Professor David Eyre
Research groups
- AI-based smart hospitals: developing, deploying and evaluating tools to help hospitals manage demand
- Dynamic Time-to-Event Analysis for Infection Treatment in Hospitals
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit
- Machine learning for treating infections in hospital
- Pathogen population genomics methods and applications
- Using machine learning and statistical prediction models to improve empirical antibiotic prescribing
David Eyre
Professor
- Robertson Fellow
- Infectious Diseases Clinician
My research interests include the use of whole-genome sequencing as a tool for understanding the epidemiology and transmission of bacterial and fungal pathogens. My previous work has described the transmission of the major healthcare-associated pathogen Clostridium difficile and has also included large-scale sequencing projects tracking the spread of gonorrhoea and the emerging multi-drug resistant fungus Candida auris. I am currently working on developing mathematical models for pathogen transmission that allow risk factors for transmission to be identified, as a means to suggest potential interventions to prevent infections spreading.
I am also interested in using sequencing technologies as a novel tool for culture-independent microbiology diagnostics. These technologies offer the prospect of same-day diagnosis of infection, rather than having to wait several days for bacteria to grow in the lab. I have developed methods using sequencing data to detect the presence of infection, e.g. from orthopedic devices removed from patients, as well as predict antibiotic resistance, e.g. in Enterobacteriaceae and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Additionally I work on using routinely collected healthcare data to investigate the epidemiology of infectious diseases and to investigate individual patient responses to infection and treatment.
I work closely with the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium on several of these projects.
Recent publications
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SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses post-vaccination in UK healthcare workers with pre-existing medical conditions: a cohort study.
Journal article
Ward V. et al, (2022), BMJ open, 12
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Treatment of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever) with cephalosporins
Journal article
Kuehn R. et al, (2022), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022
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CO-CONNECT: A hybrid architecture to facilitate rapid discovery and access to UK wide data in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal article
Jefferson E. et al, (2022), J Med Internet Res
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Benchmarking taxonomic classifiers with Illumina and Nanopore sequence data for clinical metagenomic diagnostic applications.
Journal article
Govender KN. and Eyre DW., (2022), Microb Genom, 8
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RapiD_AI: A framework for Rapidly Deployable AI for novel disease & pandemic preparedness
Preprint
Youssef A. et al, (2022)