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Davies, Matthew; Anderson, Moray and Hilton, Anthony C. (2017). Acquisition and retention of Clostridium difficile by Musca domestica larvae and pupae during metamorphosis. Journal of Hospital Infection, In pre ,

Worthington, Tony and Hilton, Anthony C. (2016). Sporulation of Clostridium difficile in aerobic conditions is significantly protracted when exposed to sodium taurocholate. Journal of Medical Microbiology & Diagnosis, 5 (2),

Lowden, Preena; Wallis, Corrin; Gee, Nancy and Hilton, Anthony (2015). Investigating the prevalence of Salmonella in dogs within the Midlands region of the United Kingdom. BMC Veterinary Research, 11 ,

Armstrong, Richard and Hilton, Anthony (2015). Statnote 40: Cochran's Q test. Microbiologist, 16 (1), pp. 31-33.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard (2014). Statnote 39: The binomial distribution: comparing two proportions. Microbiologist, 15 (4), pp. 30-33.

Rollason, Jess; McDowell, Andrew; Albert, Hanne B.; Barnard, Emma; Worthington, Tony; Hilton, Anthony C.; Vernallis, Ann; Patrick, Sheila; Elliott, Tom and Lambert, Peter (2013). Genotypic and antimicrobial characterisation of Propionibacterium acnes isolates from surgically excised lumbar disc herniations. BioMed Research International, 2013 ,

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard (2013). Statnote 33:the intra-class correlation coefficient. Microbiologist, 14 , pp. 31-32.

Armstrong, Richard and Hilton, Anthony (2013). Statnote 32 : the partial correlation coefficient. Microbiologist , pp. 28-30.

Armstrong, Richard and Hilton, Anthony (2012). Statnote 30 : The one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA):fixed effects model. Microbiologist, 13 , pp. 32-35.

Armstrong, Richard and Hilton, Anthony (2012). Statnote 29:discriminant analysis. Microbiologist, 13 , pp. 36-38.

Green, Lauren M.; Worthington, Tony; Hilton, Anthony C. and Lambert, Peter A. (2011). Genetic characterization of clinical isolates of Clostridium difficile using an optimized RAPD protocol and PCR ribotyping reveals strain diversity between two tertiary referral Trusts in the West Midlands, UK. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 60 (9), pp. 1287-1291.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2011). Statnote 24: Multiple regression. Microbiologist, 12 , pp. 40-43.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2010). Statnote 23: Non-parametric analysis of variance (ANOVA). Microbiologist, 11 , pp. 46-47.

Karpanen, Tarja J; Conway, Barbara R; Worthington, Tony; Hilton, Anthony C; Elliott, Tom S J and Lambert, Peter A (2010). Enhanced chlorhexidine skin penetration with eucalyptus oil. BMC Infectious Diseases, 10 , p. 278.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2010). Statnote 22: Measuring 'agreement'. Microbiologist, 11 , pp. 40-41.

Gould, Simon W.J.; Cuschieri, Paul; Rollason, Jessica; Hilton, Anthony C; Easmon, Sue and Fielder, Mark D. (2010). The need for continued monitoring of antibiotic resistance patterns in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from London and Malta. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 9 , p. 20.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2010). Statnote 21: non-linear regression: fitting a logistic growth curve. Microbiologist, 2010 , pp. 42-43.

Green, Lauren M.; Worthington, Tony; Hilton, Anthony C. and Lambert, Peter A. (2010). Phenotypic characterisation of Clostridium difficile reveals lack of extracellular virulence factor production and significant differences in antibiogram profiles. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 35 (3), pp. 305-306.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2010). Statnote 20: non-linear regression: fitting a general polynomial curve. Microbiologist, 2010 , pp. 40-42.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2009). Statnote 19: non-linear regression: fitting an exponential curve to data. Microbiologist, 2009 , pp. 44-45.

Hurrell, Edward; Kucerova, Eva; Loughlin, Michael; Caubilla-Barron, Juncal; Hilton, Anthony C.; Armstrong, Richard A.; Smith, Craig; Grant, Judith; Shoo, Shiu and Forsythe, Stephen (2009). Neonatal enteral feeding tubes as loci for colonisation by members of the Enterobacteriaceae. BMC Infectious Diseases, 9 (146),

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2009). Statnote 17: using a regression line for prediction and calibration. Microbiologist, 2009 , pp. 36-37.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2009). Statnote 16: fitting a regression line to data. Microbiologist, 2009 , pp. 40-42.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2008). Statnote 15: the non-parametric correlation coefficients. Microbiologist, 2008 , pp. 41-43.

Rollason, Jessica; Bastin, Lucy; Hilton, Anthony; Pillay, Devadas; Worthington, Tony; McKeon, Caroline; De, Partha; Burrows, Keith and Lambert, Peter A. (2008). Epidemiology of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus obtained from the UK West Midlands region. Journal of Hospital Infection, 70 (4), pp. 314-320.

Wheeldon, L.J.; Worthington, Tony; Hilton, Anthony; Elliott, Tom S.J. and Lambert, Peter A. (2008). Physical and chemical factors influencing the germination of Clostridium difficile spores. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 105 (6), pp. 2223-2230.

Gould, Simon W.J.; Rollason, Jessica; Hilton, Anthony; Cuschieri, Paul; McAuliffe, Laura; Easmon, Susan L. and Fielder, Mark D. (2008). UK epidemic strains of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in clinical samples from Malta. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 57 (11), pp. 1394-1398.

Hilton, Andrew and Tansley, Geoff D. (2008). Magnetic drive system for a new centrifugal rotary blood pump. Artificial Organs, 32 (10), pp. 772-777.

Wheeldon, L.J.; Worthington, Tony; Lambert, Peter A; Hilton, Anthony; Lowden, C.J. and Elliott, Tom S.J. (2008). Antimicrobial efficacy of copper surfaces against spores and vegetative cells of Clostridium difficile: the germination theory. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 62 (3), pp. 522-525.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2008). Statnote 13: a more complex analysis of variance incorporating a 'repeated measures' factor. Microbiologist, 2008 , pp. 37-39.

Wheeldon, L J; Worthington, T; Hilton, A C; Lambert, P A and Elliott, T S J (2008). Sporicidal activity of two disinfectants against Clostridium difficile spores. British Journal of Nursing, 17 (5), pp. 316-320.

Small, H.; Casey, A.L.; Elliott, Tom S.J.; Rollason, Jessica; Hilton, Anthony and Ball, S. (2007). The oral cavity - An overlooked site for MRSA screening and subsequent decolonisation therapy? Journal of Infection, 55 (4), pp. 378-379.

Casey, A.L.; Worthington, Tony; Caddick, J.M.; Hilton, Anthony C.; Lambert, Peter A. and Elliott, Tom S.J. (2007). RAPD for the typing of Staphylococcus aureus implicated in nosocomial infection. Journal of Hospital Infection, 66 (2), pp. 192-193.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2007). Statnote 9: The one-way analysis of variance (random effects model). Microbiologist, 2007 , pp. 40-41.

Bastin, Lucy; Rollason, Jessica; Hilton, Anthony; Pillay, Devadas; Corcoran, Caroline; Elgy, John; Lambert, Peter A.; De, Partha; Worthington, Tony and Burrows, Keith (2007). Spatial aspects of MRSA epidemiology:A case study using stochastic simulation, kernel estimation and SaTScan. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21 (7), pp. 811-836.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2006). Statnote 6: post-hoc ANOVA tests. Microbiologist, 2006 , pp. 34-36.

Caddick, Jonathan M.; Hilton, Anthony C.; Armstrong, Richard A.; Lambert, Peter A.; Worthington, Tony and Elliott, Tom S.J. (2006). Description and critical appraisal of principal components analysis (PCA) methodology applied to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 65 (1), pp. 87-95.

Casey, A.L.; Worthington, T.; Caddick, J.M.; Hilton, A.C.; Lambert, P.A. and Elliott, T.S.J. (2006). RAPD for the typing of coagulase-negative staphylococci implicated in catheter-related bloodstream infection. Journal of Infection, 52 (4), pp. 282-289.

Caddick, Jonathan M.; Hilton, Anthony; Rollason, Jessica; Lambert, Peter A.; Worthington, Tony and Elliott, Tom S.J. (2005). Molecular analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus reveals an absence of plasmid DNA in multidrug-resistant isolates. FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 44 (3), pp. 297-302.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. (2005). Statnote 1: is the data normal? Microbiologist, 2005 , pp. 34-35.

Armstrong, Richard A. and Hilton, Anthony (2004). The use of analysis of variance (ANOVA) in applied microbiology. Microbiologist, 2004 , pp. 18-21.

Braoudaki, Maria and Hilton, Anthony C. (2004). Low level of cross-resistance between triclosan and antibiotics in Escherichia coli K-12 and E. coli O55 compared to E-coli O157. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 235 (2), pp. 305-309.

Perry, A.L.; Worthington, Tony; Hilton, Anthony; Lambert, Peter A.; Stirling, A.J. and Elliott, T.S.J. (2003). Analysis of clinical isolates of Propionibacterium acnes by optimised RAPD. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 228 (1), pp. 51-55.

Allen, Natalie L.; Penn, Charles W. and Hilton, Anthony C. (2003). Representational difference analysis:Critical appraisal and method development for the identification of unique DNA sequences from prokaryotes. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 55 (1), pp. 73-81.

Harper, Lucy V.; Hilton, Anthony C. and Jones, Alan F. (2003). RT-PCR for the pseudogene-free amplification of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (gapd). Molecular and Cellular Probes, 17 (5), pp. 261-265.

Armstrong, Richard and Hilton, Anthony Statnote 31:analysis of covariance. Microbiologist, 13 , pp. 38-39.

Bilkhu, Paramdeep; Wolffsohn, James S.; Hilton, Anthony; Matthews, Gabrielle; Legood, Simon and Riley, Liam Microwave decontamination of eyelid warming devices for the treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction. Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, 39 (4), 293–297.

Braoudaki, M. and Hilton, A.C. Adaptive resistance to biocides in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli O157 and cross-resistance to antimicrobial agents. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42 (1), pp. 73-78.

Davies, M.P.; Anderson, M. and Hilton, A.C. The housefly Musca domestica as a mechanical vector of Clostridium difficile. Journal of Hospital Infection, 94 (3), pp. 263-267.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard Statnote 34 : the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test. Microbiologist, 14 , pp. 28-30.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard Statnote 35: are the data log-normal? Microbiologist, 14 , pp. 26-28.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard Statnote 36: Do the data fit the Poisson distribution. Microbiologist, 15 , pp. 28-30.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard Statnote 37 : the negative binomial distribution. Microbiologist, 15 , pp. 37-39.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 10: the two-way analysis of variance. Microbiologist, 2007 , pp. 41-42.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 11: the two-factor analysis of variance. Microbiologist, 2007 , pp. 40-42.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 12: the split-plot analysis of variance. Microbiologist, 2008 , pp. 38-39.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 14: the correlation of two variables (Pearson's 'r'). Microbiologist, 2008 , pp. 34-36.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 18: comparison of regression lines. Microbiologist, 2009 , pp. 40-41.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 25: Stepwise multiple regression. Microbiologist, 12 , pp. 40-43.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 27: Principal components analysis (PCA). Microbiologist, 12 , pp. 37-39.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 2: describing the normal. Microbiologist, 2005 , pp. 30-33.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 3: testing the difference between two groups. Microbiologist, 2005 , pp. 30-32.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 4: what if the data are not normal? Microbiologist, 2006 , pp. 34-37.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 5: Is one set of data more variable than another? Microbiologist, 2006 , pp. 34-36.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 7: chi-square contingency tables. Microbiologist, 2006 , pp. 36-37.

Hilton, Anthony and Armstrong, Richard A. Statnote 8: statistical power and sample size. Microbiologist, 2007 , pp. 38-40.

Karpanen, Tarja J.; Worthington, Tony; Conway, Barbara R.; Hilton, Anthony C.; Elliott, Tom S.J. and Lambert, Peter A. Penetration of chlorhexidine into human skin. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 52 (10), pp. 3633-3636.

Karpanen, Tarja J.; Worthington, Tony; Conway, Barbara R.; Hilton, Anthony C.; Elliott, Tom S.J. and Lambert, Peter A. Permeation of chlorhexidine from alcoholic and aqueous solutions within excised human skin. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 53 (4), pp. 1717-1719.

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Armstrong, Richard A. and Hilton, Anthony (2010). Statistical analysis in microbiology:statnotes. Wiley.

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