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Guduru Gopal Rao

Guduru Gopal Rao (born 1954, Cuttack, India) has worked as a consutant in National Health Service since 1990 and is currently the head of the Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Clinical Microbiology at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. Rao is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom.

Rao led the teams that introduced alcohol based hand disinfectants at the end of beds in hospitals for the first time in the UK, in University Hospital Lewisham, back in the early 2000s.

Rao also introduced universal Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) screening at the point of hospital admission for the first time in the UK leading to reduced infection rates. This was later mandated to become national policy.

Rao is an expert advisor for Group B Strep Support and introduced routine Group B Streptococcus (GBS) screening of pregnant women in London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust for the first time in the UK. Provided by Wikipedia

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To screen or not to screen women for Group B Streptococcus () to prevent early onset sepsis in newborns: recent advances in the unresolved debate

by Guduru Gopal Rao, Priya Khanna
Published 2020-07-01

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A case of neck abscess caused by rare hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, capsular type K20 and sequence type 420

by John Alexander McHardy, Vathshalan Selvaganeshapillai, Priya Khanna, Ashley Michael Whittington, Jane Turton, Guduru Gopal Rao
Published 2021-06-01

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Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes in a cohort of patients with pyogenic and amoebic liver abscess

by Lorna Neill, Frances Edwards, Simon M. Collin, David Harrington, Dominic Wakerley, Guduru Gopal Rao, Alastair C. McGregor
Published 2019-06-01

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Utility of the FebriDx point-of-care assay in supporting a triage algorithm for medical admissions with possible COVID-19: an observational cohort study

by Hamish Houston, John Ross, Ankur Gupta-Wright, Sarah Ann Filson, Nidhi Vaid, Guduru Gopal Rao, Laurence John, Kamal Shah, Gavin Deas, Shivam Naik, Shiras Patel, Maria Greca Dottori, Michael Tay, James Biggin-Lamming, Natalie Vaughan, Amit K Amin
Published 2021-08-01

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Cross-sectional observational study of epidemiology of COVID-19 and clinical outcomes of hospitalised patients in North West London during March and April 2020

by Paula Blomquist, Ashley Whittington, Miriam Harris, Alastair McGregor, Padmasayee Papineni, Guduru Gopal Rao, Alexander Allen, Liyang Wang, Laurence John, Stephen Hiles, Valerie Decraene, Bharat Patel, Yimmy Chow, Martin Kuper, Sharpe Roger, Cohen David, Tennant Rachel, Vaid Nidhi, Sahnan Kapil, Gross Jamie, Husain Tariq, Parris Victoria, Sandhu Gurjinder, Rosen Stuart, Cayley Charles, Patel Sangita, Blair Mitchel, Lewis Simon, Chita Sunder, Winn Trish, Biggin-Lamming James, Sewel Catherine, Gregory Laila, Tozer Philip, Littler Stephen
Published 2021-02-01

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