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8969
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Overview

Georgina L. Hold is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple specialized subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, epidemiology, surgery, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's work predominantly focuses on topics related to gut microbiota and health, with additional emphasis on inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, and research concerning Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens. Further areas of study include Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, and investigations into diet and metabolism.

Georgina L. Hold has published research in various academic venues. Frequent publication locations include:

  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Gastroenterology
  • UNC Libraries
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Recent papers attributable to or involving Georgina L. Hold comprise:

  • Systematic review: gastric microbiota in health and disease (2020), published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • A standardised model for stool banking for faecal microbiota transplantation: a consensus report from a multidisciplinary UEG working group (2020), published in United European Gastroenterology Journal
  • Review article: the future of microbiome-based therapeutics (2022), published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • The role of mucins in gastrointestinal barrier function during health and disease (2022), published in The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Gut Microbiota in Children: A Systematic Review (2020), published in Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Georgina L. Hold include:

  • Sabrina Koentgen
  • Susan J. Connor
  • Thisun Jayawardana
  • Robert D. Little
  • Simon Ghaly

Best Publications

  • The gut microbiota, bacterial metabolites and colorectal cancer

    Petra Louis;Georgina L. Hold;Harry J. Flint

  • The gut microbiota and host health: a new clinical frontier

    Julian Roberto Marchesi;David H. Adams;Francesca Fava;Gerben D. A. Hermes

  • Fusobacterium nucleatum Potentiates Intestinal Tumorigenesis and Modulates the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment

    Aleksandar D. Kostic;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Eunyoung Chun;Lauren Robertson;Jonathan N. Glickman

  • The microbiology of butyrate formation in the human colon.

    Susan E Pryde;Sylvia H Duncan;Georgina L Hold;Colin S Stewart

  • Growth requirements and fermentation products of Fusobacterium prausnitzii, and a proposal to reclassify it as Faecalibacterium prausnitzii gen. nov., comb. nov.

    Sylvia H Duncan;Georgina L Hold;Hermie J M Harmsen;Colin S Stewart

  • IBD-what role do Proteobacteria play?

    Indrani Mukhopadhya;Richard Hansen;Emad M. El-Omar;Georgina L. Hold

  • Assessment of microbial diversity in human colonic samples by 16S rDNA sequence analysis

    Georgina L. Hold;Susan E. Pryde;Valerie J. Russell;Elizabeth Furrie

  • Inflammation and Cancer II. Role of chronic inflammation and cytokine gene polymorphisms in the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal malignancy

    Mairi Macarthur;Georgina L. Hold;Emad M. El-Omar

  • Role of the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis: What have we learnt in the past 10 years?

    Georgina L Hold;Megan Smith;Charlie Grange;Euan Robert Watt

  • Roseburia intestinalis sp. nov., a novel saccharolytic, butyrate-producing bacterium from human faeces

    Sylvia H Duncan;Georgina L Hold;Adela Barcenilla;Colin S Stewart

  • Oligonucleotide Probes That Detect Quantitatively Significant Groups of Butyrate-Producing Bacteria in Human Feces

    Georgina L. Hold;Andreas Schwiertz;Rustam I. Aminov;Michael Blaut

  • Microbiota of De-Novo Pediatric IBD: Increased Faecalibacterium Prausnitzii and Reduced Bacterial Diversity in Crohn's But Not in Ulcerative Colitis

    Richard Hansen;Richard K Russell;Caroline Reiff;Petra Louis

  • Cellular and molecular aspects of gastric cancer.

    Malcolm G. Smith;Georgina Louise Hold;Eiichi Tahara;Emad Munir El-Omar

  • A Functional Polymorphism of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Gene Increases Risk of Gastric Carcinoma and Its Precursors

    Georgina Louise Hold;Charles S. Rabkin;Wong-Ho Chow;Malcolm Gavin Smith

  • The Impact of Different DNA Extraction Kits and Laboratories upon the Assessment of Human Gut Microbiota Composition by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

    Nicholas A. Kennedy;Alan W. Walker;Susan H. Berry;Sylvia H. Duncan

  • Polymorphisms in Toll-like receptor genes and risk of cancer

    E M El-Omar;M T Ng;G L Hold

  • Vacuolating Cytotoxin and Variants in Atg16L1 That Disrupt Autophagy Promote Helicobacter pylori Infection in Humans

    Deepa Raju;Seamus Hussey;Michelle Ang;Mauricio R. Terebiznik

  • Anaerostipes caccae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new saccharolytic, acetate-utilising, butyrate-producing bacterium from human faeces.

    Andreas Schwiertz;Georgina L. Hold;Sylvia H. Duncan;Bärbel Gruhl

  • Characterisation of bacterial communities associated with toxic and non-toxic dinoflagellates: Alexandrium spp. and Scrippsiella trochoidea

    Georgina L. Hold;Elizabeth A. Smith;Michael S. Rappé;Elizabeth W. Maas

  • Review article: the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease-avenues for microbial management.

    J McIlroy;G Ianiro;I Mukhopadhya;R Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Emad M. El-Omar
Emad M. El-Omar University of New South Wales
Graeme I. Murray
Graeme I. Murray University of Aberdeen
Harry J. Flint
Harry J. Flint University of Aberdeen
Charles S. Rabkin
Charles S. Rabkin National Institutes of Health
Thomas L. Vaughan
Thomas L. Vaughan University of Washington
Jack Satsangi
Jack Satsangi University of Oxford
Sylvia H. Duncan
Sylvia H. Duncan University of Aberdeen
Petra Louis
Petra Louis University of Aberdeen
Ailsa Hart
Ailsa Hart Imperial College London
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

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