Doctor Sebastiaan Van Hal

Journal Articles

• Van Hal, S., Jensen, S., Vaska, V., Espedido, B., Paterson, D. and Gosbell, I. (2012), 'Predictors of Mortality in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.', Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 25.
• Van Hal, S. (2012), 'The clinical significance of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration in Staphylococcus aureus infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis.', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17.
• Van Hal, S., Jensen, S., Vaska, V., Espedido, B., Paterson, D. and Gosbell, I. (2012), 'Predictors of mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia', Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 25.
• Van Hal, S., Lodise, T. and Paterson, D. (2012), 'The clinical significance of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration in Staphylococcus aureus infections : a systematic review and meta-analysis', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17.
• Espedido, B., Espedido, B., Jensen, S., Jensen, S., Steen, J., Barbagiannakos, T., Mercer, J., Paterson, D., Grimmond, S., Cooper, M., Gosbell, I., Gosbell, I. and Van Hal, S. (2012), 'Carriage of an ACME II variant may have contributed to methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 239-like strain replacement in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia', Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 4.
• Van Hal, S. (2012), 'Impact of ethnicity and socio-economic status on Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia incidence and mortality : a heavy burden in Indigenous Australians', BMC Infectious Diseases, .
• Van Hal, S., Wehrhahn, M., Barbagiannoakos, T., Mercer, J., Chen, D., Paterson, D. and Gosbell, I. (2011), 'Performance of various testing methodologies for detection of heteroresistant vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in bloodstream isolates', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 6.
• Neville, S., LeCordier, A., Ziochos, H., Chater, M., Gosbell, I., Maley, M. and Van Hal, S. (2011), 'Utility of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry following introduction for routine laboratory bacterial identification', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 5.
• Van Hal, S., Jones, M., Gosbell, I. and Paterson, D. (2011), 'Vancomycin Heteroresistance is Associated with Reduced Mortality in ST239 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Blood Stream Infections', PLoS ONE, .
• Van Hal, S., Van Hal, S., Barbagiannakos, T., Jones, M., Wehrhahn, M., Mercer, J., Chen, D., Paterson, D. and Gosbell, I. (2011), 'Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy', Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus vancomycin susceptibility testing: methodology correlations, temporal trends and clonal patterns, 4.
• Van Hal, S., Jones, M., Paterson, D. and Gosbell, I. (2011), 'Doubtful Model Utility in Predicting High Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection Episodes', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2.
• van, H., Van Hal, S., Barbagiannakos, T., Jones, M., Wehrhahn, M., Mercer, J., Chen, D., Paterson, D., Gosbell, I. and Gosbell, I. (2011), 'Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus vancomycin susceptibility testing: Methodology correlations, temporal trends and clonal patterns', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 4.
• Van Hal, S. and Paterson, D. (2011), 'New Gram-positive antibiotics: better than vancomycin?', Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 6.
• Van Hal, S. (2011), 'Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus vancomycin susceptibility testing: methodology correlations, temporal trends and clonal patterns.', Journal of Antimicrobial Therapy, 4.
• Chang, Y., Van Hal, S., Spencer, P., Gosbell, I. and Collett, P. (2010), 'Comparison of adult patients hospitalised with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza during the "PROTECT" phase of the pandemic response.', Medical Journal of Australia, 4.
• Jardine, A., Conaty, S., Cretikos, M., Su, W., Gosbell, I. and Van Hal, S. (2010), 'Influenza A testing and detection in patients admitted through emergency departments in Sydney during winter 2009: Implications for rational testing', Medical Journal of Australia, 5.
• Van Hal, S., Wiklendt, A., Espedido, B., Ginn, A. and Iredell, J. (2009), 'Immediate Appearance of Plasmid-Mediated Resistance to Multiple Antibiotics upon Antibiotic Selection: an Argument for Systematic Resistance Epidemiology', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 3.