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Derrick W. Crook

Researcher at University of Oxford

Publications -  510
Citations -  38699

Derrick W. Crook is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 92, co-authored 474 publications receiving 29885 citations. Previous affiliations of Derrick W. Crook include Oxford Brookes University & The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Insidious Risk of Severe Mycobacterium chimaera Infection in Cardiac Surgery Patients.

TL;DR: These investigations strengthen etiological evidence for the role of heater-coolers in transmission and raise the possibility of an ongoing, international point-source outbreak of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera in cardiothoracic surgery.
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Hybrid Vibrio vulnificus

TL;DR: Hybridization between natural populations of Vibrio vulnificus results in hyperinvasive clone.
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Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile colonisation and onward transmission.

TL;DR: Transmission events from any one asymptomatic carrier are likely to be relatively rare, but as asymPTomatic carriage is common, it may still be an important source of CDI, which could be quantified in larger studies.