• Bacteriophages of, and phage resistance mechanisms in, the lactic acid bacterium streptococcus thermophilus 

  McDonnell, Brian (University College Cork, 2016)
• Prevalence and control of Clostridium difficile in patients with cystic fibrosis 

  Burke, Daniel Gerard (University College Cork, 2014)

  The aim of this thesis was to investigate the high prevalence of Clostridium difficile in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and to control its dissemination. To determine the carriage rate of C. difficile in CF patients, ...
• Bacteria and tumours: causative agents or opportunistic inhabitants? 

  Cummins, Joanne; Tangney, Mark (BioMed Central, 2013-03-28)

  Associations between different bacteria and various tumours have been reported in patients for decades. Studies involving characterisation of bacteria within tumour tissues have traditionally been in the context of ...
• Catabolic flexibility of mammalian-associated lactobacilli 

  O'Donnell, Michelle M.; O'Toole, Paul W.; Ross, R. Paul (BioMed Central, 2013-05-16)

  Metabolic flexibility may be generally defined as “the capacity for the organism to adapt fuel oxidation to fuel availability”. The metabolic diversification strategies used by individual bacteria vary greatly from the use ...
• Interaction between Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa 

  Konstantinidou, Nina (University College Cork, 2016)

  Fungal pathogen Candida albicans causes serious nosocomial infections in patients, in part, due to formation of drug-resistant biofilms. Protein kinases (PK) and transcription factors (TF) mediate signal transduction and ...

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