line-associated bloodstream infection in intensive care units in Australia
    Emma S McBryde
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:1045-9. 2009
  4. ncbi Impact of revising the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System definition for catheter-related bloodstream infection in ICU: reproducibility of the National Healthcare Safety Network case definition in an Australian cohort of infection control p
    Leon J Worth
    Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System VICNISS Coordinating Centre, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Am J Infect Control 37:643-8. 2009
  5. ncbi No association between mannose-binding lectin deficiency and H1N1 2009 infection observed during the first season of this novel pandemic influenza virus
    Damon P Eisen
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    Hum Immunol 72:1091-4. 2011
  6. ncbi Reduced valve replacement surgery and complication rate in Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis patients receiving acetyl-salicylic acid
    Damon P Eisen
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
    J Infect 58:332-8. 2009
  7. ncbi Acetyl salicylic acid usage and mortality in critically ill patients with the systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis
    Damon P Eisen
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    Crit Care Med 40:1761-7. 2012
  8. ncbi The role of general quality improvement measures in decreasing the burden of endemic MRSA in a medical-surgical intensive care unit
    Michelle R Ananda-Rajah
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia
    Intensive Care Med 36:1890-8. 2010
  9. ncbi The limitations of polymerase chain reaction in the setting of possible recurrent tuberculosis: 2 instructional cases
    Thomas R Schulz
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 68:293-6. 2010
  10. ncbi Prior immunity helps to explain wave-like behaviour of pandemic influenza in 1918-9
    John D Mathews
    Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia
    BMC Infect Dis 10:128. 2010

Detail Information

Publications14

  1. ncbi Risk of active tuberculosis in immigrants: effects of age, region of origin and time since arrival in a low-exposure setting
    Emma S McBryde
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
    Med J Aust 197:458-61. 2012
    ..Survival analysis was performed to determine incidence rates of active TB...
  2. ncbi Using samples to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of a surveillance process
    Emma S McBryde
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:559-63. 2008
    ..It provides a formula for deriving confidence intervals for these estimates and a guide to minimum requirements for sampling results...
  3. ncbi Validation of statewide surveillance system data on central line-associated bloodstream infection in intensive care units in Australia
    Emma S McBryde
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:1045-9. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Impact of revising the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System definition for catheter-related bloodstream infection in ICU: reproducibility of the National Healthcare Safety Network case definition in an Australian cohort of infection control p
    Leon J Worth
    Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System VICNISS Coordinating Centre, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Am J Infect Control 37:643-8. 2009
    ..Effective and comparable surveillance for central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in the intensive care unit requires a reproducible case definition that can be readily applied by infection control professionals...
  5. ncbi No association between mannose-binding lectin deficiency and H1N1 2009 infection observed during the first season of this novel pandemic influenza virus
    Damon P Eisen
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    Hum Immunol 72:1091-4. 2011
    ..MBL appears to currently have little impact on innate immune responses to H1N1 2009 influenza...
  6. ncbi Reduced valve replacement surgery and complication rate in Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis patients receiving acetyl-salicylic acid
    Damon P Eisen
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
    J Infect 58:332-8. 2009
    ..To assess the influence of acetyl-salicylic acid (ASA) on clinical outcomes in Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis (SA-IE)...
  7. ncbi Acetyl salicylic acid usage and mortality in critically ill patients with the systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis
    Damon P Eisen
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    Crit Care Med 40:1761-7. 2012
    ..We sought to determine whether acetyl salicylic acid administration at the time of development of systemic inflammatory response syndrome is associated with reduced mortality...
  8. ncbi The role of general quality improvement measures in decreasing the burden of endemic MRSA in a medical-surgical intensive care unit
    Michelle R Ananda-Rajah
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia
    Intensive Care Med 36:1890-8. 2010
    ....
  9. ncbi The limitations of polymerase chain reaction in the setting of possible recurrent tuberculosis: 2 instructional cases
    Thomas R Schulz
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 68:293-6. 2010
    ..We present 2 cases that illustrate the limitations of tuberculosis PCR on respiratory secretions in previously treated patients, even years after the previous disease episode...
  10. ncbi Prior immunity helps to explain wave-like behaviour of pandemic influenza in 1918-9
    John D Mathews
    Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia
    BMC Infect Dis 10:128. 2010
    ..Were they unexposed, or protected by pre-existing cross-immunity in the first wave, by acquired immunity in later waves, or were their infections asymptomatic?..
  11. ncbi The use of anti-tuberculosis therapy for latent TB infection
    Justin T Denholm
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Infect Drug Resist 3:63-72. 2010
    ..This article reviews LTBI therapies and their use in clinical contexts, and considers future directions for individual and population-based strategies in LTBI management...
  12. ncbi Management of latent tuberculosis infections in australia and new zealand: a review of current practice
    Justin T Denholm
    Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan Street, Parkville, Vic, 3050, Australia
    Tuberc Res Treat 2010:284028. 2010
    ..Strategies for increasing uniformity of practice are required, including improved guidelines and physician education...
  13. ncbi Low serum mannose-binding lectin level increases the risk of death due to pneumococcal infection
    Damon P Eisen
    Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases, Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    Clin Infect Dis 47:510-6. 2008
    ..However, MBL deficiency has not been rigorously defined, and associations with sepsis outcomes have not been subjected to multivariable analysis...
  14. ncbi A mathematical model investigating the impact of an environmental reservoir on the prevalence and control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci
    Emma S McBryde
    J Infect Dis 193:1473-4. 2006