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William Welfare
Researcher at Public Health England
Publications - 46
Citations - 4028
William Welfare is an academic researcher from Public Health England. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Outbreak. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 44 publications receiving 3096 citations. Previous affiliations of William Welfare include Health Protection Agency & University of Manchester.
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Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study
Karthikeyan Kumarasamy,Mark Toleman,Timothy R. Walsh,Jay Bagaria,Fafhana Butt,Ravikumar Balakrishnan,Uma Chaudhary,Michel Doumith,Christian G. Giske,Seema Irfan,Padma Krishnan,Anil Kumar,Sunil Maharjan,Shazad Mushtaq,Tabassum Noorie,David L. Paterson,A. Pearson,Claire Perry,Rachel Pike,Bhargavi Rao,Ujjwayini Ray,Jayanta B. Sarma,Madhu Sharma,Elizabeth Sheridan,M A Thirunarayan,Jane F. Turton,Supriya Upadhyay,Marina Warner,William Welfare,David M. Livermore,Neil Woodford +30 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of NDM-1, in multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in India, Pakistan, and the UK is investigated, and co-ordinated international surveillance is needed.
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Human-to-Human Transmission of Monkeypox Virus, United Kingdom, October 2018
Aisling Vaughan,Emma Aarons,John Astbury,Tim Brooks,Meera Chand,P J Flegg,Angela Hardman,Nick Harper,Richard Jarvis,Sharon Mawdsley,Mark McGivern,Dilys Morgan,Gwyn Morris,Grainne Nixon,Catherine O’Connor,Ruth Palmer,Nick Phin,D Ashley Price,Katherine Russell,Bengü Said,Matthias Schmid,Roberto Vivancos,Amanda L. Walsh,William Welfare,Jennifer Wilburn,Jake Dunning +25 more
TL;DR: In September 2018, monkeypox virus was transmitted from a patient to a healthcare worker in the United Kingdom and 4 patients survived; all patients survived.
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Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022
Roberto Vivancos,Charlotte Anderson,Paula Blomquist,S. Balasegaram,Anita Bell,Louise Bishop,Colin S Brown,Yimmy Chow,Obaghe Edeghere,Isaac Florence,Sarah Logan,Petra Manley,William J Crowe,Andrew McAuley,Ananda Giri Shankar,Borja Mora-Peris,Karthik Paranthaman,Mateo Prochazka,Cian Ryan,David Simons,Richard Vipond,Chloe Byers,Nicholas A Watkins,William Welfare,Elizabeth Whittaker,Claire Dewsnap,Allegra Wilson,Yvonne Young,Meera Chand,Steven Riley,Susan Hopkins +30 more
TL;DR: This is the first reported sustained MPXV transmission in the UK, with human-to-human transmission through close contacts, including in sexual networks, and improving case ascertainment and onward-transmission preventive measures are ongoing.
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Evidence of person-to-person transmission within a family cluster of novel coronavirus infections, United Kingdom, February 2013.
Mamoona Tahir,Roger Gajraj,Madhu Bardhan,Huda Mohammed,Louise Dyke,Petra Charlemagne,Rea Alves,David Kirrage,Dan Killalea,Kate James,Melinda Kemp,Harsh Duggal,Robert Carr,Musarrat Afza,Nicholas Aigbogun,Bharat Sibal,Ruth Harrell,Obaghe Edeghere,Keith R. Neal,S. Ibbotson,Nimal Wickramasinghe,Nick Sherwood,Beryl Oppenheim,Louise Hopton,Husam Osman,Erasmus Smit,Sowsan Atabani,Judith Workman,Steve Wilson,Clair Overton-Lewis,Margaret Logan,Rosemary McCann,Marko Petrovic,Vinay Bothra,William Welfare,B. Isalska,Julian Barker,Alan Ashworth,Igor Fedor,Claude Seng,Deepti Kumar,Suzanna Matthews,Brian McCloskey,Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam,Paul Cosford,Alison Bermingham,Joanna Ellis,Monica Galiano,Angie Lackenby,Richard M. Myers,Robin Gopal,Maria Zambon,Richard Pebody,Lucy Thomas,Nicki Boddington,Helen K. Green,Hongxin Zhao,Iain T R Kennedy,Ibrahim Abubakar,Jane Jones,Nick Phin,Mike Catchpole,John M Watson +62 more
TL;DR: In February 2013, novel coronavirus infection was diagnosed in an adult male in the United Kingdom with severe respiratory illness, who had travelled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia 10 days before symptom onset.
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A Large, Refractory Nosocomial Outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli Demonstrates Carbapenemase Gene Outbreaks Involving Sink Sites Require Novel Approaches to Infection Control.
Valerie Decraene,H T T Phan,H T T Phan,Ryan George,David H. Wyllie,David H. Wyllie,O Akinremi,O Akinremi,Zoie Aiken,Paul Cleary,A Dodgson,A Dodgson,Louise Pankhurst,Louise Pankhurst,Derrick W. Crook,Derrick W. Crook,Derrick W. Crook,Cheryl Lenney,A S Walker,A S Walker,Neil Woodford,Neil Woodford,Robert Sebra,F Fath-Ordoubadi,Amy J. Mathers,Anna C. Seale,Anna C. Seale,Malcolm Guiver,A McEwan,Vicky Watts,William Welfare,William Welfare,Nicole Stoesser,Nicole Stoesser,Julie Cawthorne +34 more
TL;DR: Investigation of a large Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli outbreak and wider CRE incidence trends in the Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust over 8 years determined the impact of infection prevention and control measures was evaluated.