Dr Alexander Aiken MB BChir MSc MRCP

Research Fellow in Clinical Epidemiology

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Alex Aiken is a Clinical Research Fellow in the epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections in Kenya. He works in the fields of surgical site infections, paediatric nosocomial bacteraemia, antibiotic resistance and hospital-acquisition of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Alex recently gave a presentation on the use of antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of surgical site infections at the 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections in New Dehli, India (October 2011) which can be viewed here (click on "Download this tool" when new page opens).

 

 

Affiliation

• Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

Alex teaches on the Distance Learning Epidemiology MSc course at LSHTM.

Research

Alex has worked with a variety of different institutions:

• the MRC Unit in the Gambia in 2005-6 on TB, including clinical application of immunological methods (ELISPOT) for TB diagnosis.
•  The Health Protection Agency (UK) in 2008-9, working on Non-Typhoidal Salmonella epidemiology.
• The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya, studing the epidemiology of Hospital-acquired Infections in Thika District Hospital and Kilifi District Hospital.

• Selected publications

• Risk and causes of paediatric hospital-acquired bacteraemia in Kilifi District Hospital, Kenya: a prospective cohort study.

  Aiken, A.M. ; Mturi, N. ; Njuguna, P. ; Mohammed, S. ; Berkley, J.A. ; Mwangi, I. ; Mwarumba, S. ; Kitsao, B.S. ; Lowe, B.S. ; Morpeth, S.C. ; Hall, A.J. ; Khandawalla, I. ; Scott, J.A. ; Kilifi Bacteraemia Surveillance Group, . ;

  Lancet, 2011; 378(9808):2021-7

• Risk of Salmonella infection with exposure to reptiles in England, 2004-2007.

  Aiken, A.M.; Lane, C.; Adak, G.K.;

  Euro Surveill, 2010; 15(22):19581

• Incidence of tuberculosis and the predictive value of ELISPOT and Mantoux tests in Gambian case contacts.

  Hill, P.C.; Jackson-Sillah, D.J.; Fox, A.; Brookes, R.H.; de Jong, B.C.; Lugos, M.D.; Adetifa, I.M.; Donkor, S.A.; Aiken, A.M.; Howie, S.R.; Corrah, T.; McAdam, K.P.; Adegbola, R.A.;

  PLoS One, 2008; 3(1):e1379

• Progression to active tuberculosis, but not transmission, varies by Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage in The Gambia.

  de Jong, B.C. ; Hill, P.C. ; Aiken, A. ; Awine, T. ; Antonio, M. ; Adetifa, I.M. ; Jackson-Sillah, D.J. ; Fox, A. ; Deriemer, K. ; Gagneux, S. ; Borgdorff, M.W. ; McAdam, K.P. ; Corrah, T. ; Small, P.M. ; Adegbola, R.A. ;

  J Infect Dis, 2008; 198(7):1037-43

• Clinical presentation and outcome of tuberculosis patients infected by M. africanum versus M. tuberculosis.

  de Jong, B.C. ; Hill, P.C. ; Aiken, A. ; Jeffries, D.J. ; Onipede, A. ; Small, P.M. ; Adegbola, R.A. ; Corrah, T.P. ;

  Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2007; 11(4):450-6

• Longitudinal assessment of an ELISPOT test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

  Hill, P.C. ; Brookes, R.H. ; Fox, A. ; Jackson-Sillah, D. ; Jeffries, D.J. ; Lugos, M.D. ; Donkor, S.A. ; Adetifa, I.M. ; de Jong, B.C. ; Aiken, A.M. ; Adegbola, R.A. ; McAdam, K.P. ;

  PLoS Med, 2007; 4(6):e192

• Reversion of the ELISPOT test after treatment in Gambian tuberculosis cases.

  Aiken, A.M. ; Hill, P.C. ; Fox, A. ; McAdam, K.P. ; Jackson-Sillah, D. ; Lugos, M.D. ; Donkor, S.A. ; Adegbola, R.A. ; Brookes, R.H. ;

  BMC Infect Dis, 2006; 6:66

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