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  1. Contaminated dicloxacillin capsules as the source of an NDM-5/OXA-48-producing Enterobacter hormaechei ST79 outbreak, Denmark and Iceland, 2022 and 2023

    Article • Eurosurveillance, March 2023, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  2. Adults with symptoms of pneumonia: a prospective comparison of patients with and without infiltrates on chest radiography

    Article • Clinical Microbiology and Infection, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  3. Native joint infections in Iceland 2003–2017: an increase in postarthroscopic infections

    Article • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, September 2021, BMJ

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  4. Infections and outcomes after cardiac surgery—The impact of outbreaks traced to transesophageal echocardiography probes

    Article • Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  5. Performance of the EUCAST disc diffusion method and two MIC methods in detection of Enterobacteriaceae with reduced susceptibility to meropenem: the NordicAST CPE study

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, July 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  6. First detection of a carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Iceland

    Article • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  7. Molecular diagnosis of Legionella infections – Clinical utility of front-line screening as part of a pneumonia diagnostic algorithm

    Article • Journal of Infection, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  8. Actinomyces Species Isolated from Breast Infections

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  9. Sýklalyfjaónæmi – síðustu vígin falla

    Article • Læknablaðið, July 2015, Laeknabladid/The Icelandic Medical Journal

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  10. A Granulomatous Chronic Disease

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  11. Cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases caused by Legionella longbeachae serogroup 1, Scotland, August to September 2013

    Article • Eurosurveillance, December 2013, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  12. The effect of a large Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Southwest Edinburgh on acute and critical care services

    Article • QJM, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  13. Positive Borrelia burgdorferi serology secondary to intravenous immunoglobulin therapy

    Article • Journal of Infection, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  14. An unusual abscess

    Article • Journal of Infection, December 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  15. Cutaneous burkholderia pseudomallei in a patient returning from bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Infection, December 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  16. A review of vancomycin therapeutic drug monitoring recommendations in Scotland

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, March 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  17. Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Staphylococcus aureus and Foreign Travel

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason

  18. Subclinical intestinal inflammation and sacroiliac changes in relatives of patients with ankylosing spondylitis

    Article • Gastroenterology, December 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Kristjan O Helgason