Professor Iain Gosbell

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Memberships
• Contact Details

Biography

Iain Gosbell was previously the Director of Microbiology & Infectious Disease at Sydney South West Pathology Service, Liverpool, and in October 2009 became the Foundation Professor of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine at the University of Western Sydney. He has researched the epidemiology of community MRSA in south western Sydney, then investigated the phenomenon of resistance to a pivotal drug, vancomycin, in strains of MRSA, and most recently had been involved in infection control particularly concerning issues with control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

• Epidemiology of community MRSA.
• Antibiotic Resistance.
• Infection Control.

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Grants / Current Projects

Health Research Foundation, Sydney South West, 2005-2006, Community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): changing features of an escalating epidemic.

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Awards and Recognition

MBBS, University of Sydney 1987
MD, University of New South Wales 2003
FRACP, Royal Australasian College of Physicians 1994
FRCPA, Royal College of Pathologist of Australasia 1995
FASM, Australian Society for Microbiology 2004
MASM, Australian Society for Microbiology 199

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Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Chang Y-S, van Hal SJ, Spencer PM, Gosbell IB, Collett PW. Comparison of adult patients hospitalised with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza during the “PROTECT” phase of the pandemic response. Med J Aust 2010;192:90-3.


Gubbay J, Gosbell IB, Barbagiannakos T, Vickery AM, Mercer JL, Watson M. Clinical features, epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, and exotoxin genes (including Panton-Valentine Leukocidin) of gentamicin-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (GS-MRSA) isolated at a paediatric teaching hospital in New South Wales, Australia. Pathology 2008;40:64-71.


Swaminathan A, Massasso D, Gotis-Graham I, Gosbell I. (2006) Fulminant methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus infection in a healthy adolescent, highlighting ‘Panton–Valentine leucocidin syndrome’. Int Med J 36: 744–747


Ng J, Gosbell IB, Kelly JA, Boyle MJ, Ferguson JK. (2006) Cure of multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii central nervous system infections with intraventricular or intrathecal colistin: case series and literature review. J Antimicrob Chem 58: 1078–1081.

Gosbell IB, Fernandes LA, Fernandes CJ. (2006) In vitro antibacterial activity of β-lactams and non-β-lactams against Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Sydney, Australia. Pathology 38(4): 343-348

Gosbell IB. (2006) Time-kill and disk synergy studies with non-beta-lactams against non-multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Pathology 38: 259-61.

Gosbell IB, Barbagiannakos T, Neville SA, Mercer JL, Vickery AM, O’Brien FG, Coombs GW, Malkowski MJ, Pearson JC. (2006) Non-multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Sydney, Australia: emergence of EMRSA-15, Oceania, Queensland and Western Australian MRSA strains. Pathology 38: 239-44.

Nimmo GR, Coombs GW, Pearson JC, O’Brien FG, Christiansen KJ, Turnidge JD, Gosbell IB, Collignon P, McLaws M-L, AGAR. (2006) MRSA in the Australian community: an evolving epidemic. Med J Aust 184: 384-8.

Donaldson A, Gosbell IB. (2006) African Strain of Community MRSA in a Tanzanian Refugee. Med J Aust 184: 420-1.


Donaldson A, Chan RC, Gosbell IB. (2006) Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bone and joint infections: development of rifampicin resistance. Med J Aust 184:196.

Gosbell IB. (2005) Diagnosis and management of catheter-related bloodstream infections due to Staphylococcus aureus. Int Med J 35: S45-S62.

Gosbell IB. (2005) Epidemiology, clinical features and management of infections due to community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (cMRSA). Int Med J 35: S120-S135.

Swaminathan A, Gosbell IB, Douglas M, Zwar N. (2005) Tunga penetrans infection. Med J Aust 183:51.

Darbar A, Harris IA, Gosbell IB. (2005) Necrotizing infection due to Bacillus cereus mimicking gas gangrene Following penetrating trauma. J Orthoped Trauma 19:353-5.

Ng J, Gosbell IB. (2005) Successful oral pristinamycin therapy for osteoarticular infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other Staphylococcus spp. J Antimicrob Chemother 55:1008-12

Collignon P, Nimmo GR, Gottlieb T, Gosbell IB. (2005) Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, Australia. Emerg Infect Dis 11;04:554-61.

Lee M, Gosbell IB, Rowland J. (2005) Propionibacterium acnes sacroiliitis: the pivotal role of biopsy. Int Med J, 35:200-1.

Martin BT, Palasanthiran P, Gosbell IB, Barbagiannakos T, Best EJ, Henry RL. (2005) Severe childhood pneumonitis caused by the Queensland strain of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Med J Aust 182:249.

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Memberships

Member of the Australian Society for Antimicrobials
Member of the American Society for Microbiology
Member of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases

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