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• Chemical Pathology

• Diagnostic Genetics
• Microbiology
• Virology and Immunology

Chemical Pathology

Utilization of a detection level of 25ng/mL for cannabinoids in urine using CEDIA THCPLUS immunoassay: application of this cut-off to urines of school children.

Forensic Science International 2010; 198(1-3): 28-30.

Authors: Madhavaram H, Couch RAF

Measurement of Serum Lamotrigine by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Using a Phenyltriazine as Internal Standard.

Drug Testing and Analysis, February 2011.

Authors: Madhavaram H, Woollard G and Couch R

Diagnostic Genetics

Distal 5q deletion with associated parietal foramina. 

Clinical Dysmorphology 2010;19: 43-47.

Authors: Aftimos S, Asquith P, Ashton F, Vasilevski O and Love D.

The SCN5A gene in Brugada syndrome: mutations, variants, missense and nonsense. What’s a clinician to do?

Heart Rhythm 2010;7(1):50-51.

Authors: Skinner JR and Love DR.

Posthumous diagnosis of Long QT syndrome from neonatal screening cards. 

Heart Rhythm 2010;7(4):481-486.

Authors: Gladding P, Evans C-A, Crawford J, Vaughan A, Webster D, Neas K, Love DR, Rees M, Shelling AN and Skinner JR.

13q33.2 deletion: a rare cause of ambiguous genitalia in a male newborn with growth restriction.

Acta Paediatrica 2010;99(5):784-786.

Authors: Andresen JH, Aftimos S, Doherty E, Love DR and Battin M.

Identification and expression analysis of kcnh2 genes in the zebrafish.

Biochem Biophys Res Comm 2010;396(4):817-824.

Authors: Leong I, Skinner JR, Shelling AN and Love DR.

The clinical utility of molecular diagnostic testing for Primary Immune Deficiency Disorders: a case based review.

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010;6(1):12.

Authors: Ameratunga R, Woon S-T, Neas K and Love DR.

Chromosomal Microarray Analysis (CMA): a new tool in the diagnostic genetic armory.

New Zealand Medical Journal 2010;123(1318):41-50.

Authors: Marquis-Nicholson R, Aftimos S, Hayes I, George A and Love DR.  

Zebrafish as a model for Long QT syndrome: the evidence, and the means of manipulating zebrafish gene expression.

Acta Physiologica 2010;199(3):257-276.

Authors:Leong I, Skinner JR, Shelling AN and Love DR.

Citrullinemia type 1: molecular screening of the ASS1 gene by exonic sequencing and targeted mutation analysis.

Genetics and Mol Res 2010;9(3):1483-1489.

Authors: Marquis-Nicholson R, Glamuzina E, Prosser D, Wilson C and Love DR.

Application of Nutrigenomics in Gastrointestinal Health.

In:Bagchi D, Bagchi M and Lau FC (Eds). Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics in Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Blackwell Publishing, USA, pp83-94.

Authors: Ferguson LR, Baker PI and Love DR.

Prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 3 mosaicism in a fetus with severe IUGR.

Prenat Diagn 2010;30(8):803-805.

Authors:Sheath KL, Asquith PM, Zhang L and Aftimos S. 

Applications of Quality and Risk Management tools in the New Zealand healthcare system.

Qualcon 2010

Authors: Grigg N, Jayamaha D, Jayamaha N, Campbell-Allen N and George A.

Molecular characterisation of der(Y)t(Xp;Yp) with Xp functional disomy and sex reversal.

Genetics and Mol Res 2010;9(3):1815-1823.

Authors: Ashton F, O’Connor R, Love JM, Doherty E, Aftimos S, George A and Love DR. 

Microbiology

Comparative epidemiology of CTX-M-14 and CTX-M-15 producing Escherichia coli: Association with distinct demographic groups in the community in New Zealand.

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012 Jan 23. [Epub ahead of print]

Authors: Freeman JT, Williamson DA, Heffernan H, Smith M, Bower JE, Roberts SA.

Clinical failures associated with rpoB mutations in phenotypically occult multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2012 Feb;16(2):216-20.

Authors: Williamson DA, Roberts SA, Bower JE, Vaughan R, Newton S, Lowe O, Lewis CA, Freeman JT.

A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis due to Burkholderia cepacia complex.

N Z Med J. 2011 Aug 12;124(1340):84-6.

Authors: Williamson DA, McBride SJ.

Intercontinental transfer of OXA-181-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae into New Zealand.

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2011 Dec;66(12):2888-90. Epub 2011 Sep 19. [No abstract available.]

Authors: Williamson DA, Heffernan H, Sidjabat H, Roberts SA, Paterson DL, Smith M, Freeman JT.

High rates of susceptibility to ceftazidime among globally prevalent CTX-M-producing Escherichia coli: potential clinical implications of the revised CLSI interpretive criteria.

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Sep 6. [Epub ahead of print]

Authors: Williamson DA, Roberts SA, Smith M, Heffernan H, Tiong A, Pope C, Freeman JT.

Molecular epidemiology and susceptibility profiles of Clostridium difficile in New Zealand, 2009 (PDF 1.1 MB)

Poster presentation at the 10th Biennial Congress of the Anaerobe Society of the Americas, Philadelphia, USA, in July 2010. Also presented at the New Zealand Institute of Medical Laboratory Science Conference, Bay of Islands, in August 2010.

Authors: Al Anbuky N, Paviour S, Swager T, Camp T, Pope C, Heffernan H, Roberts SA.

Virology and Immunology

Customised molecular diagnosis of primary immune deficiency disorders in New Zealand: an efficient strategy for a small developed country. (PDF 143 KB)

The New Zealand Medical Journal 9 October 2009

Authors: Rohan Ameratunga and See-Tarn Woon