• The antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 infection 

      Hueston, Linda; Kok, Jen; Guibone, Ayla; McDonald, Damien; Hone, George; Goodwin, James; Carter, Ian; Basile, Kerri; Sandaradura, Indy; Maddocks, Susan; Sintchenko, Vitali; Gilroy, Nicole; Chen, Sharon; Dwyer, Dominic E; O’Sullivan, Matthew V N
      Published 2020
      Abstract Background Testing for SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies has become an important tool, complementing nucleic acid tests (NATs) for diagnosis and for determining the prevalence of COVID-19 in population serosurveys. ...
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    • Cell-based culture of SARS-CoV-2 informs infectivity and safe de-isolation assessments during COVID-19 

      Basile, Kerri; McPhie, Kenneth; Carter, Ian; Alderson, Susan; Rahman, Hossinur; Donovan, Linda; Kumar, Shanil; Tran, Tyna; Ko, Danny; Sivaruban, Tharshini; Ngo, Christine; Toi, Cheryl; O'Sullivan, Matthew V; Sintchenko, Vitali; Chen, Sharon C-A; Maddocks, Susan; Dwyer, Dominic E; Kok, Jen
      Published 2020
      BACKGROUND: The detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in respiratory samples collected from persons recovered from COVID-19 does not necessarily indicate shedding of infective virions. ...
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    • An emergent clade of SARS-CoV-2 linked to returned travellers from Iran 

      Eden, John-Sebastian; Rockett, Rebecca; Carter, Ian; Rahman, Hossinur; de Ligt, Joep; Hadfield, James; Storey, Matthew; Ren, Xiaoyun; Tulloch, Rachel; Basile, Kerri; Wells, Jessica; Byun, Roy; Gilroy, Nicky; O'Sullivan, Matthew V; Sintchenko, Vitali; Chen, Sharon C; Maddocks, Susan; Sorrell, Tania C; Holmes, Edward C.; Dwyer, Dominic E; Kok, Jen
      Published 2020
      The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic has rapidly spread outside China with major outbreaks occurring in Italy, South Korea, and Iran. Phylogenetic analyses of whole-genome sequencing data identified a distinct SARS-CoV-2 clade linked ...
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    • An emergent clade of SARS-CoV-2 linked to returned travellers from Iran 

      Eden, John-Sebastian; Rockett, Rebecca; Carter, Ian; Rahman, Hossinur; de Ligt, Joep; Hadfield, James; Storey, Matthew; Ren, Xiaoyun; Tulloch, Rachel; Basile, Kerri; Wells, Jessica; Byun, Roy; Gilroy, Nicky; O'Sullivan, Matthew V; Sintchenko, Vitali; Chen, Sharon C; Maddocks, Susan; Sorrell, Tania C; Holmes, Edward C.; Dwyer, Dominic E; Kok, Jen
      Published 2020
      The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic has rapidly spread outside China with major outbreaks occurring in Italy, South Korea and Iran. Phylogenetic analyses of whole genome sequencing data identified a distinct SARS-CoV-2 clade linked ...
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    • Fulminant Bacillus cereus food poisoning with fatal multi-organ failure. 

      Colaco, Clinton M G; Basile, Kerri; Draper, Jenny; Ferguson, Patricia E
      Published 2021
      This case represents a rare fulminant course of fried-rice associated food poisoning in an immunocompetent person due to pre-formed exotoxin produced by Bacillus cereus, with severe manifestations of sepsis, including ...
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    • Fungal Infections Other Than Invasive Aspergillosis in COVID-19 Patients 

      Basile, Kerri; Halliday, Catriona; Kok, Jen; Chen, Sharon C-A.
      Published 2022
      Invasive fungal disease (IFD) associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has focussed predominantly on invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. However, increasingly emergent are non-Aspergillus fungal infections including ...
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    • Prolonged PCR positivity in elderly patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 

      Howard-Jones, Annaleise R; Maddocks, Susan; Basile, Kerri; Dwyer, Dominic E; Branley, James; Kok, Jen
      Published 2021
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    • Revealing COVID-19 Transmission by SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequencing and Agent Based Modelling 

      Rockett, Rebecca J; Arnott, Alicia; Lam, Connie; Sadsad, Rosemarie; Timms, Verlaine; Gray, Karen-Ann; Eden, John-Sebastian; Chang, Sheryl; Gall, Mailie; Draper, Jenny; Sim, Eby; Bachmann, Nathan L; Carter, Ian; Basile, Kerri; Byun, Roy; O'Sullivan, Matthew V; Chen, Sharon C-A; Maddocks, Susan; Sorrell, Tania C; Dwyer, Dominic E; Holmes, Edward C.; Kok, Jen; Prokopenko, Mikhail; Sintchenko, Vitali
      Published 2020
      Community transmission of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is a major public health concern that remains difficult to assess. We present a genomic survey of SARS-CoV-2 from a during the first 10 weeks of COVID-19 activity ...
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    • Revealing COVID-19 transmission in Australia by SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing and agent-based modeling 

      Rockett, Rebecca J.; Arnott, Alicia; Lam, Connie; Sadsad, Rosemarie; Timms, Verlaine; Gray, Karen-Ann; Eden, John-Sebastian; Chang, Sheryl; Gall, Mailie; Draper, Jenny; Sim, Eby M.; Bachmann, Nathan L.; Carter, Ian; Basile, Kerri; Byun, Roy; O'Sullivan, Matthew V.; Chen, Sharon C-A; Maddocks, Susan; Sorrell, Tania C.; Dwyer, Dominic E.; Holmes, Edward C.; Kok, Jen; Prokopenko, Mikhail; Sintchenko, Vitali
      Published 2020
      In January 2020, a novel betacoronavirus (family Coronaviridae), named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the etiological agent of a cluster of pneumonia cases occurring in Wuhan ...
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    • SARS-CoV-2 Within-Host and in vitro Genomic Variability and Sub-Genomic RNA Levels Indicate Differences in Viral Expression Between Clinical Cohorts and in vitro Culture 

      Agius, Jessica E.; Johnson-Mackinnon, Jessica C.; Fong, Winkie; Gall, Mailie; Lam, Connie; Basile, Kerri; Kok, Jen; Arnott, Alicia; Sintchenko, Vitali; Rockett, Rebecca J.
      Published 2022
      Background: Low frequency intrahost single nucleotide variants (iSNVs) of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been increasingly recognised as predictive indicators of positive selection. ...
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