H.E. Pinchin

Effect of drying time, ambient temperature and pre-soaks on prion-infected tissue contamination levels on surgical stainless steel: concerns over prolonged transportation of instruments from theatre to central sterile service departments

I.P. Lipscomb, H.E. Pinchin, Richard Collin et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection · 2006 · 45 citations

Nursing, Food Science, Surgery +17

Amyloid-specific fluorophores for the rapid, sensitive in situ detection of prion contamination on surgical instruments

I.P. Lipscomb, R. Hervé, Katherine Harris et al. · Journal of General Virology · 2007 · 30 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Neurology, Neuroscience +16

The sensitivity of approved Ninhydrin and Biuret tests in the assessment of protein contamination on surgical steel as an aid to prevent iatrogenic prion transmission

I.P. Lipscomb, H.E. Pinchin, Richard Collin et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection · 2006 · 22 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Food Safety +7

A rapid dual staining procedure for the quantitative discrimination of prion amyloid from tissues reveals how interactions between amyloid and lipids in tissue homogenates may hinder the detection of prions

R. Hervé, Richard Collin, H.E. Pinchin et al. · Journal of Microbiological Methods · 2009 · 21 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +11

Are surgical stainless steel wires used for intracranial implantation of PrPsc a good model of iatrogenic transmission from contaminated surgical stainless steel instruments after cleaning?

I.P. Lipscomb, H.E. Pinchin, Richard Collin et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection · 2006 · 16 citations

Medicine, Neurosurgery, Surgery +15