Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Clinical and public health utility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequencing
Published 2021The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) every year, with 1.5 million deaths attributed to TB in 2019 (World Health Organization, 2020). The majority of the ...Article -
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Ophthalmology Medical Student Teaching: Educational Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions
Published 2021Graduate medical education (GME) in ophthalmology has faced and overcome many challenges over the past years and 2020 has been a game-changing year. Although the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) ...Article -
Systematic review: bioethical implications for COVID-19 research in low prevalence countries, a distinctly different set of problems
Published 2021BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary challenges to worldwide healthcare systems, however, prevalence remains low in some countries. While the challenges of conducting research in high-prevalence ...Article -
Virtual Health Care for Community Management of Patients With COVID-19 in Australia: Observational Cohort Study
Published 2021BACKGROUND: Australia has successfully controlled the COVID-19 pandemic. Similar to other high-income countries, Australia has extensively used telehealth services. Virtual health care, including telemedicine in combination ...Article -
Interferon-_3 exacerbates the inflammatory response to microbial ligands: Implications for SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis
Published 2021ntroduction: Interferon lambdas (IFN-λs) are antiviral cytokines that restrict pathogen infection and dissemination at barrier surfaces. Controlled expression of IFN-λs efficiently eliminates acute infections by activating ...Article