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List of works by Ronan F O'Toole

A cost-effective technique for generating preservable biomass smoke extract and measuring its effect on cell receptor expression in human bronchial epithelial cells

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

A step-by-step beginner's protocol for whole genome sequencing of human bacterial pathogens

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

A two-component regulator of universal stress protein expression and adaptation to oxygen starvation in Mycobacterium smegmatis

scientific article published on March 2003

An antagonist of the platelet-activating factor receptor inhibits adherence of both nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae to cultured human bronchial epithelial cells exposed to cigarette smoke

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Chemotactic motility is required for invasion of the host by the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum.

scientific article published in February 1996

Comparative bioactivation of the novel anti-tuberculosis agent PA-824 in Mycobacteria and a subcellular fraction of human liver

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Comparison of the microalgal community within fast ice at two sites along the Ross Sea coast, Antarctica

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Contrasting signal transduction mechanisms in bacterial and eukaryotic gene transcription

scientific article published on August 2006

Convergence in the Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of COPD and Pneumonia.

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Detection of inhibitors of phenotypically drug-tolerant Mycobacterium tuberculosis using an in vitro bactericidal screen

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Development and application of unstable GFP variants to kinetic studies of mycobacterial gene expression

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Development of a Mycobacterium smegmatis transposon mutant array for characterising the mechanism of action of tuberculosis drugs: Findings with isoniazid and its structural analogues

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Development of a New Genome-Wide MLST Scheme for High-Resolution Typing of Diverse Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Strains

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Differential carriage of virulence-associated loci in the New Zealand Rangipo outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Driven by Historical European Trade in the South Pacific

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Does upregulated host cell receptor expression provide a link between bacterial adhesion and chronic respiratory disease?

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Draft Genome Sequence of New Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Sequence Type 1421.

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Draft Genome Sequence of a Drug-Susceptible New Zealand Isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 3.

scientific article published on 21 May 2015

Draft Genome Sequence of a Multidrug-Resistant New Zealand Isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 3.

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Draft Genome Sequence of a New Zealand Rangipo Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Draft Genome Sequence of an Isolate of Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Nepal

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Draft Genome Sequence of an Isolate of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae from an Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Tasmania

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Draft Genome Sequence of the First Confirmed Isolate of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Tasmania

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Draft Genome Sequence of the First Isolate of Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ireland

scientific article published on 9 October 2014

Draft Genome Sequence of the First Isolate of Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in New Zealand

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Draft genome sequence of a nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strain used in the study of human respiratory infection

publication published on 01 April 2021

Emergence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium at an Australian Hospital: A Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis.

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Establishing the critical role of peripheral blood vessel colonisation by Neisseria meningitidis in invasive meningococcal disease

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Evaluation of the Mycobacterium smegmatis and BCG models for the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibitors

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Experimental models used to study human tuberculosis

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Exposure to bushfire and biomass smoke and the risk of bacterial and viral lung infection

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Expression of zebrafish cxcl8 (interleukin-8) and its receptors during development and in response to immune stimulation.

scientific article published in December 2009

Hypoxia-inducible factor and bacterial infections in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Identification and bioactivity of 3-epi-xestoaminol C isolated from the New Zealand brown alga Xiphophora chondrophylla

scientific article published on 23 May 2014

Intercontinental translocation of latent multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis to Australia demonstrated by whole genome sequencing

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Investigation of the physiological relationship between the cyanide-insensitive oxidase and cyanide production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Limitations of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis reference genome H37Rv in the detection of virulence-related loci

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Modifying culture conditions in chemical library screening identifies alternative inhibitors of mycobacteria

scientific article published on 28 September 2009

Molecular epidemiology of multi- and extensively-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ireland, 2001-2014.

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Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Tasmania and genomic characterisation of its first known multi-drug resistant case

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Native New Zealand plants with inhibitory activity towards Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Navigating tuberculosis drug discovery with target-based screening

scientific article published on 25 May 2011

Phylogenetic lineages of tuberculosis isolates in New Zealand and their association with patient demographics.

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Platelet activating factor receptor: gateway for bacterial chronic airway infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and potential therapeutic target

scientific article published on August 2015

Progress in the Development of Platelet-Activating Factor Receptor (PAFr) Antagonists and Applications in the Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases

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Relating Microbial Community and Physicochemical Parameters of a Hot Spring: Champagne Pool, Wai-o-tapu, New Zealand

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Relating annual migration from high tuberculosis burden country of origin to changes in foreign-born tuberculosis notification rates in low-medium incidence European countries

scientific article published on 6 August 2016

Role of Oxidative Stress in the Pathology and Management of Human Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

RpoN of the fish pathogen Vibrio (Listonella) anguillarum is essential for flagellum production and virulence by the water-borne but not intraperitoneal route of inoculation.

scientific article published on December 1997

Subcuticular bacteria associated with two common New Zealand echinoderms: Characterization using 16S rRNA sequence analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization.

scientific article published in February 2010

TB meets COPD: An emerging global co-morbidity in human lung disease.

scientific article published on 02 September 2015

Targeting the chromosome partitioning protein ParA in tuberculosis drug discovery

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Temporal upregulation of host surface receptors provides a window of opportunity for bacterial adhesion and disease

scientific article published on 22 January 2017

Tetracycline-inducible gene regulation in mycobacteria

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The Link between Regional Tidal Stretch and Lung Injury during Mechanical Ventilation

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The chemotactic response of Vibrio anguillarum to fish intestinal mucus is mediated by a combination of multiple mucus components

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The host microbiome and impact of tuberculosis chemotherapy

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: marine or freshwater?

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The role of environmental exposure to non-cigarette smoke in lung disease

Tuberculosis incidence in the Irish Traveller population in Ireland from 2002 to 2013.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Universal stress proteins and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Visualisation of zebrafish infection by GFP-labelled Vibrio anguillarum

scientific article published in July 2004

Whole genome sequencing: a new paradigm in the surveillance and control of human tuberculosis

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