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Dr Kordo Saeed

Consultant Microbiologist and Honorary Associate Professor

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Clinician, trained in clinical microbiology working at the Department of Infection, at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Southampton School of Medicine. 


I am the chair of the Rapid Diagnostics and Biomarker Working group of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) the secretary for the Bone and Joint infection working group. I have published on Infection Control, Antibiotic Stewardship, Bone and Joint infections & Sepsis.


I am associate editor for The Journal of Bone and Joint Infection (JBJI) and The Journal of Orthopaedic Research(JOR) and edited the 2019 infection issue of surgery.


Chief Investigator for the IDEAL+ trial, IDEntifying pAtients with suspicion of infection in the ED who have Low disease severity using Midregional Proadrenomedullin (MR-proADM).

Landmark publications:


2018 international consensus meeting on   musculoskeletal infection Journal of Orthopaedic   Research

2019-05 | journal-article

SOURCE-WORK-ID: ce4609b6-2420-4019-9431-7bc4a37b6c0b

EID: 2-s2.0-85061426645

EID: 2-s2.0-85061426645

PMID: 30667567

DOI: 10.1002/jor.24229

The early identification of disease   progression in patients with suspected infection presenting to the emergency   department Critical Care

2019-02-08 | journal-article

2019-02-09 SOURCE-WORK-ID: f5073884-68d8-4a9d-a43b-70bc7e223c1b

2019-02-10 EID: 2-s2.0-85061258269

2019-02-11 PMID: 30736862

2019-02-12 DOI: 10.1186/s13054-019-2329-5


Major grants:

As NHS   have been successful in small scale comepetive grants

e.g.   twice ASPIRE Pfizer grant £60K and £15K, Thermofisher £125K

and more   revently with colleauges from Portsmouth research grant 600K from Mologic and   presymptom

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vCAqgEEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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