Guduru Gopal Rao

Guduru Gopal Rao (born 1954, Cuttack, India) has worked as a consutant in National Health Service since 1990 and is currently the head of the Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Clinical Microbiology at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. Rao is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom.

Rao led the teams that introduced alcohol based hand disinfectants at the end of beds in hospitals for the first time in the UK, in University Hospital Lewisham, back in the early 2000s.

Rao also introduced universal Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) screening at the point of hospital admission for the first time in the UK leading to reduced infection rates. This was later mandated to become national policy.

Rao is an expert advisor for Group B Strep Support and introduced routine Group B Streptococcus (GBS) screening of pregnant women in London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust for the first time in the UK. Provided by Wikipedia
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    To screen or not to screen women for Group B Streptococcus () to prevent early onset sepsis in newborns: recent advances in the unresolved debate

    To screen or not to screen women for Group B Streptococcus () to prevent early onset sepsis in newborns: recent advances in the unresolved debate by Guduru Gopal Rao, Priya Khanna

    Published 2020-07-01
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    Population genetics of group B Streptococcus from maternal carriage in an ethnically diverse community in London

    Population genetics of group B Streptococcus from maternal carriage in an ethnically diverse community in London by Dorota Jamrozy, Guduru Gopal Rao, Guduru Gopal Rao, Theresa Feltwell, Theresa Lamagni, Priya Khanna, Androulla Efstratiou, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D. Bentley

    Published 2023-05-01
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    A case of neck abscess caused by rare hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, capsular type K20 and sequence type 420

    A case of neck abscess caused by rare hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, capsular type K20 and sequence type 420 by John Alexander McHardy, Vathshalan Selvaganeshapillai, Priya Khanna, Ashley Michael Whittington, Jane Turton, Guduru Gopal Rao

    Published 2021-06-01
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    Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes in a cohort of patients with pyogenic and amoebic liver abscess

    Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes in a cohort of patients with pyogenic and amoebic liver abscess by Lorna Neill, Frances Edwards, Simon M. Collin, David Harrington, Dominic Wakerley, Guduru Gopal Rao, Alastair C. McGregor

    Published 2019-06-01
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    Utility of the FebriDx point-of-care assay in supporting a triage algorithm for medical admissions with possible COVID-19: an observational cohort study

    Utility of the FebriDx point-of-care assay in supporting a triage algorithm for medical admissions with possible COVID-19: an observational cohort study by Hamish Houston, John Ross, Ankur Gupta-Wright, Sarah Ann Filson, Nidhi Vaid, Guduru Gopal Rao, Laurence John, Kamal Shah, Gavin Deas, Shivam Naik, Shiras Patel, Maria Greca Dottori, Michael Tay, James Biggin-Lamming, Natalie Vaughan, Amit K Amin

    Published 2021-08-01
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