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Helen Fifer
Researcher at Public Health England
Publications - 74
Citations - 1946
Helen Fifer is an academic researcher from Public Health England. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1349 citations.
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Failure of Dual Antimicrobial Therapy in Treatment of Gonorrhea
Helen Fifer,Usha Natarajan,Lucy Jones,Sarah Alexander,Gwenda Hughes,Daniel Golparian,Magnus Unemo +6 more
TL;DR: The clinical failure of ceftriaxone and azithromycin in a patient with gonorrhea is described.
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Gonorrhoea treatment failure caused by a Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with combined ceftriaxone and high-level azithromycin resistance, England, February 2018
David W Eyre,Nicholas D Sanderson,Emily Lord,Natasha Regisford-Reimmer,Kevin K Chau,Leanne Barker,Markus Morgan,Robert Newnham,Daniel Golparian,Magnus Unemo,Derrick W. Crook,Derrick W. Crook,Derrick W. Crook,Tim E. A. Peto,Tim E. A. Peto,Gwenda Hughes,Michelle J Cole,Helen Fifer,Anne Edwards,Monique Andersson +19 more
TL;DR: A heterosexual male was diagnosed with gonorrhoea in the United Kingdom following sexual intercourse with a locally resident female in Thailand and failed treatment with ceftriaxone plus doxycycline and subsequently spectinomycin, resulting in resistance arose from two mechanisms combining for the first time in a genetic background similar to a commonly circulating strain.
English surveillance programme for antimicrobial utilisation and resistance (ESPAUR) 2010 to 2014: report 2015
Susan Hopkins,Berit Muller-Pebody,Rebecca Guy,Sarah Gerver,Dean Ironmonger,Richard Puleston,Miranda G. Loutet,Maeve K. Lalor,Jennifer Davidson,Tehreem Mohiyuddin,H Lucy Thomas,Hikaru Bolt,Antara Kundu,Katy Town,Martina Furegato,Hamish Mohammed,Michelle J Cole,Aura Andreason,Helen Fifer,Stephanie A. Chisholm,Gwenda Hughes,Katie Hopkins,Rachel Freeman,Neil Woodford,Graeme Rooney,David Ladenheim,Miroslava Mihalkova,Katherine L. Henderson,Diane Ashiru-Oredope,Christopher Fuller,Alex Bhattacharya,Peter Stephens,Mehdi Minaji,Emma L. Budd,Anna Sallis,Cliodna McNulty,Elizabeth Beech,Stuart Brown,Philip Howard,Alan P. Johnson +39 more
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2018 UK national guideline for the management of infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae
TL;DR: Changes since 2011 guideline • First line empirical treatment is now monotherapy with ceftriaxone 1 g intramuscularly • If antimicrobial susceptibility test results from all sites of infection are available prior to treatment and the isolate is sensitive to ciprofloxacin, then this should be used for treatment in preference to ceftRIaxone
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British Association for Sexual Health and HIV national guideline for the management of infection with Mycoplasma genitalium (2018).
Suneeta Soni,Paddy Horner,Michael Rayment,Nicolas Pinto-Sander,Nadia Naous,Andy Parkhouse,Darren Bancroft,Carl Patterson,Helen Fifer +8 more
TL;DR: This is the first British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) guideline for the diagnosis and management of Mycoplasma genitalium in people aged 16 years and older.