Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
-
Preventing a cluster from becoming a new wave in settings with zero community COVID-19 cases
Published 2022BackgroundIn settings with zero community transmission, any new SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks are likely to be the result of random incursions. The level of restrictions in place at the time of the incursion is likely to considerably ...Article -
Replacement of the Gamma by the Delta variant in Brazil: Impact of lineage displacement on the ongoing pandemic
Published 2022The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in Brazil was driven mainly by the spread of Gamma (P.1), a locally emerged variant of concern (VOC) that was first detected in early January 2021. This variant was estimated ...Article -
Virome characterization of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging pathogens
Published 2022Game animals are wildlife species traded and consumed as food, and potential reservoirs for SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. We performed a meta-transcriptomic analysis of 1941 game animals, representing 18 species and five mammalian ...Article -
Simulating Transmission Scenarios of the Delta Variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Australia
Published 2022An outbreak of the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant of SARS-CoV-2 that began around mid-June 2021 in Sydney, Australia, quickly developed into a nation-wide epidemic. The ongoing epidemic is of major concern as the Delta variant ...Article -
Diversity and evolution of the animal virome
Published 2022The COVID-19 pandemic has given the study of virus evolution and ecology new relevance. Although viruses were first identified more than a century ago, we likely know less about their diversity than that of any other ...Article