Vitali Sintchenko

Which clinical decisions benefit from automation? A task complexity approach.

Comparative impact of guidelines, clinical data, and decision support on prescribing decisions: an interactive web experiment with simulated cases.

Which clinical decisions benefit from automation? A task complexity approach.

Handheld computer-based decision support reduces patient length of stay and antibiotic prescribing in critical care.

Screening for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria.

A case of urinary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis subspecies caprae.

Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in New South Wales: results from 18 months of a statewide trial.

Utility of genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the contact investigation: a decision analysis.

Decision complexity affects the extent and type of decision support use.

An outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis in young Australians.

Pathogen profiling for disease management and surveillance.

Point-of-care testing for community-acquired pneumonia: do we have all the answers?

Are we measuring the right end-points? Variables that affect the impact of computerised decision support on patient outcomes: a systematic review.

Comparison of single- and multilocus sequence typing and toxin gene profiling for characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Is Bordetella pertussis susceptibility to erythromycin changing? MIC trends among Australian isolates 1971-2006.

Are clinicians' information needs and decision support affected by different models of care? Experimental study.

Developing decision support systems in clinical bioinformatics.

Biosurveillance of emerging biothreats using scalable genotype clustering.

Genome-wide analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in Bordetella pertussis using comparative genomic sequencing.

Decision support systems for antibiotic prescribing.

The re-emergence of pertussis: implications for diagnosis and surveillance.

Towards bioinformatics assisted infectious disease control.

In silico prioritisation of candidate genes for prokaryotic gene function discovery: an application of phylogenetic profiles.

Rapid and accurate typing of Bordetella pertussis targeting genes encoding acellular vaccine antigens using real time PCR and High Resolution Melt analysis.

Laboratory-guided detection of disease outbreaks: three generations of surveillance systems.

Identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria: utility of the GenoType Mycobacterium CM/AS assay compared with HPLC and 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

A new multiplex PCR-based reverse line-blot hybridization (mPCR/RLB) assay for rapid staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing.

Rolling circle amplification and multiplex allele-specific PCR for rapid detection of katG and inhA gene mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Assignment of Reference 5'-end 16S rDNA Sequences and Species-Specific Sequence Polymorphisms Improves Species Identification of Nocardia.

Influenza outbreak during Sydney World Youth Day 2008: the utility of laboratory testing and case definitions on mass gathering outbreak containment.

Commonly used molecular epidemiology markers of Streptococcus agalactiae do not appear to predict virulence.

Identification of pathogenic Nocardia species by reverse line blot hybridization targeting the 16S rRNA and 16S-23S rRNA gene spacer regions.

Reverse line blot hybridization and DNA sequencing studies of the 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer regions of five emerging pathogenic Nocardia species.

Bordetella pertussis clones identified by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis.

A PubMed-wide associational study of infectious diseases.

Three-year longitudinal study of genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a low prevalence population.

Rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in hospitals by use of phage-derived open reading frame typing enhanced by multiplex PCR and reverse line blot assay.

Unexpected diversity of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains.

secA1 gene sequence polymorphisms for species identification of Nocardia species and recognition of intraspecies genetic diversity.

Insight into evolution of Bordetella pertussis from comparative genomic analysis: evidence of vaccine-driven selection.

Editor's choice: Implications of isoniazid resistance in Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin used for immunotherapy in bladder cancer.

Improved identification of Gordonia, Rhodococcus and Tsukamurella species by 5'-end 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

Computational bacterial genome-wide analysis of phylogenetic profiles reveals potential virulence genes of Streptococcus agalactiae.

Bug breakfast in the Bulletin: Biosecurity and infectious diseases.

Defining reference sequences for Nocardia species by similarity and clustering analyses of 16S rRNA gene sequence data.

Genetic relationships of phage types and single nucleotide polymorphism typing of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

Selection and emergence of pertussis toxin promoter ptxP3 allele in the evolution of Bordetella pertussis.

Improving resolution of public health surveillance for human Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection: 3 years of prospective multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA).

Protocol for a randomised controlled trial examining the impact of a web-based personally controlled health management system on the uptake of influenza vaccination rates.

Impact of a web-based personally controlled health management system on influenza vaccination and health services utilization rates: a randomized controlled trial.

Translational web robots for pathogen genome analysis.

Linear normalised hash function for clustering gene sequences and identifying reference sequences from multiple sequence alignments.

Prospective genotyping of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates by use of a novel, highly discriminatory binary typing system.

Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica, Tasmania, Australia, 2011.

Quantitative estimation of the stability of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain-typing systems by use of Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.

Software for selecting the most informative sets of genomic loci for multi-target microbial typing.

The use of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing and whole genome sequencing to inform tuberculosis prevention and control activities.

Potent antimycobacterial activity of the pyridoxal isonicotinoyl hydrazone analog 2-pyridylcarboxaldehyde isonicotinoyl hydrazone: a lipophilic transport vehicle for isonicotinic acid hydrazide.

Effectiveness of hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection control policies differs by ward specialty.

Rapid increase in pertactin-deficient Bordetella pertussis isolates, Australia.

Pathogen genome bioinformatics.

Improved identification of rapidly growing mycobacteria by a 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer region PCR and capillary gel electrophoresis.

Use of the 5' untranslated region and VP1 region to examine the molecular diversity in enterovirus B species.

Fluoroquinolone resistance in non-multidrug-resistant tuberculosis-a surveillance study in New South Wales, Australia, and a review of global resistance rates.

Temporal dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in New South Wales, Australia.

Clinical microbiology informatics.

Investigating genome reduction of Bordetella pertussis using a multiplex PCR-based reverse line blot assay (mPCR/RLB).

Added value of whole-genome sequencing for management of highly drug-resistant TB.

Delineating community outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by use of whole-genome sequencing: insights into genomic variability within an outbreak.

Proficiency testing for bacterial whole genome sequencing: an end-user survey of current capabilities, requirements and priorities.

Intercontinental dissemination of azithromycin-resistant shigellosis through sexual transmission: a cross-sectional study.

The role of pathogen genomics in assessing disease transmission.

Genome sequencing reveals novel deletions associated with secondary resistance to pyrazinamide in MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Defining the Core Genome of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium for Genomic Surveillance and Epidemiological Typing.

Genomic Epidemiology of Clostridium botulinum Isolates from Temporally Related Cases of Infant Botulism in New South Wales, Australia.

Editorial: Laboratory preparedness for Ebolavirus disease.

Epidemiology of Peripheral Lymph Node Tuberculosis and Genotyping of M. tuberculosis Strains: A Case-Control Study.

Genotype heterogeneity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within geospatial hotspots suggests foci of imported infection in Sydney, Australia.

Genomic Variability of Serial Human Isolates of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Associated with Prolonged Carriage.

It Is Not All about Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms: Comparison of Mobile Genetic Elements and Deletions in Listeria monocytogenes Genomes Links Cases of Hospital-Acquired Listeriosis to the Environmental Source.

Pertactin negative Bordetella pertussis demonstrates higher fitness under vaccine selection pressure in a mixed infection model.

Antibiotic susceptibility of diverse Mycobacterium abscessus complex strains in New South Wales, Australia.

Genomic dissection of Australian Bordetella pertussis isolates from the 2008-2012 epidemic.

Identifying Likely Transmission Pathways within a 10-Year Community Outbreak of Tuberculosis by High-Depth Whole Genome Sequencing.

Concordance of four commercial enzyme immunoassay and three immunoblot formats for the detection of Lyme borreliosis antibodies in human serum: the two-tier approach remains.

dfrA thyA Double Deletion in para-Aminosalicylic Acid-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains.

Nontoxic Metal-Cyclam Complexes, a New Class of Compounds with Potency against Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Better colonisation of newly emerged Bordetella pertussis in the co-infection mouse model study.

Whole genome sequencing of Salmonella Typhimurium illuminates distinct outbreaks caused by an endemic multi-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis type in Australia, 2014.

SnpFilt: A pipeline for reference-free assembly-based identification of SNPs in bacterial genomes.

Whole Genome Sequencing Demonstrates Limited Transmission within Identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clusters in New South Wales, Australia.

16S-23S Internal Transcribed Spacer Region PCR and Sequencer-Based Capillary Gel Electrophoresis has Potential as an Alternative to High Performance Liquid Chromatography for Identification of Slowly Growing Nontuberculous Mycobacteria.

Transmission of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Mongolia is driven by Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to all first-line drugs.

Evolution of Variable Number Tandem Repeats and Its Relationship with Genomic Diversity in Salmonella Typhimurium.

Assignment of recA reference sequence types for enhanced identification of the Burkholderia cepacia complex.

Characterisation of the Bordetella pertussis secretome under different media.

Genomic heterogeneity of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium bacteriuria from chronic infection.

Francisella tularensis ssp. holarctica in Ringtail Possums, Australia.

Drug resistance and Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain diversity in TB/HIV co-infected patients in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Comparative genomics of Australian and international isolates of Salmonella Typhimurium: correlation of core genome evolution with CRISPR and prophage profiles.

Genome sequencing links persistent outbreak of legionellosis in Sydney to an emerging clone of Legionella pneumophila ST211.