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  1. Viromic Analysis of Wastewater Input to a River Catchment Reveals a Diverse Assemblage of RNA Viruses

    Article • mSystems, May 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  2. Nano-structured rhodium doped SrTiO 3 –Visible light activated photocatalyst for water decontamination

    Article • Applied Catalysis B Environment and Energy, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  3. Shigatoxin encoding Bacteriophage ϕ24B modulates bacterial metabolism to raise antimicrobial tolerance

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2017, Nature

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  4. Characterising the Canine Oral Microbiome by Direct Sequencing of Reverse-Transcribed rRNA Molecules

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2016, PLOS

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  5. Transcriptomic Analysis of Shiga-Toxigenic Bacteriophage Carriage Reveals a Profound Regulatory Effect on Acid Resistance in Escherichia coli

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  6. Short communication: Characterization of Shiga toxin 2-carrying bacteriophages induced from Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from Italian dairy products

    Article • Journal of Dairy Science, December 2012, American Dairy Science Association

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison, Claudia Picozzi

  7. Development and application of a method for the purification of free shigatoxigenic bacteriophage from environmental samples

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Ben Libberton, Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  8. Importance of Micromonospora spp. as Colonizers of Cellulose in Freshwater Lakes as Demonstrated by Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase PCR of 16S rRNA

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Alexandre Barretto de Menezes, Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  9. The microbial ecology of anaerobic cellulose degradation in municipal waste landfill sites: evidence of a role for fibrobacters

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  10. Comparative genomics of Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophages

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Paul CM Fogg, Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  11. Identification of genes expressed in cultures of E. coli lysogens carrying the Shiga toxin-encoding prophage Φ24B

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  12. Cumulative effect of prophage burden on Shiga toxin production in Escherichia coli

    Article • Microbiology, November 2011, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison, Dr Paul CM Fogg

  13. Characterization of the relationship between integrase, excisionase and antirepressor activities associated with a superinfecting Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophage

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison, Dr Paul CM Fogg

  14. 454-Pyrosequencing: A Molecular Battiscope for Freshwater Viral Ecology

    Article • Genes, July 2010, MDPI AG

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  15. Bacteriophage Lambda: a Paradigm Revisited

    Article • Journal of Virology, April 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison, Dr Paul CM Fogg

  16. Development and validation of a qPCR-based method for quantifying Shiga toxin-encoding and other lambdoid bacteriophages

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  17. High-Throughput Method for Rapid Induction of Prophages from Lysogens and Its Application in the Study of Shiga Toxin-Encoding Escherichia coli Strains

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  18. Composition of the Landfill Microbial Community as Determined by Application of Domain- and Group-Specific 16S and 18S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2009, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  19. Molecular Biological Detection and Quantification of Novel Fibrobacter Populations in Freshwater Lakes

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2009, ASM Journals

    Dr Alexandre Barretto de Menezes, Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  20. Cellulose Degradation by Micromonosporas Recovered from Freshwater Lakes and Classification of These Actinomycetes by DNA Gyrase B Gene Sequencing

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Alexandre Barretto de Menezes, Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  21. Detection of novel Fibrobacter populations in landfill sites and determination of their relative abundance via quantitative PCR

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, May 2008, Wiley

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  22. Identification of multiple integration sites for Stx-phage  24B in the Escherichia coli genome, description of a novel integrase and evidence for a functional anti-repressor

    Article • Microbiology, December 2007, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  23. Multilocus Characterization Scheme for Shiga Toxin-Encoding Bacteriophages

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  24. Short-Tailed Stx Phages Exploit the Conserved YaeT Protein To Disseminate Shiga Toxin Genes among Enterobacteria

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  25. Stx-phages: drivers and mediators of the evolution of STEC and STEC-like pathogens

    Article • Future Microbiology, April 2007, Future Medicine

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  26. Effects of a nanoparticulate silica substrate on cell attachment of Candida albicans

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, March 2007, Wiley

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  27. Occurrence of hlyA and sheA Genes in Extraintestinal Escherichia coli Strains

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2005, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  28. Survival of a Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophage in a compost model

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, April 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  29. Putative anti-muscarinic antibodies cannot be detected in patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome using conventional immunological approaches

    Article • Rheumatology, July 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  30. Immunity Profiles of Wild-Type and Recombinant Shiga-Like Toxin-Encoding Bacteriophages and Characterization of Novel Double Lysogens

    Article • Infection and Immunity, June 2003, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  31. Lytic and Lysogenic Infection of DiverseEscherichia coli and Shigella Strains with a Verocytotoxigenic Bacteriophage

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2001, ASM Journals

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  32. Phage-mediated transfer of virulence genes

    Article • Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, January 2001, Wiley

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  33. Characterization ofTPIgene expression in isogeneic wild-type andgcr1-deletion mutant strains ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison