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Overview

John D. Turnidge is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research contributions encompass a broad range of topics centered on antibiotic resistance, pharmacokinetics, and bacterial susceptibility testing.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, the subfields of focus are:

  • Molecular Medicine
  • Pharmacology
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Infectious Diseases

The main topics covered in their work involve:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Gunnar Kahlmeter
  • Christian G. Giske
  • Rafael Cantón
  • Sylvia A. Sapula
  • Henrietta Venter

Key publication venues for this scientist reflect a focus on infectious diseases and microbiology:

  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by this scientist are:

  • Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Position Statements on Polymyxin B and Colistin Clinical Breakpoints, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • The Effect of Renal Replacement Therapy and Antibiotic Dose on Antibiotic Concentrations in Critically Ill Patients: Data From the Multinational Sampling Antibiotics in Renal Replacement Therapy Study, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Efflux Pump-Driven Antibiotic and Biocide Cross-Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Different Ecological Niches: A Case Study in the Development of Multidrug Resistance in Environmental Hotspots, 2020, Microorganisms
  • The pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic paradigm for antimicrobial drugs in veterinary medicine: Recent advances and critical appraisal, 2020, Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • How to: ECOFFs-the why, the how, and the don'ts of EUCAST epidemiological cutoff values, 2022, Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Best Publications

  • Colistin: the re-emerging antibiotic for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections

    Jian Li;Roger Leigh Nation;John D Turnidge;Robert W Milne

  • Dissemination of New Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones in the Community

    Keiko Okuma;Kozue Iwakawa;John D. Turnidge;Warren B. Grubb

  • Correlation of Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetic Parameters with Therapeutic Efficacy in an Animal Model

    B. Vogelman;S. Gudmundsson;J. Leggett;J. Turnidge

  • The Pharmacodynamics of β-Lactams

    J. D. Turnidge

  • Twenty Years of the SENTRY Antifungal Surveillance Program: Results for Candida Species From 1997-2016.

    Michael A Pfaller;Daniel J Diekema;John D Turnidge;Mariana Castanheira

  • Evaluation of colistin as an agent against multi-resistant Gram-negative bacteria

    Jian Li;Roger Leigh Nation;Robert L Milne;John D Turnidge

  • Setting and Revising Antibacterial Susceptibility Breakpoints

    John Turnidge;David L. Paterson;David L. Paterson;David L. Paterson

  • Susceptibility Test Methods: Dilution and Disk Diffusion Methods*

    James H. Jorgensen;John D. Turnidge

  • Statistical characterisation of bacterial wild-type MIC value distributions and the determination of epidemiological cut-off values

    J. Turnidge;G. Kahlmeter;G. Kronvall

  • Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates: Occurrence Rates, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns, and Molecular Typing in the Global SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, 1997–1999

    A. C. Gales;R. N. Jones;J. Turnidge;R. Rennie

  • Framework for optimisation of the clinical use of colistin and polymyxin B : the Prato polymyxin consensus

    Roger Leigh Nation;Jian Li;Otto Cars;William Couet

  • Antimicrobial Use Guidelines for Treatment of Urinary Tract Disease in Dogs and Cats: Antimicrobial Guidelines Working Group of the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases

    J. Scott Weese;Joseph M. Blondeau;Dawn Boothe;Edward B. Breitschwerdt

  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of fluoroquinolones.

    John Turnidge

  • In Vivo Postantibiotic Effect in a Thigh Infection in Neutropenic Mice

    B. Vogelman;S. Gudmundsson;J. Turnidge;J. Leggett

  • Antimicrobial use Guidelines for Treatment of Respiratory Tract Disease in Dogs and Cats: Antimicrobial Guidelines Working Group of the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases.

    M. R. Lappin;J. Blondeau;D. Boothe;E. B. Breitschwerdt

  • MIC-based dose adjustment: facts and fables.

    Johan W Mouton;Anouk E Muller;Rafael Canton;Christian G Giske

  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy of canine superficial bacterial folliculitis (Antimicrobial Guidelines Working Group of the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases).

    Andrew Hillier;David H. Lloyd;J. Scott Weese;Joseph M. Blondeau

  • In vitro pharmacodynamic properties of colistin and colistin methanesulfonate against Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis.

    Jian Li;John D Turnidge;Robert Milne;Roger Leigh Nation

  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a major cause of mortality in Australia and New Zealand

    John D Turnidge;Despina Kotsanas;Wendy Munckhof;Sally Roberts

  • Emergence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Australia: Phenotypic and Genotypic Characteristics of Isolates

    Jan M. Bell;James C. Paton;John Turnidge

  • Antibiotic Choice May Not Explain Poorer Outcomes in Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia and High Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations

    Natasha E. Holmes;John D. Turnidge;John D. Turnidge;Wendy J. Munckhof;Wendy J. Munckhof;James O. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan M. Bell
Jan M. Bell University of Adelaide
Ronald N. Jones
Ronald N. Jones JMI Laboratories
Roger L. Nation
Roger L. Nation Monash University
Geoffrey W. Coombs
Geoffrey W. Coombs Fiona Stanley Hospital
Teresa Peláez
Teresa Peláez Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Peter Collignon
Peter Collignon Australian National University
Paul D R Johnson
Paul D R Johnson Austin Health
Christian G. Giske
Christian G. Giske Karolinska University Hospital
Benjamin P. Howden
Benjamin P. Howden University of Melbourne
Gunnar Kahlmeter
Gunnar Kahlmeter Uppsala University

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