Home| Professor of Tuberculosis and Mycobacterial Diseases |
| Director, Mycobacterium Reference Unit |
Publications since 2001
• Rose, AM, Watson, JM, Graham, C, Nunn, AJ, Drobniewski F A. , Ormerod, LP, Darbyshire, JH, Leese, J. (2001) Tuberculosis at the end of the 20th century in England and Wales : results of a national survey in 1998. Thorax. 56(3):173-9.
• Caws, M and Drobniewski F A. (2001) Molecular techniques in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the detection of drug resistance. Ann New York Acad Sci . 953: 138-45.
• Drobniewski F A . and Balabanova, Y (2002) The diagnosis and management of multiple drug resistant tuberculosis at the beginning of the new millenium. Int J Infect Dis . 6: S21-S31.
• Hayward AC, Goss S, Drobniewski F A. , Saunders N, Shaw RJ, Goyal M, Swan A, Uttley A, Pozniac A, Grace-Parker J, Watson JM. (2002). The molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in inner London . Epidemiology and Infection ;128:175-84
• Djuretic, T, Herbert, J, Drobniewski F A. , Yates, M, Smith, EG, Magee, JG, Williams, R, Flanagan, P, Watt, B, Rayner, A, Crowe, M, Chadwick, MV, Middleton, AM, Watson, JM. (2002). Antibiotic resistant tuberculosis in the United Kingdom : 1993-1999. Thorax , ;57(6):477-482 .
• Drobniewski F A. , Eltringham, I, Graham, C, Magee, JG, Smith, EG and Watt, B. (2002). A national study of clinical and laboratory factors affecting the survival of patients with multiple drug resistant tuberculosis in the UK . Thorax 57:810-816. .
• Yates , MD , Drobniewski F A. and Wilson , SM. (2002). Evaluation of a rapid PCR-based epidemiological typing (RAPET) method for routine studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis . J Clin Microbiol. 40: 712-714.
• Maguire, H, Dale, JW, McHugh, TD, Butcher, PD, Gillespie, SH, Costetsos, A, Al-Ghusein, H., Holland , R, Dickens, A, Marston, L, Wilson, P, Pitman, R, Strachan, D, Drobniewski F A. , Banerjee, DK. (2002) Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in London 1995-7 showing low rate of active transmission. Thorax 57: 617-622.
• Thwaites GE, Chau TT, Caws M, Phu NH, Chuong LV, Sinh DX, Drobniewski F A. , White NJ, Parry CM, Farrar JJ. (2002). Isoniazid resistance, mycobacterial genotype and outcome in Vietnamese adults with tuberculous meningitis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis ; 6: 865-71
• Drobniewski F A, Balabanova, Y, Ruddy , M, L Weldon , L, Jeltkova , K, Brown, T, Malomanova , N, Elizarova , E, Melentev , A, Mutovkin , E, Zhaharova , S, Fedorin , I. (2002). Rifampin and multiple drug resistant tuberculosis in the Russian civilian and prison sectors - dominance of the Beijing strain family. Emerging Infectious Diseases 8(11):1320-6.
• Ruddy M, McHugh TD, Dale JW, Banerjee D, Maguire H, Wilson P, Drobniewski F A. , Butcher P, Gillespie SH Estimation of the rate of unrecognized cross-contamination with mycobacterium uberculosis in London microbiology laboratories J Clin Microbiol 2002 Nov;40(11):4100-4.
• Filliol, I, Driscoll, JR, van Soolingen,D.., Drobniewski F A., F..Sola,C and Rastogi, N. (2002) Global Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Spoligotypes. Emerging Infectious Diseases Nov;8(11):1347-9.
• Melzer M, Warley A, Milburn H, O'Sullivan D, Barker RD, Hutchinson D, Shelton D, Drobniewski F A. , French G. (2003) Tuberculosis and HIV seroprevalence in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, an area of South London . Respir Med ;97(2):167-72.
• Drobniewski F A. , Balabanova. Y. Ruddy, M, Fedorin, I, Melentyev, A, Mutovkin, E, Kuznetzov S. (2003). A Descriptive Medical And Social Analysis Of Prisoners With TB In A Russian Prison Colony. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2003;36(2):234-5
• Hutchison, DCS, Drobniewski F A. and Milburn, HJ. (2003) Management of multiple drug resistant tuberculosis. Respir Med. ;97(1):65-70.
• Park DJ, Drobniewski F A. , Meyer A, Wilson SM. Use of a phage-based assay for phenotypic detection of mycobacteria directly from sputum. J Clin Microbiol 2003 Feb;41(2):680-8.
• Maguire H, Dale JW, McHugh TD, Butcher PD, Gillespie SH, Costetsos A, Al-Ghusein H, Holland R, Dickens A, Marston L, Wilson P, Pitman R, Strachan D, Drobniewski F A. , Banerjee DK. (2003) Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in London 1995-7 showing low rate of active transmission. Mol Pathol 2003 Apr;56(2):121-6.
• Filliol I, Driscoll JR, van Soolingen D, Kreiswirth BN, Kremer K, Valetudie G, Dang DA, Barlow R, Banerjee D, Bifani PJ, Brudey K, Cataldi A, Cooksey RC, Cousins DV, Dale JW, Dellagostin OA, Drobniewski F A. , Engelmann G, Ferdinand S, Gascoyne-Binzi D, Gordon M, Gutierrez MC, Haas WH, Heersma H, Kassa-Kelembho E, Ho ML, Makristathis A, Mammina C, Martin G, Mostrom P, Mokrousov I, Narbonne V, Narvskaya O, Nastasi A, Niobe-Eyangoh SN, Pape JW, Rasolofo-Razanamparany V, Ridell M, Rossetti ML, Stauffer F, Suffys PN, Takiff H, Texier-Maugein J, Vincent V, de Waard JH, Sola C, Rastogi N.. (2003) Snapshot of moving and expanding clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and their global distribution assessed by spoligotyping in an international study . J Clin Microbiol 2003 May (5):1963-70.
• Drobniewski F A., Gibson A, Ruddy M, Yates MD. (2003) Evaluation and Utilization as a Public Health Tool of a National Molecular Epidemiological Tuberculosis Outbreak Database within the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 May;41(5):1861-8.
• Drobniewski F A., Strutt M, Smith G, Magee J, Flanagan P (2003) Audit of scope and culture techniques applied to samples for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis by hospital laboratories in England and Wales . Epidemiol Infect ;130(2):235-7.
• Drobniewski F A., Caws M, Gibson A, Young D. (2003) Modern laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis. Lancet Infect Dis ;3(3):141-7.
• Adegbola RA, Hill P, Baldeh I, Otu J, Sarr R, Sillah J, Lienhardt C, Corrah T, Manneh K, Drobniewski F A. , McAdam KP. (2003) Surveillance of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in The Gambia . Int J Tuberc Lung Dis ;7(4):390-3.
• Dale JW, Al-Ghusein H, Al-Hashmi S, Butcher P, Dickens AL, Drobniewski F A. , Forbes KJ, Gillespie SH, Lamprecht D, McHugh TD, Pitman R, Rastogi N, Smith AT, Sola C, Yesilkaya H. (2003) Evolutionary relationships among strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with few copies of IS6110. J Bacteriol ;185(8):2555-62
• Caws, M and Drobniewski F A. (2003). Laboratory Diagnosis. In Clinical Tuberculosis . (Davies, POD ed.), Arnold , London pp 45-59.
• Gibson , AL , Hewinson, G, Goodchild, T, Watt, B, Story , A, Inwald, J, Drobniewski F A. . (2004) Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis disease in humans in the UK . J Clin Microbiol. ;42(1):431- 4.
• Coker RJ, Dimitrova B, Drobniewski F A. , Samyshkin Y, Balabanova Y, Kuznetsov S, Fedorin I, Melentsiev A, Marchenko G, Zakharova S, Atun R. (2003) Tuberculosis control in Samara Oblast, Russia : institutional and regulatory environment. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis ;7(10):920-32.
• Conaty, SJ, Hayward , AC, Story, A, Glynn, JR, Drobniewski F A. Watson, J. (2004) Explaining risk factors for drug resistant tuberculosis in England and Wales : contribution of primary and secondary drug resistance. Epidemiol Infect . 2004;132(6):1099-108 .
• Smith, RMM, Drobniewski F A, Gibson, A, Montague, JDE, Logan , M, Hunt, D, Meecham-Jones, J, Hewinson, G , R L Salmon .. (2004) Mycobacterium bovis infection: first indigeneous human cases in UK in a decade. Emerging Infectious Diseases ;10(3):539-41
• Drobniewski F A. , Balabanova Y, Coker R. (2004) Clinical features, diagnosis, and management of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis since 2002. Curr Opin Pulm Med .;10(3):211-217.
• Ruddy MC, Davies AP, Yates MD, Yates S, Balasegaram S, Drabu Y, Patel B, Lozewicz S, Sen S, Bahl M, James E, Lipman M, Duckworth G, Watson JM, Piper M, Drobniewski F A. , Maguire H. (2004) Outbreak of isoniazid resistant tuberculosis in north London . Thorax ; 59(4):279-85.
• Nikolayevsky, V, Brown, T, Balabanova, Y, Ruddy, M, Fedorin, I and Drobniewski F A. (2004) .Detection of mutations associated with isoniazid and rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Samara Region, Russian Federation . J Clin Microbiol. 42(10):4498-502 ..
• Baker, L, Brown, T, Maiden, M and Drobniewski F A. (2004). Silent nucleotide polymorphisms and a phylogeny for Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Emerging Infectious Diseases ;10(9):1568-77 .
• Glynn, J, Yates, MD, Crampin, AC, Ngwira, BM, Mwaungulu, FD, Black, GF, Chaguluka, SD, Mwafulirwa, DT, Floyd, S, Murphy, C, Drobniewski F A. , Fine, PEM. (2004) DNA fingerprint changes in tuberculosis: re-infection, evolution, or laboratory error? J Infect Dis 15;190(6):1158-66 .
• Drobniewski F A., Atun, R, Bikov, A, Fedorin, I, Coker, R. (2004) Bear trap': the colliding epidemics of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and HIV in Russia . Internat J STD and AIDS . 15(10):641-6.
• Atun, RA, Samyshkin, YA, Drobniewski F A. , Kuznetsov, SI, Fedorin, IM, Coker, RJ. Seasonal variation and hospital utilization for tuberculosis in Russia : hospitals as social care institutions. (2004) European J Public Health (in press).
• Balabanova, Y, Fedorin, I, Kuznetsov, S, Graham, C, Ruddy, M, Atun, R, Coker, R, Drobniewski F A. . (2004). Antimicrobial prescribing patterns for respiratory diseases including tuberculosis in Russia -a possible role in drug resistance? Journal Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 54(3):673-9.
• Easterbrook, PJ., Gibson, G , Murad, S, Lamprecht, D, Ives, N, Ferguson , A, Lowe, O, Mason, P, Ndudzo, A, Makombe, R, Mbengeranwa, L , Sola, C, and Drobniewski F A. . (2004). High rates of clustering of tuberculosis strains in Harare , Zimbabwe : a molecular epidemiological study . J Clin Microbiol. 42(10):4536-44 .
• Atun, R.A., Y.A. Samyshkin, Y.A., Drobniewski F A. , Gusarova G., Skuratova , N.M. , Kuznetsov, S.I., Fedorin, I.M., Coker R. J.. (2005) Barriers to sustainable tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation health system. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation . 83(3):217-23
• Atun, R, Lennox-Chhugani, N, Drobniewski F A. , Samyshkin, YA, Coker, R. (2005). A framework and toolkit for capturing the communicable disease programmes within health systems -tuberculoosis control as an illustrative example. European J Public Health 14(3):267-73 .
• Dimitrova B, Hutchings A, Atun R, Drobniewski F A., Marchenko G, Zakharova S, Fedorin I, Coker RJ. (2005) Increased risk of tuberculosis among health care workers in Samara Oblast , Russia : analysis of notification data. Int J Tuberculosis and Lung Dis .9 (1): 1-6.
• Atun, R, Lebcir, R, Drobniewski F A. , Coker, R. Impact of an effective MDRTB control programme in the setting of an immature HIV epidemic. Int J STD and AIDS 2005; 16(8):560-70.
• Baker LV , Brown TJ, Maxwell O, Gibson AL , Fang Z, Yates MD and Drobniewski F A. (2005) A molecular analysis of isoniazid resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in England and Wales . Antimicrobial Agents and Chemother . 49(4):1455-64.
• Balabanova, Y. M. Ruddy . J. Hubb . M. Yates, N. Malomanova . I. Fedorin . Drobniewski F A. (2005). Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Russia : clinical characteristics, analysis of second-line drug resistance and development of standardized therapy. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect D is. ;24(2):136-9.
• Drobniewski F A. Nikolayevsky, V, Asmolov, A, Bazhora Yu, Servetsky, S . (2005) Increasing trends in HIV and TB rates in Odessa and the Ukraine . Internat. J. STD and AIDS 2005; 16(5):374-8.
• Ruddy, M, Y Balabanova, Y, Graham, C, Fedorin, I, Malomanova, N, Elisarova, E, Kuznetznov, Gusarova, G, Zakharova S, Melentyev, A, E Krukova , V Golishevskaya , V Erokhin , I Dorozhkova, Drobniewski F A. (2005) Rates of drug resistance and risk factor analysis in civilian and prison patients with tuberculosis in Samara Region, Russia . Thorax ;60(2):130-5.
• Glynn JR, Crampin AC, Traore H, Yates MD, Mwaungulu FD, Ngwira BM, Chaguluka SD, Mwafulirwa DT, Floyd S, Murphy C, Drobniewski F A, Fine PE. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype, northern Malawi . Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Jan;11(1):150-3.
• Drobniewski F A. , Balabanova, Y, Ruddy, M, Graham, C, Kuznetzov, SI, Gusarova, GI, Zakharova, SM, Melentyev , AS , Fedorin, IM . Tuberculosis, HIV seroprevalence, and intravenous drug abuse in Russian prisoners. Eur Respir J . 2005; 26; 298-304.
• Drobniewski F A. , Balabanova, Y , Nikolayevsky, V, Ruddy, M , Kuznetzov, SI, Zakharova, SM, Melentyev , AS , Fedorin, IM. Drug resistant tuberculosis, clinical virulence and the dominance of the Beijing strain family in Russia . JAMA 2005; 293:2726-2731.
• Balabanova, Y, Coker, R, Fedorin, I, Zakharova, Plavinskij, S, Krukov, SN, R Atun, R and Drobniewski F A. . Intra- and inter-observer agreement in chest X-ray interpretation amongst Russian physicians: implications for active screening for tuberculosis- an observational study. BMJ 2005 13;331(7513):379-82 .
• Atun RA , Samyshkin YA , Drobniewski F A. , Kuznetsov SI , Fedorin IM , Coker RJ . Social factors influencing hospital utilisation by tuberculosis patients in the Russian Federation : analysis of routinely collected data. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2005 Oct;9(10):1140-6.
• Brown TJ , Herrera-Leon L , Anthony RM , Drobniewski F A. . The use of macroarrays for the identification of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Microbiol Methods. 2005 Sep 6.
• Atun RA , Baeza J , Drobniewski F A. , Levicheva V , Coker RJ . Implementing WHO DOTS strategy in the Russian Federation : stakeholder attitudes. Health Policy. 2005 Oct;74(2):122-32
• Atun RA , Lebcir R , Drobniewski F A., Coker RJ . Impact of an effective multidrug-resistant tuberculosis control programme in the setting of an immature HIV epidemic: system dynamics simulation model. Int J STD AIDS. 2005 Aug;16(8):560-70.
• Atun RA , McKee M , Drobniewski F , Coker R . Analysis of how the health systems context shapes responses to the control of human immunodeficiency virus: case-studies from the Russian Federation . Bull World Health Organ. 2005 Oct;83(10):730-8. Epub 2005 Nov 10.
• Gibson A , Brown T , Baker L , Drobniewski F . Can 15-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat analysis provide insight into the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Appl Environ Microbiol. 2005 Dec;71(12):8207-13.
• Coker, R, McKee, M, Atun, R, Dimitrova, B, Dodonova, K, Kuznetsov, S, Drobniewski F A. . Risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis in Russia : a case-control study. BMJ 2006 332(7533):85-7.
• Floyd K , Hutubessy R , Samyshkin Y , Korobitsyn A , Fedorin I , Volchenkov G , Kazeonny B , Coker R , Drobniewski F , Jakubowiak W , Shilova M , Atun RA . Health-systems efficiency in the Russian Federation : tuberculosis control. Bull World Health Organ. 2006 Jan;84(1):43-51. Epub 2006 Feb 23
• Sam, IC, Drobniewski, F, More, P, Kemp, M and Brown, T. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampin resistance, in the United Kingdom . . Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006; 12:(5):752-9
• Crampin, AC, Glynn, JR, Traore, H, Yates, MD, Mwaungulu, L, Mwenebabu, M, Chaguluka, SD, Floyd, S, Drobniewski , F and Fine., PEM. Transmission and transmissibility: the proportion of M tuberculosis transmission attributable to recognised close contacts and to HIV positive sources in northern Malawi . Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006;12(5):729-35
• Kruuner A , Yates MD , Drobniewski FA . Evaluation of MGIT 960-based antimicrobial testing and determination of critical concentrations of first- and second-line antimicrobial drugs with drug-resistant clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Mar;44(3):811-8.
• European Concerted Action on New Generation Genetic Markers and Techniques for the Epidemiology and Control of Tuberculosis. Beijing /W Genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Drug Resistance. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006; (in press).
• Davies, PDO and Drobniewski, F The use of interferon-c-based blood tests for the detection of latent tuberculosis infection. Eur Respir J 2006; 28: 1-3.
• Gopaul, KK, Brown, TJ, Gibson , AL , Yates , MD and Drobniewski,FA Progression towards an improved DNA- amplification based typing technique in the study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiology. J Clin Microbiol. 2006; 44: 2492-2498.
• Dimitrova B , Balabanova D , Atun R , Drobniewski F , Levicheva V , Coker R . Health service providers' perceptions of barriers to tuberculosis care in Russia . Health Policy Plan. 2006 ( in press).
• Nikolayevskyy, V, Gopaul,K, Balabanova , Y, Brown, T, Fedorin , F and Drobniewski, F. Differentiation of M.tuberculosis strains within a population with a predominance of Beijing strains. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006; 12, 1406-1413 .
• Balabanova Y , Coker R , Atun RA , Drobniewski F . Stigma and HIV infection in Russia . AIDS Care. 2006 Oct;18(7):846-52.
• Atun RA , Samyshkin Y , Drobniewski F , Balabanova Y , Fedorin I , Lord J , Coker RJ . Costs and outcomes of tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation : retrospective cohort analysis. Health Policy Plan. 2006 Sep;21(5):353-64.
• Drobniewski FA , Hoffner S , Rusch-Gerdes S , Skenders G , Thomsen V . Recommended standards for modern tuberculosis laboratory services in Europe . Eur Respir J. 2006 Aug 9; [Epub ahead of print}