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Overview

Mark H. Wilcox is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a substantial portion of work concentrated in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. The scientist's investigations cover a range of topics related to infectious diseases and gastrointestinal health.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies

Mark H. Wilcox has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in scientific journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Inês B. Moura (28 publications)
  • Anthony M. Buckley (18 publications)
  • Kerrie Davies (17 publications)
  • Duncan Ewin (16 publications)
  • William Spittal (15 publications)

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Mark H. Wilcox are:

  • Clinical Practice Guideline by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): 2021 Focused Update Guidelines on Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2021 update on the treatment guidance document for Clostridioides difficile infection in adults, 2021, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in feces and urine and its potential role in person-to-person transmission and the environment-based spread of COVID-19, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Clinical Practice Guideline by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): 2021 Focused Update Guidelines on Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Healthcare-associated COVID-19 in England: A national data linkage study, 2021, Journal of Infection

Best Publications

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

    Stuart H. Cohen;Dale N. Gerding;Stuart Johnson;Ciaran P. Kelly

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

    L Clifford McDonald;Dale N Gerding;Stuart Johnson;Stuart Johnson;Johan S Bakken

  • Clostridium difficile infection: new developments in epidemiology and pathogenesis

    Maja Rupnik;Mark H. Wilcox;Dale N. Gerding

  • epic3: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England

    Heather Loveday;Jennie Wilson;Robert Pratt;Mana Golsorkhi

  • Clostridium difficile infection in Europe: a hospital-based survey

    Martijn P Bauer;Daan W Notermans;Birgit H B van Benthem;Jon S Brazier

  • The Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infections

    J. Freeman;M. P. Bauer;Simon D. Baines;J. Corver

  • Clostridium difficile infection.

    Wiep Klaas Smits;Dena Lyras;D. Borden Lacy;Mark H. Wilcox

  • Bezlotoxumab for Prevention of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

    Mark H. Wilcox;Dale N. Gerding;Ian R. Poxton;Ciaran Kelly

  • Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile.

    Miao He;Fabio Miyajima;Paul Roberts;Louise Ellison

  • Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing

    D W Eyre;M L Cule;D J Wilson;D Griffiths

  • An adjustable fetal weight standard

    J. Gardosi;M. Mongelli;M. Wilcox;A. Chang

  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: update of the diagnostic guidance document for Clostridium difficile infection.

    M.J.T. Crobach;T. Planche;C. Eckert;F. Barbut

  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID): Data review and recommendations for diagnosing Clostridium difficile-infection (CDI)

    M.J.T. Crobach;O.M. Dekkers;M.H. Wilcox;E.J. Kuijper

  • Clinical Practice Guideline by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): 2021 Focused Update Guidelines on Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults.

    Stuart Johnson;Stuart Johnson;Valéry Lavergne;Valéry Lavergne;Andrew M Skinner;Andrew M Skinner;Anne J Gonzales-Luna

  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2021 update on the treatment guidance document for Clostridioides difficile infection in adults.

    J. van Prehn;E. Reigadas;E.H. Vogelzang;E. Bouza

  • A case–control study of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection

    M. H. Wilcox;L. Mooney;R. Bendall;C. D. Settle

  • Once-weekly dalbavancin versus daily conventional therapy for skin infection.

    Helen W Boucher;Mark Wilcox;George H Talbot;Sailaja Puttagunta

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing of Clostridium difficile

    David Griffiths;David Griffiths;Warren Fawley;Melina Kachrimanidou;Melina Kachrimanidou;Rory Bowden

  • Differences in outcome according to Clostridium difficile testing method: a prospective multicentre diagnostic validation study of C difficile infection

    Timothy D Planche;Kerrie A Davies;Pietro G Coen;John M Finney

  • Comparison of Nine Commercially Available Clostridium difficile Toxin Detection Assays, a Real-Time PCR Assay for C. difficile tcdB, and a Glutamate Dehydrogenase Detection Assay to Cytotoxin Testing and Cytotoxigenic Culture Methods

    Kerrie Eastwood;Patrick Else;André Charlett;Mark Wilcox

  • The epic Project: Developing National Evidence-based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare associated Infections

    RJ Pratt;C Pellowe;HP Loveday;N Robinson

  • Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing.

    Caroline Allix-Béguec;Irena Arandjelovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Warren N. Fawley
Warren N. Fawley Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Tim E. A. Peto
Tim E. A. Peto University of Oxford
David W. Eyre
David W. Eyre University of Oxford
Kate E. Dingle
Kate E. Dingle University of Oxford
Ed J. Kuijper
Ed J. Kuijper Leiden University Medical Center
A. Sarah Walker
A. Sarah Walker University of Oxford
William L. Irving
William L. Irving University of Nottingham
Guy E. Thwaites
Guy E. Thwaites University of Oxford
Dale N. Gerding
Dale N. Gerding Veterans Health Administration

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