Dr Martin McHugh

Honorary Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

mpm20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Selected publications

• Open access

  Consideration of within-patient diversity highlights transmission pathways and antimicrobial resistance gene variability in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

  McHugh, M. P., Pettigrew, K. A., Taori, S., Evans, T. J., Leanord, A., Gillespie, S. H., Templeton, K. E. & Holden, M. T. G., Mar 2024, In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 79, 3, p. 656-668 13 p., dkae023.

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• Open access

  Analysis of the ARTIC V4 and V4.1 SARS-CoV-2 primers and their impact on the detection of Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 lineage-defining mutations

  Ulhuq, F. R., Barge, M., Falconer, K., Wild, J., Fernandes, G., Gallagher, A., McGinley, S., Sugadol, A., Tariq, M., Maloney, D., Kenicer, J., Dewar, R., Templeton, K. & McHugh, M. P., 21 Apr 2023, In: Microbial Genomics. 9, 4, 9 p., 000991.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Investigation of hospital discharge cases and SARS-CoV-2 introduction into Lothian care homes

  Cotton, S., McHugh, M. P., Dewar, R., Haas, J. G., Templeton, K. & COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium, 1 May 2023, In: Journal of Hospital Infection. 135, p. 28-36 9 p.

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• Open access

  The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant was associated with increased clinical severity of COVID-19 in Scotland: a genomics-based retrospective cohort analysis

  Pascall, D. J., Vink, E., Blacow, R., Bulteel, N., Campbell, A., Campbell, R., Clifford, S., Davis, C., da Silva Filipe, A., El Sakka, N., Fjodorova, L., Forrest, R., Goldstein, E., Gunson, R., Haughney, J., Holden, M. T. G., Honour, P., Hughes, J., James, E. & Lewis, T. & 17 others, Lycett, S., MacLean, O., McHugh, M., Mollett, G., Onishi, Y., Parcell, B., Ray, S., Robertson, D. L., Shabaan, S., Shepherd, J. G., Smollett, K., Templeton, K., Wastnedge, E., Wilkie, C., Williams, T., Thomson, E. C. & Consortium, T.C.-1. G. U., 13 Apr 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 4, 19 p., e0284187.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Whole genome sequencing and molecular epidemiology of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from Algeria

  Namoune, R., Djebbar, A., Mekler, R., McHugh, M. P., El Amine Bekara, M., Decano, A., Holden, M. & Sebaihia, M., 9 Aug 2023, In: Microorganisms. 11, 8, 11 p., 2047.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a university outbreak setting and implications for public health planning

  Nickbakhsh, S., Hughes, J., Christofidis, N., Griffiths, E., Shaaban, S., Enright, J., Smollett, K., Nomikou, K., Palmalux, N., Tong, L., Carmichael, S., Sreenu, V. B., Orton, R., Goldstein, E. J., Tomb, R. M., The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Templeton, K., Gunson, R. N., da Silva Filipe, A. & Milosevic, C. & 5 others, Thomson, E., Robertson, D. L., Holden, M., Illingworth, C. J. R. & Smith-Palmer, A., 19 Jul 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 17 p., 11735.

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• Open access

  Genomics-informed outbreak investigations of SARS-CoV-2 using civet

  O’Toole, Á., Hill, V., Jackson, B., Dewar, R., Sahadeo, N., Colquhoun, R., Rooke, S., McCrone, J. T., Duggan, K., McHugh, M. P., Nicholls, S. M., Poplawski, R., Consortium, T.C.-1. G. U., Group), C.-1. I. P., Aanensen, D., Holden, M., Connor, T., Loman, N., Goodfellow, I. & Carrington, C. V. F. & 2 others, Templeton, K. & Rambaut, A., 9 Dec 2022, In: PLOS Global Public Health. 2, 12, 15 p., e0000704.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Presence of optrA-mediated linezolid resistance in multiple lineages and plasmids of Enterococcus faecalis revealed by long read sequencing

  McHugh, M. P., Parcell, B. J., Pettigrew, K. A., Toner, G., Khatamzas, E., el Sakka, N., Karcher, A. M., Walker, J., Weir, R., Meunier, D., Hopkins, K. L., Woodford, N., Templeton, K. E., Gillespie, S. H. & Holden, M. T. G., 7 Feb 2022, In: Microbiology. 168, 2, 7 p., 001137.

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• Evaluation of the molecular detection of ciprofloxacin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae by the ResistancePlus GC assay (SpeeDx)

  Cotton, S., McHugh, M. P., Etherson, M., Shepherd, J. & Templeton, K. E., 1 Apr 2021, In: Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease. 99, 4, 5 p., 115262.

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• Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 from mainland Europe into Scotland

  The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, da Silva Filipe, A., Shepherd, J. G., Williams, T., Hughes, J., Aranday-Cortes, E., Asamaphan, P., Ashraf, S., Balcazar, C., Brunker, K., Campbell, A., Carmichael, S., Davis, C., Dewar, R., Gallagher, M. D., Gunson, R., Hill, V., Ho, A., Jackson, B. & James, E. & 33 others, Jesudason, N., Johnson, N., McWilliam Leitch, E. C., Li, K., MacLean, A., Mair, D., McAllister, D. A., McCrone, J. T., McDonald, S. E., McHugh, M. P., Morris, A. K., Nichols, J., Niebel, M., Nomikou, K., Orton, R. J., O’Toole, Á., Palmarini, M., Parcell, B. J., Parr, Y. A., Rambaut, A., Rooke, S., Shaaban, S., Shah, R., Singer, J. B., Smollett, K., Starinskij, I., Tong, L., Sreenu, V. B., Wastnedge, E., Holden, M. T. G., Robertson, D. L., Templeton, K. & Thomson, E. C., 1 Jan 2021, In: Nature Microbiology. 6, p. 112-122 11 p.

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