Faculty of Science: Recent submissions

    • Reorganization of Substance Use Treatment and Harm Reduction Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Survey 

      Radfar S.R.; De Jong C.A.J.; Farhoudian A.; Ebrahimi M.; Rafei P.; Vahidi M.; Yunesian M.; Kouimtsidis C.; Arunogiri S.; Massah O.; Deylamizadeh A.; Brady K.T.; Busse A.; Potenza M.N.; Ekhtiari H.; Baldacchino A.M.; Benmebarek Z.; ISAM-PPIG Global Survey Consortium
      Published 2021
      Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted people with substance use disorders (SUDs) worldwide, and healthcare systems have reorganized their services in response to the pandemic. Methods: ...
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    • Austropuccinia psidii, causing myrtle rust, has a gigabase-sized genome shaped by transposable elements 

      Tobias, P.A.; Schwessinger, B.; Deng, C.H.; Wu, C.; Dong, C.; Sperschneider, J.; Jones, A.; Lou, Z.; Zhang, P.; Sandhu, K.; Smith, G.R.; Tibbits, J.; Chagn�, D.; Park, R.F.
      Published 2021
      Austropuccinia psidii, originating in South America, is a globally invasive fungal plant pathogen that causes rust disease on Myrtaceae. Several biotypes are recognized, with the most widely distributed pandemic biotype ...
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    • The differential demographic pattern of coronavirus disease 2019 fatality outside Hubei and from six hospitals in Hubei, China: a descriptive analysis. 

      Lu, Qing-Bin; Zhang, Hai-Yang; Che, Tian-Le; Zhao, Han; Chen, Xi; Li, Rui; Jiang, Wan-Li; Zeng, Hao-Long; Zhang, Xiao-Ai; Long, Hui; Wang, Qiang; Wu, Ming-Qing; Ward, Michael P; Chen, Yue; Zhang, Zhi-Jie; Yang, Yang; Fang, Li-Qun; Liu, Wei
      Published 2021
      BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has been largely controlled in China, to the point where case fatality rate (CFR) data can be comprehensively evaluated. METHODS: Data on confirmed patients, ...
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    • Virome composition in marine fish revealed by meta-transcriptomics 

      Geoghegan, J.L.; Di Giallonardo, F.; Wille, M.; Ortiz-Baez, A.S.; Costa, V.A.; Ghaly, T.; Mifsud, J.C.O.; Turnbull, O.M.H.; Bellwood, D.R.; Williamson, J.E.; Holmes, E.C.
      Published 2021
      Revealing the determinants of virome composition is central to placing disease emergence in a broader evolutionary context. Fish are the most species-rich group of vertebrates and so provide an ideal model system to study ...
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    • Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages B.1.1.7 and P.1 in Italy. 

      Di Giallonardo, Francesca; Puglia, Ilaria; Curini, Valentina; Camma, Cesare; Mangone, Iolanda; Calistri, Paolo; Cobbin, Joanna C A; Holmes, Edward C.; Lorusso, Alessio
      Published 2021
      Italy's second wave of SARS-CoV-2 has hit hard, with more than three million cases and over 100,000 deaths, representing an almost ten-fold increase in the numbers reported by August 2020. Herein, we present an analysis ...
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