Storage stability of non-encapsulated pneumococci in saliva is dependent on null-capsule clade, with strains carrying aliC and aliD showing a competitive disadvantage during culture enrichment

Claire S. Laxton, Orchid M. Allicock, Chikondi Peno, Tzu-Yi Lin, Alidia Koelewijn, Femke L. Toekiran, Luna Aguilar, Anna York*, A. L. Wyllie*

Microbiology, vol. 171(8), 2025 Aug

An abundance of aliC and aliD genes were identified in saliva using a novel multiplex qPCR to characterize group II non-encapsulated pneumococci with improved specificity

Claire S. Laxton*, Femke L. Toekiran*, Tzu-Yi Lin, Beta D. Lomeda, M. Hislop, Lance Keller, Orchid M. Allicock, A. L. Wyllie

Microbiology, vol. 171(4), 2025 Apr

The potential of saliva as an accessible and sensitive sample type for the detection of respiratory pathogens and host immunity

Claire S Laxton PhD*, Chikondi Peno PhD*, Anne M Hahn PhD, Orchid M Allicock PhD, Stephanie Perniciaro PhD, Anne L Wyllie PhD

The Lancet Microbe, vol. 4(10), 2023, pp. e837-e850

PhD Thesis: Exploring the structure, regulation, and function of the surface tethered Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factor, AaaA, and its role in maintaining chronic wound infections

Claire S. Laxton

University of Nottingham, https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72919/?template=etheses, 2022 Oct

Poster: Examining the role of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa autotransporter AaaA in a synthetic chronic wound biofilm

Claire S Laxton, Ana da Silva, Robert Markus, Jack C Leo, Jeni C Luckett, Stephan Heeb, Kim R Hardie

EuroBioFilms. Palma, Spain, ESCMID Study Group on Biofilms , 2022 Aug

Surface-Tethered Planar Membranes Containing the β-Barrel Assembly Machinery: a platform for Investigating Bacterial Outer Membrane Protein Folding.

S. Hall, L. Clifton, P. Sridhar, D. J. Hardy, P. Wotherspoon, Jack Wright, James Whitehouse, Nadisha Gamage, Claire S. Laxton, Caitlin E Hatton, G. Hughes, M. Jeeves, T. Knowles

Biophysical Journal, vol. 120(7), 2021

Evidence for phospholipid export from the bacterial inner membrane by the Mla ABC transport system

G. Hughes*, S. Hall*, Claire S. Laxton*, P. Sridhar*, Amirul H. Mahadi, Caitlin E Hatton, T. Piggot, P. Wotherspoon, Aneika C. Leney, D. Ward, Mohammed Jamshad, Vaclav Spana, I. Cadby, C. Harding, G. Isom, J. Bryant, R. J. Parr, Yasin Yakub, M. Jeeves, D. Huber, I. Henderson, L. Clifton, A. Lovering, T. Knowles

Nature Microbiology, vol. 4, 2019, pp. 1692–1705

MRes Thesis: Antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance

Claire S. Laxton

University of Nottingham, http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/55199, 2018

Isolation of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Multidrug-resistant Elizabethkingia meningoseptica From Neonates Within Minutes of Birth.

B. Kwambana-Adams, Claire S. Laxton, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, G. Weinstock, M. Antonio

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2017