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Elizabeth A Grabsch
Researcher at Monash Medical Centre
Publications - 29
Citations - 1816
Elizabeth A Grabsch is an academic researcher from Monash Medical Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enterococcus faecium & Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 27 publications receiving 1686 citations.
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Treatment Outcomes for Serious Infections Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Reduced Vancomycin Susceptibility
Benjamin P Howden,Peter B. Ward,Patrick G. P. Charles,Tony M. Korman,Andrew Fuller,Philipp du Cros,Elizabeth A Grabsch,Sally A. Roberts,Jenny Robson,Kerry Read,Narin Bak,James C. Hurley,Paul D R Johnson,Arthur J. Morris,Barrie C. Mayall,M Lindsay Grayson,M Lindsay Grayson +16 more
TL;DR: Antibiotic therapy, especially linezolid with or without rifampicin and fusidic acid, in conjunction with surgical debulking is effective therapy for the majority of patients with serious infections (including endocarditis) caused by SA-RVS.
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Single-versus multiple–dose antimicrobial prophylaxis for major surgery: a systematic review
TL;DR: Conclusions suggest continued use of single-dose antimicrobial prophylaxis for major surgery is recommended and further studies are required, especially in previously neglected surgical disciplines.
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Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection.
Paul D R Johnson,Rhea Martin,Laurelle J Burrell,Elizabeth A Grabsch,Susan W Kirsa,Jason O’Keeffe,Barrie C. Mayall,Deidre Edmonds,Wendy Barr,Christopher Bolger,Humsha Naidoo,M Lindsay Grayson +11 more
TL;DR: To assess the effect of a multifaceted hand hygiene culture‐change program on health care worker behaviour, and to reduce the burden of nosocomial methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
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Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols
Sacha J. Pidot,Wei Gao,Andrew H. Buultjens,Ian R. Monk,Romain Guérillot,Glen P. Carter,Jean Y. H. Lee,Margaret M. C. Lam,M Lindsay Grayson,M Lindsay Grayson,Susan A Ballard,Andrew A Mahony,Elizabeth A Grabsch,Despina Kotsanas,Tony M. Korman,Geoffrey W. Coombs,Geoffrey W. Coombs,J. Owen Robinson,J. Owen Robinson,Anders Gonçalves da Silva,Torsten Seemann,Benjamin P Howden,Paul Dr Johnson,Timothy P. Stinear +23 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the tolerance of 139 hospital isolates of E. faecium to isopropanol surface disinfection and found that the resistant strain was 10-fold more tolerant to killing by alcohol than were older isolates.
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A sustained hospital outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteremia due to emergence of vanB E. faecium sequence type 203.
Paul Dr Johnson,Susan A Ballard,Elizabeth A Grabsch,Timothy P. Stinear,Timothy P. Stinear,Torsten Seemann,Heather L. Young,M Lindsay Grayson,Benjamin P Howden +8 more
TL;DR: The application of multilocus sequence typing has uncovered the emergence of an epidemic clone of E. faecium ST203 that appears to have acquired the vanB locus and has caused a sustained outbreak of VRE bacteremia.