• Analytical validity of nanopore sequencing for rapid SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis 

      Bull, Rowena A.; Adikari, Thiruni; Hammond, Jillian M.; Stevanovski, Igor; Ferguson, James M.; Beukers, Alicia G.; Naing, Zin; Yeang, Malinna; Verich, Andrey; Gamaarachichi, Hasindu; Kim, Ki Wook; Luciani, Fabio; Stelzer-Braid, Sacha; Eden, John-Sebastian; Rawlinson, William D.; van Hal, Sebastiaan J.; Deveson, Ira W.
      Published 2020
      ABSTRACT Viral whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provides critical insight into the transmission and evolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Long-read sequencing devices from Oxford Nanopore ...
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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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    • Meta-transcriptomic analysis of virus diversity in urban wild birds with paretic disease 

      Chang, Wei-Shan; Eden, John-Sebastian; Hall, Jane; Shi, Mang; Rose, Karrie; Holmes, Edward C.
      Published 2020
      Wild birds are major natural reservoirs and potential dispersers of a variety of infectious diseases. As such, it is important to determine the diversity of viruses they carry and use this information to help understand ...
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    • Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions 

      Eden, John-Sebastian; Sikazwe, Chisha; Xie, Ruopeng; Deng, Yi-Mo; Sullivan, Sheena G.; Michie, Alice; Levy, Avram; Cutmore, Elena; Blyth, Christopher C; Britton, Philip N; Crawford, Nigel; Dong, Xiaomin; Dwyer, Dominic E.; Edwards, Kimberly M.; Horsburgh, Bethany A.; Foley, David; Kennedy, Karina; Minney-Smith, Cara; Speers, David; Tulloch, Rachel L.; Holmes, Edward C.; Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna; Smith, David W.; Kok, Jen; Barr, Ian G.
      Published 2021
      Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI) with the most severe disease in the young and elderly1,2. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and travel restrictions ...
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    • Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions 

      Eden, John-Sebastian; Sikazwe, Chisha; Xie, Ruopeng; Deng, Yi-Mo; Sullivan, Sheena G.; Michie, Alice; Levy, Avram; Cutmore, Elena; Blyth, Christopher C.; Britton, Philip N.; Crawford, Nigel; Dong, Xiaomin; Dwyer, Dominic E.; Edwards, Kimberly M.; Horsburgh, Bethany A.; Foley, David; Kennedy, Karina; Minney-Smith, Cara; Speers, David; Tulloch, Rachel L.; Holmes, Edward C.; Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna; Smith, David W.; Kok, Jen; Barr, Ian G.
      Published 2022
      Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection with the most severe disease in the young and elderly. Non-pharmaceutical interventions and travel restrictions for controlling ...
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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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