Dr Burcu Isler

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

UQ Centre for Clinical Research

burcu.isler@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Burcu Isler is an Infectious Disease Physician and Clinician Researcher at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. She holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on treatment strategies for antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative infections, the management of bloodstream infections, and orthopedic infections. She also serves as the Secretary of the ESCMID's Bloodstream Infections Study Group (ESGBIES).

Publications

Journal Articles (6)

Journal Articles

Subedi, Shradha, Isler, Burcu, Ezure, Yukiko, Furuya-Kanamori, Luis, Eriksson, Lars, Paterson, David L and Harris, Patrick N. A. (2024). Performance characteristics of genus or species-specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for the microbial diagnosis of joint infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 110 (1) 116422, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2024.116422

Isler, Burcu, Vatansever, Cansel, Özer, Berna, Çınar, Güle, Aslan, Abdullah Tarık, Stewart, Adam, Simos, Peter, Falconer, Caitlin, Bauer, Michelle J., Forde, Brian, Harris, Patrick, Şimşek, Funda, Tülek, Necla, Demirkaya, Hamiyet, Menekşe, Şirin, Akalin, Halis, Balkan, İlker İnanç, Aydın, Mehtap, Tigen, Elif Tükenmez, Demir, Safiye Koçulu, Kapmaz, Mahir, Keske, Şiran, Doğan, Özlem, Arabacı, Çiğdem, Yağcı, Serap, Hazırolan, Gülşen, Bakır, Veli Oğuzalp, Gönen, Mehmet, Saltoğlu, Neşe ... Can, Füsun (2022). Comparison of ceftazidime-avibactam susceptibility testing methods against OXA-48-like carrying Klebsiella blood stream isolates. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 104 (1) 115745, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2022.115745

Isler, Burcu, Harris, Patrick, Stewart, Adam G. and Paterson, David L. (2020). An update on cefepime and its future role in combination with novel β-lactamase inhibitors for MDR Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 76 (3), 550-560. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkaa511

Gudiol, C., Albasanz-Puig, A., Laporte-Amargós, J., Pallarès, N., Mussetti, A., Ruiz-Camps, I., Puerta-Alcalde, P., Abdala, E., Oltolini, C., Akova, M., Montejo, M., Mikulska, M., Martín-Dávila, P., Herrera, F., Gasch, O., Drgona, L., Paz Morales, H., Brunel, A. S., García, E., Isler, B., Kern, W. V., Morales, I., Maestro-De La Calle, G., Montero, M., Kanj, S. S., Sipahi, O. R., Calik, S., Márquez-Gómez, I., Marin, J. I. ... Sangro Del Alcázar, Paloma (2020). Clinical predictive model of multidrug resistance in neutropenic cancer patients with bloodstream infection due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 64 (4) e02494. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02494-19

Isler, Ozan, Isler, Burcu, Kopsacheilis, Orestis and Ferguson, Eamonn (2020). Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: A field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour. BMC Public Health, 20 (1) 240, 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-8246-3

Bayrak, Burcu, Fıncanci, Muzaffer, Bınay, Umut Devrim, Çımen, Cansu and Özkantar Ünlügüneş, Gülay Ulkü (2014). Bardet-Biedl Sendromlu Kronik Böbrek Yetmezliği Olan Bir Hastada Elizabethkingia meningosepticum Bakteriyemis. Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni, 48 (3), 495-500. doi: 10.5578/mb.7798