Thomas Rogers
Chair
Clinical Microbiology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
My main research interest is in invasive fungal infections, including molecular diagnostics, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, and antifungal therapies. Also, research into nosocomial infections including Clostridium difficile colitis. Other current research includes study of Escherichia coli bacteraemia focusing on pathogenic mechanisms, epidemiology and antibiotic resistance.
Research Interest
Antibiotics; Bacteriology and bacterial pathogenesis; Fungal Diseases; Infectious Diseases/Agents; Mycology and fungal pathogenesis; Tuberculosis
Publications
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Mac Aogáin M, Fennelly N, Walsh A, Lynagh Y, Bekaert M, Lawlor B, Walsh P , Kelly B, Rogers TR, Crowley B , Fourteen Draft Genome Sequences for the First Reported Cases of Azithromycin-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Ireland., Genome Announcements, 5, (23), 2017
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Lynch M, Walsh TA, Marszalowska I, Webb AE, MacAogain M, Rogers TR, Windle H, Kelleher D, O'Connell MJ, Loscher CE., Surface layer proteins from virulent Clostridium difficile ribotypes exhibit signatures of positive selection with consequences for innate immune response., BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17, (1), 2017, p90 - 90
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Mok S, Rogers TR, Fitzgibbon M., Evaluation of GenoType NTM-DR Assay for Identification of Mycobacterium chimaera., Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 55, (6), 2017, p1821 - 1826
