Panton–Valentine leucocidin is the key determinant of Staphylococcus aureus pyomyositis in a bacterial GWAS by Bernadette C Young, Sarah G Earle, Sona Soeng, Poda Sar, Varun Kumar, Songly Hor, Vuthy Sar, Rachel Bousfield, Nicholas D Sanderson, Leanne Barker, Nicole Stoesser, Katherine RW Emary, Christopher M Parry, Emma K Nickerson, Paul Turner, Rory Bowden, Derrick W Crook, David H Wyllie, Nicholas PJ Day, Daniel J Wilson, Catrin E Moore

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Severe infections emerge from commensal bacteria by adaptive evolution by Bernadette C Young, Chieh-Hsi Wu, N Claire Gordon, Kevin Cole, James R Price, Elian Liu, Anna E Sheppard, Sanuki Perera, Jane Charlesworth, Tanya Golubchik, Zamin Iqbal, Rory Bowden, Ruth C Massey, John Paul, Derrick W Crook, Timothy E Peto, A Sarah Walker, Martin J Llewelyn, David H Wyllie, Daniel J Wilson

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Improving vaccine coverage in adolescence and beyond by Michelle Falconer

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Correction: Ceftriaxone resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A identified in a case of enteric fever: first case report from Pakistan by Seema Irfan, Zahra Hasan, Farah N Qamar, Najia Ghanchi, Javaria Ashraf, Akbar Kanji, Safina Abdul Razzak, David Greig, Satheesh Nair, Rumina Hasan

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Variations of temperature, wind speed and humidity within Birmingham New Street Station during hot weather by Thornes, T

“…In the West Midlands, a heatwave occurs when temperatures at a given location exceed 30 °C on two consecutive days and do not fall below 15 °C on the intervening night (Public Health England, 2013).…”

Harmonisation of in-silico next-generation sequencing based methods for diagnostics and surveillance by J. Nunez-Garcia, M. AbuOun, N. Storey, M. S. Brouwer, J. F. Delgado-Blas, S. S. Mo, N. Ellaby, K. T. Veldman, M. Haenni, P. Châtre, J. Y. Madec, J. A. Hammerl, C. Serna, M. Getino, R. La Ragione, T. Naas, A. A. Telke, P. Glaser, M. Sunde, B. Gonzalez-Zorn, M. J. Ellington, M. F. Anjum

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Prevalence of HIV in mental health service users: a retrospective cohort study by Robert Stewart, Amelia Jewell, Margaret Heslin, Cuong Chau, Lucy Campbell, Ann Sullivan, Elizabeth Hughes, Sara Croxford, Valerie Delpech, Rudiger Pittrof, Alison Brown, Elana Covshoff, Shubulade Smith, Helena P King, Mina Kakaiya

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Hashtagging for Health Promotion: Constructing Meaning as an #AntibioticGuardian by Anna Franca Plastina

“…The research is based on a corpus of sample tweets (N=2,438) taken from #AntibioticGuardian, a campaign led by Public Health England to reduce Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). …”
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Justification of CT practices across Europe: results of a survey of national competent authorities and radiology societies by Shane J. Foley, Ritva Bly, Adrian P. Brady, Steve Ebdon-Jackson, Alexandra Karoussou-Schreiner, Monika Hierath, Jacob Sosna, ESR EU-JUST-CT Project consortium, Boris Brkljačić

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How the COVID 19 pandemic will shape influenza public health initiatives: The UK experience by Mansoor Ashraf, Sankarasubramanian Rajaram, Peter M English

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Cluster detection with random neighbourhood covering: Application to invasive Group A Streptococcal disease. by Massimo Cavallaro, Juliana Coelho, Derren Ready, Valerie Decraene, Theresa Lamagni, Noel D McCarthy, Dan Todkill, Matt J Keeling

“…As a case study, we considered invasive group A Streptococcus infection events as recorded and typed by Public Health England from 2015 to 2020.…”
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Public health and emergency workforce: a roadmap for WHO and partner contributions by John Middleton, Philip Adongo, Sohel Saikat, Neil Squires, Fatai Ogunlayi, Huan Xu, James Campbell, Rania Kawar, Duncan Selbie, Saqif Mustafa, Atiya Mosam, Dale Andrew Fisher, Mehreen B Hunter, Teena Kunjumen, Tapas Sadasivan Nair, Saqif Nowak Mustafa, Khassoum Diallo, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Patrick Anthony Drury, Robert Otok, Carl Reddy, Cris Scotter

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Antimicrobial Stewardship: Development and Pilot of an Organisational Peer-to-Peer Review Tool to Improve Service Provision in Line with National Guidance by Olaolu Oloyede, Emma Cramp, Diane Ashiru-Oredope

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Beyond behaviour: changing foods as well as changing people by Winkler, Jack

“…This strategy has numerous advantages. As Public Health England says, “These approaches to sugar reduction do not rely on individual behaviour change.” …”

The ethics of setting national antibiotic policies using financial incentives. by Li, G, Hooper, C, Papanikitas, A, Hopkins, S, Sharland, M

“…<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly urgent global public health issue. Data from Public Health England- English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR) - quantifies the scale of antibiotic resistance in key bacterial pathogens. …”

Neisseria lactamica Y92-1009 complete genome sequence. by Pandey, AK, Cleary, DW, Laver, JR, Maiden, MCJ, Didelot, X, Gorringe, A, Read, RC

“…The strain is available on request from the Public Health England Meningococcal Reference Unit. This Gram negative, dipplococcoid bacterium is an organism of worldwide clinical interest because human nasopharyngeal carriage is related inversely to the incidence of meningococcal disease, caused by Neisseria meningitidis. …”

Leprosy in skulls from the Paris Catacombs by Patrícia D. Deps, Simon M. Collin, Sylvie Robin, Philippe Charlier

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Analysis of TaqMan Array Cards Data by an Assumption-Free Improvement of the maxRatio Algorithm Is More Accurate than the Cycle-Threshold Method. by Luigi Marongiu, Eric Shain, Lydia Drumright, Reidun Lillestøl, Donald Somasunderam, Martin D Curran

“…In the present study, 328 residual clinical samples provided by the Public Health England at Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge, UK) were processed by TaqMan Array Card assay, generating 15 744 reactions from 54 targets. …”
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Summary and comparison of recently updated post-polypectomy surveillance guidelines by Yoon Suk Jung

“…Multi‐Society Task Force (USMSTF), the British Society of Gastroenterology/Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland/Public Health England (BSG/ACPGBI/PHE), the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE), the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES), and the Korean Multi-Society Taskforce Committee. …”
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Vaccines and routine immunization strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic by Ener Cagri Dinleyici, Ray Borrow, Marco Aurélio Palazzi Safadi, Pierre van Damme, Flor M. Munoz

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