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Thomas Inns
Researcher at University of Liverpool
Publications - 34
Citations - 1215
Thomas Inns is an academic researcher from University of Liverpool. The author has contributed to research in topics: Outbreak & Population. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 31 publications receiving 980 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Inns include St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust & European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
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Whole-genome sequencing to identify transmission of Mycobacterium abscessus between patients with cystic fibrosis: a retrospective cohort study
Josephine M. Bryant,Dorothy M Grogono,Daniel Greaves,J. Foweraker,Iain Roddick,Thomas Inns,Thomas Inns,Mark Reacher,Charles S. Haworth,Martin D. Curran,Simon R. Harris,Sharon J. Peacock,Julian Parkhill,R. Andres Floto,R. Andres Floto +14 more
TL;DR: Whole genome sequencing has revealed frequent transmission of multidrug resistant NTM between patients with cystic fibrosis despite conventional cross-infection measures.
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Prospective use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) detected a multi-country outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis.
Thomas Inns,Philip Ashton,Silvia Herrera-León,J. Lighthill,Sarah Foulkes,Thibaut Jombart,Y. Rehman,A Fox,Timothy J. Dallman,E. de Pinna,L. Browning,J. E. Coia,Obaghe Edeghere,Roberto Vivancos +13 more
TL;DR: This outbreak in the UK was linked with contemporaneous cases in Spain by WGS and it is concluded that UK and Spanish cases were exposed to a common source of Salmonella-contaminated chicken eggs.
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A multi-country Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 14b outbreak associated with eggs from a German producer: 'near real-time' application of whole genome sequencing and food chain investigations, United Kingdom, May to September 2014.
Thomas Inns,C. Lane,Tansy Peters,Timothy J. Dallman,C Chatt,Nikolaus R. McFarland,Paul Crook,T Bishop,J Edge,Jeremy Hawker,Richard Elson,K Neal,Goutam K. Adak,Paul Cleary +13 more
TL;DR: Food traceback investigations in the UK and other affected European countries linked the outbreaks to chicken eggs from a German company and whole genome sequencing of isolates from UK and European cases, implicated UK premises, and German eggs confirmed that the UK outbreak was also linked to a German producer.
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Phylogenetic structure of European Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak correlates with national and international egg distribution network
Timothy J. Dallman,Thomas Inns,Thibaut Jombart,Philip Ashton,Nicholas J. Loman,Carol Chatt,Ute Messelhaeusser,Wolfgang Rabsch,Sandra Simon,Sergejs Nikisins,Helen Bernard,Simon Le Hello,Nathalie Jourdan da-Silva,Christian Kornschober,Joël Mossong,Peter M. Hawkey,Elizabeth de Pinna,Kathie Grant,Paul Cleary +18 more
TL;DR: A clear statistical correlation was shown between the topology of the UK egg distribution network and the phylogenetic network of outbreak isolates and the level of insight into the outbreak epidemiology provided by whole-genome sequencing (WGS) would not have been possible using traditional microbial typing methods.
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An outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with contaminated salad leaves: epidemiological, genomic and food trace back investigations.
Amy Mikhail,Claire Jenkins,Timothy J. Dallman,Thomas Inns,A Douglas,Antonio Isidro Carrion Martin,A Fox,Paul Cleary,Richard Elson,Jeremy Hawker +9 more
TL;DR: By mapping the recent movement of sheep and lambs across the United Kingdom, epidemiological links were established between the cases reporting ovine exposures and it is plausible that ovine faeces may have contaminated the salad leaves via untreated irrigation water or run-off from fields nearby.