Stephanie Dancer
Stephanie Dancer

Prof Stephanie Dancer

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  S.Dancer@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Stephanie Dancer is a Consultant Microbiologist in NHS Lanarkshire and Professor of Microbiology at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. She has been editing the Journal of Hospital Infection for 20 years, five of them as editor-in-chief. She also edits for International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Infection, Disease & Health. She trained at Bart's Hospital in London followed by postgraduate studies at Guy's Hospital, where she gained a thesis on the epidemiology and biochemistry of toxin-producing staphylococci.
In 2002-05 Stephanie set up national MRSA surveillance in Scotland and helped establish the Scottish Microbiology Forum. She is currently a member of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) groups on infection control, MRSA & multi-resistant Gram-negative bacilli and NHS Scotland Cleaning & Decontamination committee.
Here research interests include: hospital cleaning, antimicrobial management, hospital-acquired infection and MRSA.

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Assessing the impact of a cleaning programme on environmental hygiene in labour and neonatal wards: an exploratory study in The Gambia

Journal Article
Okomo, U., Gon, G., Darboe, S., Sey, I. C. M., Nkereuwem, O., Leigh, L., …Aiken, A. M. (2024)
Assessing the impact of a cleaning programme on environmental hygiene in labour and neonatal wards: an exploratory study in The Gambia. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 13(1), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-024-01393-6
Background: Effective surface cleaning in hospitals is crucial to prevent the transmission of pathogens. However, hospitals in low- and middle-income countries face cleaning c...

Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces in Scottish hospitals

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Loh, M., Yaxley, N., Moore, G., Holmes, D., Todd, S., Smith, A., …Cherrie, J. W. (in press)
Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces in Scottish hospitals. Journal of Hospital Infection, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2022.11.019
Background There are still uncertainties in our knowledge of the amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus present in the environment; where it can be found, and potential exposure determina...

Insights into the Spectrum of Activity and Mechanism of Action of MGB-BP-3

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Hind, C., Clifford, M., Woolley, C., Harmer, J., McGee, L. M., Tyson-Hirst, I., …Scott, F. J. (2022)
Insights into the Spectrum of Activity and Mechanism of Action of MGB-BP-3. ACS Infectious Diseases, 8(12), 2552-2563. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00445
MGB-BP-3 is a potential first-in-class antibiotic, a Strathclyde Minor Groove Binder (S-MGB), that has successfully completed Phase IIa clinical trials for the treatment of Cl...

How Do Biofilms Affect Surface Cleaning in Hospitals?

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Dancer, S. J. (2022)
How Do Biofilms Affect Surface Cleaning in Hospitals?. Hygiene, 2(3), 132-135. https://doi.org/10.3390/hygiene2030011

What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID ‐19 pandemic?

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Jimenez, J. L., Marr, L. C., Randall, K., Ewing, E. T., Tufekci, Z., Greenhalgh, T., …Prather, K. A. (2022)
What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID ‐19 pandemic?. Indoor Air, 32(8), Article e13070. https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.13070
The question of whether SARS‐CoV‐2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical anal...

Ethanol is indispensable for virucidal hand antisepsis: memorandum from the alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) Task Force, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, and the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Journal Article
Kramer, A., Arvand, M., Christiansen, B., Dancer, S., Eggers, M., Exner, M., …Pittet, D. (2022)
Ethanol is indispensable for virucidal hand antisepsis: memorandum from the alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) Task Force, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, and the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 11(1), Article 93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-022-01134-7
Background: The approval of ethanol by the Biocidal Products Regulation has been under evaluation since 2007. This follows concern over alcohol uptake from ethanol-based hand ...

Airborne SARS-CoV-2

Journal Article
Dancer, S. J. (2022)
Airborne SARS-CoV-2. BMJ, 377, o1408. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1408
Debate over the exact mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been intense. This is entirely reasonable, given that the mechanism of spread determines preventive and potentiall...

A Better Disinfectant for Low-Resourced Hospitals? A Multi-Period Cluster Randomised Trial Comparing Hypochlorous Acid with Sodium Hypochlorite in Nigerian Hospitals: The EWASH Trial

Journal Article
Gon, G., Dansero, L., Aiken, A. M., Bottomley, C., Dancer, S. J., Graham, W. J., …Okwor, T. J. (2022)
A Better Disinfectant for Low-Resourced Hospitals? A Multi-Period Cluster Randomised Trial Comparing Hypochlorous Acid with Sodium Hypochlorite in Nigerian Hospitals: The EWASH Trial. Microorganisms, 10(5), Article 910. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10050910
Environmental hygiene in hospitals is a major challenge worldwide. Low-resourced hospitals in African countries continue to rely on sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) as major disinf...

Safe design and maintenance of bone marrow transplant units: a narrative review

Journal Article
Inkster, T., Peters, C., & Dancer, S. (2022)
Safe design and maintenance of bone marrow transplant units: a narrative review. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 28(8), 1091-1096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2022.03.032
Background Patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation or chemotherapy for cancer are profoundly immunosuppressed. They are at risk for both endogenous and exogenous infec...

Quantifying transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 in different situations

Journal Article
Greenhalgh, T., Peng, Z., Jimenez, J. L., Bahnfleth, W., Dancer, S. J., & Bourouiba, L. (2022)
Quantifying transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 in different situations. BMJ, 376(8322), o106. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o106

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