Andrew Buultjens

Low-Cost, Open-Source Device for High-Performance Fluorescence Detection of Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Reactions

Andrew H Buultjens, Koen Vandelannoote, Liam K Sharkey, Benjamin P Howden, Ian R Monk, Jean YH Lee, Timothy P Stinear

Journal article  |  2021  |  ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

The ability to detect SARS-CoV-2 is critical to implementing evidence-based strategies to address the COVID-19 global pandemic. Ex..

Accessible Platform for High-Throughput COVID-19 Molecular Diagnostics and Genome Sequencing Using a Repurposed 3D Printer for RNA Extraction

Koen Vandelannoote, Andrew H Buultjens, Lucy Li, Liam K Sharkey, Marion Herisse, Sacha J Pidot, Hoang Tuyet, Benjamin P Howden, Ian R Monk, Torsten Seemann, Jean YH Lee, Timothy P Stinear

Journal article  |  2021  |  ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the dependence of diagnostic laboratories on a handful of large corporations with market monopol..

Vaccine-Specific Immune Responses against Mycobacterium ulcerans Infection in a Low-Dose Murine Challenge Model

Kirstie M Mangas, Andrew H Buultjens, Jessica L Porter, Sarah L Baines, Estelle Marion, Laurent Marsollier, Nicholas J Tobias, Sacha J Pidot, Kylie M Quinn, David J Price, Katherine Kedzierska, Weiguang Zeng, David C Jackson, Brendon Y Chua, Timothy P Stineara

Journal article  |  2020  |  INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

The neglected tropical disease Buruli ulcer (BU) is an infection of subcutaneous tissue with Mycobacterium ulcerans There is no ef..

Population genomics and molecular epidemiology of mycobacterium ulcerans

K Vandelannoote, M Eddyani, A Buultjens, TP Stinear

Book Chapter  |  2019

Buruli ulcers in a Spanish aid worker after a stay in Peru

Jose Manuel Guerra Laso, Teresa Nebreda Mayoral, Juan Jose Palacios Gutierrez, Elia Samaniego Gonzalez, Barbara Rodriguez Martin, Leticia Barrio Rodriguez, Nieves Alonso Orcajo, Elena Magaz Garcia, Timothy Stinear, Andrew H Buultjens, Jose Antonio Perez Molina

Journal article  |  2019  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Buruli ulcer (BU) is a chronic and destructive infection of the skin and soft tissues caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. Recently, ..

Genomic approaches to stop the spread of bacterial infectious diseases

Andrew Buultjens

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2019

The advent of affordable whole genome sequencing has been a disruptive force that is changing the biological sciences, with public..

Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols

Sacha J Pidot, Wei Gao, Andrew H Buultjens, Ian R Monk, Romain Guerillot, Glen P Carter, Jean YH Lee, Margaret MC Lam, M Lindsay Grayson, Susan A Ballard, Andrew A Mahony, Elizabeth A Grabsch, Despina Kotsanas, Tony M Korman, Geoffrey W Coombs, J Owen Robinson, Anders Goncalves da Silva, Torsten Seemann, Benjamin P Howden, Paul DR Johnson, et al.

Journal article  |  2018  |  SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE

Alcohol-based disinfectants and particularly hand rubs are a key way to control hospital infections worldwide. Such disinfectants ..

Comparative Genomics Shows That Mycobacterium ulcerans Migration and Expansion Preceded the Rise of Buruli Ulcer in Southeastern Australia

Andrew H Buultjens, Koen Vandelannoote, Conor J Meehan, Miriam Eddyani, Bouke C de Jong, Janet AM Fyfe, Maria Globan, Nicholas J Tobias, Jessica L Porter, Takehiro Tomita, Ee Laine Tay, Torsten Seemann, Benjamin P Howden, Paul DR Johnson, Timothy P Stinear

Journal article  |  2018  |  APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Since 2000, cases of the neglected tropical disease Buruli ulcer, caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans, have increased ..

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796-rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone

Andrew A Mahony, Andrew H Buultjens, Susan A Ballard, Elizabeth A Grabsch, Shirley Xie, Torsten Seemann, Rhonda L Stuart, Despina Kotsanas, Allen Cheng, Helen Heffernan, Sally A Roberts, Geoffrey W Coombs, Narin Bak, John K Ferguson, Glen C Carter, Benjamin P Howden, Timothy P Stinear, Paul DR Johnson

Journal article  |  2018  |  ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND INFECTION CONTROL

BACKGROUND: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. New, presumably be..

A Supervised Statistical Learning Approach for Accurate Legionella pneumophila Source Attribution during Outbreaks

Andrew H Buultjens, Kyra YL Chua, Sarah L Baines, Jason Kwong, Wei Gao, Zoe Cutcher, Stuart Adcock, Susan Ballard, Mark B Schultz, Takehiro Tomita, Nela Subasinghe, Glen P Carter, Sacha J Pidot, Lucinda Franklin, Torsten Seemann, Anders Goncalves Da Silva, Benjamin P Howden, Timothy P Stinear

Journal article  |  2017  |  APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Public health agencies are increasingly relying on genomics during Legionnaires' disease investigations. However, the causative ba..