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David C. Coleman

David C. Coleman

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Microbiology
Ireland
2025

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Microbiology

D-Index
79
Citations
19213
World Ranking
1236
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

David C. Coleman is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable focus on Infectious Diseases, Clinical Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology. Additional subfields include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Molecular Medicine.

Their work covers several key topics related to bacterial infections and resistance mechanisms. These topics include:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Dental Research and COVID-19

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent authorship in selected venues. Their most common publication venues are:

  • Journal of Hospital Infection
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbial Genomics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David C. Coleman include:

  • Linezolid resistance in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis from hospitalized patients in Ireland: high prevalence of the MDR genes optrA and poxtA in isolates with diverse genetic backgrounds, 2020, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • The oral cavity revealed as a significant reservoir of Staphylococcus aureus in an acute hospital by extensive patient, healthcare worker and environmental sampling, 2020, Journal of Hospital Infection
  • Hospital outbreak of linezolid-resistant and vancomycin-resistant ST80 Enterococcus faecium harbouring an optrA-encoding conjugative plasmid investigated by whole-genome sequencing, 2020, Journal of Hospital Infection
  • Genomic analysis of 600 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium reveals a high prevalence of ST80 and spread of similar vanA regions via IS1216E and plasmid transfer in diverse genetic lineages in Ireland, 2021, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission among healthcare workers, patients and the environment in a large acute hospital under non-outbreak conditions investigated using whole-genome sequencing, 2021, Journal of Hospital Infection

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David C. Coleman include:

  • Gráinne I. Brennan
  • Megan R. Earls
  • Anna C. Shore
  • Brian O'Connell
  • Peter M. Kinnevey

Best Publications

  • A field guide to pandemic, epidemic and sporadic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Stefan Monecke;Geoffrey Coombs;Anna C. Shore;David C. Coleman

  • Candida dubliniensis sp. nov.: phenotypic and molecular characterization of a novel species associated with oral candidosis in HIV-infected individuals

    Derek J. Sullivan;Thea J. Westerneng;Ken A. Haynes;Désirée E. Bennett

  • Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) : guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements.

    T. Ito;K. Hiramatsu;D. Oliviera;H. de Lencastre

  • Detection of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec Type XI Carrying Highly Divergent mecA, mecI, mecR1, blaZ, and ccr Genes in Human Clinical Isolates of Clonal Complex 130 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Anna C. Shore;Emily C. Deasy;Peter Slickers;Grainne Brennan

  • Candida dubliniensis: Characteristics and Identification

    Derek Sullivan;David Coleman

  • Antifungal drug susceptibilities of oral Candida dubliniensis isolates from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and non-HIV-infected subjects and generation of stable fluconazole-resistant derivatives in vitro.

    G P Moran;D J Sullivan;M C Henman;C E McCreary

  • SIMPLE, INEXPENSIVE, RELIABLE METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATION OF CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS FROM CANDIDA ALBICANS

    Emmanuelle Pinjon;Derek Sullivan;Ira Salkin;Diarmuid Shanley

  • Comparison of the epidemiology, drug resistance mechanisms, and virulence of Candida dubliniensis and Candida albicans

    Derek J Sullivan;Gary P Moran;Emmanuelle Pinjon;Asmaa Al-Mosaid

  • Candidiasis : the emergence of a novel species, Candida dubliniensis

    David C. Coleman;Derek J. Sullivan;Désirée E. Bennett;Gary P. Moran

  • Comparative genomics of the fungal pathogens Candida dubliniensis and Candida albicans

    Andrew P. Jackson;John A. Gamble;Tim Yeomans;Gary P. Moran

  • Identification and expression of multidrug transporters responsible for fluconazole resistance in Candida dubliniensis.

    Gary P. Moran;Dominique Sanglard;Samantha M. Donnelly;Diarmuid B. Shanley

  • Seven novel variants of the staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Ireland.

    Anna Shore;Angela S. Rossney;Conor T. Keane;Mark C. Enright

  • Candida dubliniensis: phylogeny and putative virulence factors

    Gregor D. Gilfillan;Derek J. Sullivan;Ken Haynes;Tanya Parkinson

  • Widespread geographic distribution of oral Candida dubliniensis strains in human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals.

    Derek Sullivan;Ken Haynes;Jacques Bille;Patrick Boerlin

  • The Emergence and Importation of Diverse Genotypes of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Harboring the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Gene (pvl) Reveal that pvl Is a Poor Marker for Community-Acquired MRSA Strains in Ireland

    Angela S. Rossney;Anna C. Shore;Pamela M. Morgan;Margaret M. Fitzgibbon

  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophages mediating the simultaneous lysogenic conversion of beta-lysin, staphylokinase and enterotoxin A: molecular mechanism of triple conversion.

    David C. Coleman;Derek J. Sullivan;Ronnie J. Russell;John P. Arbuthnott

  • Importance of Candida species other than Candida albicans as opportunistic pathogens.

    D C Coleman;M G Rinaldi;K A Haynes;J H Rex

  • Guidelines for Reporting Novel mecA Gene Homologues

    Teruyo Ito;Keiichi Hiramatsu;Alexander Tomasz;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec: recent advances and new insights.

    Anna C. Shore;David C. Coleman

  • Phylogenetic analysis and rapid identification of Candida dubliniensis based on analysis of ACT1 intron and exon sequences.

    Samantha M. Donnelly;Derek J. Sullivan;Diarmuid B. Shanley;David C. Coleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek J. Sullivan
Derek J. Sullivan Trinity College Dublin
Hilary Humphreys
Hilary Humphreys Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Stefan Monecke
Stefan Monecke Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
Ralf Ehricht
Ralf Ehricht Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
Richard V. Goering
Richard V. Goering Creighton University
Geoffrey W. Coombs
Geoffrey W. Coombs Fiona Stanley Hospital
Henrik Westh
Henrik Westh University of Copenhagen
Timothy J. Foster
Timothy J. Foster Campden BRI (United Kingdom)
Hermínia de Lencastre
Hermínia de Lencastre Rockefeller University
Angela Kearns
Angela Kearns Public Health England

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