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Helen Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many MRSA cases were reported by each acute trust in each year since 1997. [129687]
| Lead researcher | Project title | Project end date |
| Professor Michael R.W. Brown. Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. University of Bath | Dormancy, resistance to antimicrobials and environmental survival. | March 2006 |
| Dr. Mark H. Wilcox, Department of Microbiology. Leeds University | What is the size and nature of the current need for single room isolation in hospital and how does success or failure to isolate patients affect the control of MRSA? | May 2005 |
| Dr. Alasdair MacGowan, Department of Medical Microbiology, Southmead Hospital | The development and evaluation of a population-based surveillance programme for antimicrobial resistance. | June 2006 |
| Dr. Lucinda M.C. Hall. Department of Microbiology, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry | Mechanisms involved in the maintenance of antibiotic resistance. | September 2006 |
| Professor Robert J. Pratt, Richard Wells Research Centre, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University | Collaborative research to reduce the incidence of hospital ward-acquired MRSA colonisation/infection using statistical process control (SPC) feedback and structured diagnosis. | February 2006 |
| Dr. Stephanie Dancer, Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health | Environmental organisms from hospital wards with differing antibiotic exposure. | December 2003 |
| Professor Ian Chopra, Department of Microbiology, University of Leeds | Emergence of resistance to linezolid in Staphylococcus aureus and evaluation of combination therapies to suppress resistance. | April 2006 |
| Dr. Jennifer A. Roberts, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Faster testing for MRSA: models to estimate the cost-effectiveness of faster testing of cases admitted for hip and knee replacement. | November 2004 |
| Dr. Cliodna A.M. McNulty, PHLS Primary Care Unit. Gloucester Royal Hospital | Household face-to-face survey of home held antibiotics and awareness of good antibiotic use. | September 2004 |
| Dr. David M. Livermore, ARMRL. Central Public Health Laboratory | Does hypermutability underlie the rapid clinical emergence of resistant mutant types that are vanishingly rare in vitro? | May 2006 |
| Dr. Andrew C. Hayward, UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Antimicrobial resistance and prescribing (AmRAP): sentinel surveillance using spotter practices—a feasibility study. | March 2005 |
| Dr. Andrew C. Hayward, UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Routine national surveillance of antibiotic prescribing for common infections using the GPRD and PACT data. | June 2005 |
| Dr. Anthony J. Howard, Department of Medical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory. University Hospital of Wales | Development of cost-effective surveillance for hospital antibiotic resistance and factors that contribute to its occurrence. | March 2006 |