• High rate of persistent symptoms up to 4 months after community and hospital-managed SARS-CoV-2 infection 

      Darley, David R; Dore, Gregory J; Cysique, Lucette; Wilhelm, Kay A; Andresen, David; Tonga, Katrina; Stone, Emily; Byrne, Anthony; Plit, Marshall; Masters, Jeffrey; Tang, Helen; Brew, Bruce; Cunningham, Philip; Kelleher, Anthony; Matthews, Gail; Mistry, Sandeep G; Walker, Wallace; Earnshaw, James; Cervin, Anders; Gidding, Heather F; Machalek, Dorothy A; Hendry, Alexandra J; Quinn, Helen E; Vette, Kaitlyn; Beard, Frank H; Shilling, Hannah; Hirani, Rena; Gosbell, Ian B; Irving, David O; Hueston, Linda; Downes, Marnie; Carlin, John B; O'Sullivan, Matthew NV; Dwyer, Dominic E; Kaldor, John M; Macartney, Kristine; d'Emden, Michael C; Ungerer, Jacobus PJ; de Jersey, Susan J; Johnston, Kate; Tyson, Chloe; Danny, Indra; Meyer, Lois; Heriot, George S; Jamrozik, Euzebiusz; Way, Teagan L; Tarrant, Seth M; Balogh, Zsolt L; Stanaway, Fiona; Irwig, Les; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando; Bell, Katy J.L.; Horvath, Andrea R; Loy, Clement; Burrell, Aiden JC; Pellegrini, Breanna; Salimi, Farhad; Begum, Husna; Broadley, Tessa; Campbell, Lewis T; Cheng, Allen C; Cheung, Winston; Cooper, D James; Earnest, Arul; Erickson, Simon J; French, Craig J; Litton, Edward; Murthy, Srinivas; McAllister, Richard; Nichol, Alistair; Palermo, Annamaria; Plummer, Mark; Ramanan, Mahesh; Reddi, Benjamin; Reynolds, Claire; Trapani, Tony; Webb, Steven AR; Udy, Andrew; Hao Tran, Tu; Sasikumar, Suraj Narayanan; Hennessy, Annamarie; O’Loughlin, Aiden; Morgan, Lucy; Blakely, Tony; Thompson, Jason; Carvalho, Natalie; Bablani, Laxman; Wilson, Nick; Stevenson, Mark; Scott, Nick; Palmer, Anna; Delport, Dominic; Abeysuriya, Romesh; Stuart, Robyn; Kerr, Cliff C; Mistry, Dina; Klein, Daniel; Sacks-Davis, Rachel; Heath, Katie; Hainsworth, Samuel
      Published 2020
      Recovery after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection remains uncertain. A considerable proportion of patients experience persistent symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection which impacts ...
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    • Red cell and platelet transfusions in neonates: a population based study 

      Bowen, Jennifer R; Patterson, Jillian A; Roberts, Christine L.; Isbister, James P; Irving, David O; Ford, Jane B
      Published 2015-01-01
      Objectives: Reports of neonatal transfusion practices have focused predominantly on premature neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICU), however little is known about transfusion among other neonates. This ...
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    • SEROLOGICAL TESTING OF BLOOD DONORS TO CHARACTERISE THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 2020 

      Machalek, Dorothy A; Vette, Kaitlyn M; Downes, Marnie; Carlin, John B; Nicholson, Suellen; Hirani, Rena; Irving, David O; Gosbell, Iain B; Gidding, Heather F; Shilling, Hannah; Aung, Eithandee; Macartney, Kristine; Kaldor, John M
      Published 2022
      Rapidly identifying and isolating people with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection has been a core strategy to contain COVID-19 in Australia, but a proportion of infections go undetected. We estimated SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody ...
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    • Seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2‐specific antibodies in Sydney after the first epidemic wave of 2020 

      Gidding, Heather F; Machalek, Dorothy A; Hendry, Alexandra J; Quinn, Helen E; Vette, Kaitlyn; Beard, Frank H; Shilling, Hannah S; Hirani, Rena; Gosbell, Iain B; Irving, David O; Hueston, Linda; Downes, Marnie; Carlin, John B; O'Sullivan, Matthew VN; Dwyer, Dominic E; Kaldor, John M; Macartney, Kristine
      Published 2021
      OBJECTIVES: To estimate SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody seroprevalence after the first epidemic wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Sydney. SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: People of any age who had provided blood for testing ...
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    • Seroprevalence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2-Specific Antibodies in Australia After the First Epidemic Wave in 2020: A National Survey 

      Vette, Kaitlyn M; Machalek, Dorothy A; Gidding, Heather F; Nicholson, Suellen; O'Sullivan, Matthew V N; Carlin, John B; Downes, Marnie; Armstrong, Lucy; Beard, Frank H; Dwyer, Dominic E; Gibb, Robert; Gosbell, Iain B; Hendry, Alexandra J; Higgins, Geoff; Hirani, Rena; Hueston, Linda; Irving, David O; Quinn, Helen E; Shilling, Hannah; Smith, David; Kaldor, John M; Macartney, Kristine
      Published 2022
      Background: As of mid-2021, Australia's only nationwide coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic occurred in the first 6 months of the pandemic. Subsequently, there has been limited transmission in most states and ...
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    • Visits to general practitioners after iron-related deferrals from blood donation in middle-aged and older Australian blood donors 

      Karki, Surendra; Davison, Tanya E; Liu, Bette; Bell, Katy J.L.; Olynyk, John K; Hayen, Andrew; Irving, David O
      Published 2021
      Australian Red Cross Lifeblood (Lifeblood) advises donors to visit their general practitioner (GP) for medical follow-up if they are deferred from donating due to having a lower than acceptable level of hemoglobin (Hb) ...
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    • Willingness of blood donors in Australia to provide additional data and blood sample for health research 

      Karki, Surendra; Gemelli, Carley N; Davison, Tanya E; Masser, Barbara M; Marks, Denese C; Bell, Katy J.L.; Liu, Bette; Hayen, Andrew; van den Hurk, Katja; Irving, David O
      Published 2021
      Background:Many blood collection agencies are generating important data on donor health outcomes using large-scale blood donor cohort studies. Such studies can be very effective when donors provide access to linkage of ...
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