Dr Naomi Bulteel :Clinical Infection Research Group

Position:

Consultant Physician

Research Interests:

HIV Therapeutics and Standards of Care
Blood-Borne Virus Infection (HIV/viral hepatitis)
Infectious Diseases

Projects/ grants:

SUPERNOVA
RECOVERY
ISARIC4C

Background:

Naomi Bulteel is a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases & General Medicine in Edinburgh, and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer with the University of Edinburgh. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 2008, and completed her Infectious Diseases & General Medicine training in London & South East Scotland. Along the way she read for a PhD in Infection & Immunity at the University of Glasgow, looking at predictors of disease progression and outcome in chronic hepatitis C virus infection. She obtained her Diploma in HIV Medicine in 2019. She was appointed to a consultant position in NHS Lothian in 2023, and is the clinical lead for HIV for the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit.

Key Publications:

2014

The emergence of drug resistant HIV variants at virological failure of HAART combinations containing efavirenz, tenofovir and lamivudine or emtricitabine within the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort.

Bulteel N, Bansi-Matharu L, Churchill D, Dunn D, Bibby D, Hill T, Sabin C, Nelson M; UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (CHIC) Study Group; UK HIV Drug Resistance Database (UK HDRD) Study Group. J Infect. 2014 Jan;68(1):77-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2013.09.005. Epub 2013 Sep 20.

2016

Factors associated with spontaneous clearance of chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

Bulteel N, Partha Sarathy P, Forrest E, Stanley AJ, Innes H, Mills PR, Valerio H, Gunson RN, Aitken C, Morris J, Fox R, Barclay ST.

J Hepatol. 2016 Aug;65(2):266-72. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.04.030. Epub 2016 May 4.

2021

HIV testing in secondary care: a multicentre longitudinal mixed methods electronic survey of non-HIV specialist hospital physicians in South-East Scotland and Northern England.

Bulteel N, Henderson N, Parris V, Capstick R, Premchand N, Hunter E, Perry M.

J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2021 Sep;51(3):230-236. doi: 10.4997/JRCPE.2021.305.

All Publications:

2007

Evidence behind the WHO guidelines: hospital care for children: what are the risks of HIV transmission through breastfeeding?

Bulteel N, Henderson P.

J Trop Pediatr. 2007 Oct;53(5):298-302. doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmm072.

J Trop Pediatr. Epub 2007 Oct 9.

2007 Dec;53(6):370-3. doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmm071.

2019

The utility of peripheral blood leucocyte ratios as biomarkers in infectious diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Russell CD, Parajuli A, Gale HJ, Bulteel NS, Schuetz P, de Jager CPC, Loonen AJM, Merekoulias GI, Baillie JK.

J Infect. 2019 May;78(5):339-348. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2019.02.006. Epub 2019 Feb 22.

PMID: 30802469

Successful reintroduction of tumour necrosis factor-alpha inhibition after treatment of disseminated Lyme borreliosis.

Bulteel NS, Russell CD, Perry MR, Koch O.

J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2019 Jun;49(2):122-124. doi: 10.4997/JRCPE.2019.207.

2022

Clinical management of community-acquired meningitis in adults in the UK and Ireland in 2017: a retrospective cohort study on behalf of the National Infection Trainees Collaborative for Audit and Research (NITCAR).

Ellis J, Harvey D, Defres S, Chandna A, MacLachlan E, Solomon T, Heyderman RS, McGill F; National Audit of Meningitis Management (NAMM) group.

BMJ Open. 2022 Jul 13;12(7):e062698. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062698.

2023

The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant was associated with increased clinical severity of COVID-19 in Scotland: A genomics-based retrospective cohort analysis.

Pascall DJ, Vink E, Blacow R, Bulteel N, Campbell A, Campbell R, Clifford S, Davis C, da Silva Filipe A, El Sakka N, Fjodorova L, Forrest R, Goldstein E, Gunson R, Haughney J, Holden MTG, Honour P, Hughes J, James E, Lewis T, Lycett S, MacLean O, McHugh M, Mollett G, Onishi Y, Parcell B, Ray S, Robertson DL, Shabaan S, Shepherd JG, Smollett K, Templeton K, Wastnedge E, Wilkie C, Williams T, Thomson EC; COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium.

PLoS One. 2023 Apr 13;18(4):e0284187. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284187. eCollection 2023.

Directions of change in intrinsic case severity across successive SARS-CoV-2 variant waves have been inconsistent.

Pascall DJ, Vink E, Blacow R, Bulteel N, Campbell A, Campbell R, Clifford S, Davis C, da Silva Filipe A, El Sakka N, Fjodorova L, Forrest R, Goldstein E, Gunson R, Haughney J, Holden MTG, Honour P, Hughes J, James E, Lewis T, MacLean O, McHugh M, Mollett G, Nyberg T, Onishi Y, Parcell B, Ray S, Robertson DL, Seaman SR, Shabaan S, Shepherd JG, Smollett K, Templeton K, Wastnedge E, Wilkie C, Williams T; COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium; Thomson EC.

J Infect. 2023 Aug;87(2):128-135. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.05.019. Epub 2023 Jun 1.

Successful treatment of severe calciphylaxis in a renal transplant patient with previous total parathyroidectomy.

Smith R, Bulteel N, Alfonzo A, Gupta S.

J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2023 Sep;53(3):207-211. doi: 10.1177/14782715231184519. Epub 2023 Jul 10.

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