Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions

    • The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why? 

      Van Damme, Wim; Dahake, Ritwik; Delamou, Alexandre; Ingelbeen, Brecht; Wouters, Edwin; Vanham, Guido; van de Pas, Remco; Dossou, Jean-Paul; Ir, Por; Abimbola, Seye; Van der Borght, Stefaan; Devadasan, Narayanan; Bloom, Gerald; Van Engelgem, Ian; Ahmed, Mohamed Ali Ag; Kiendrébéogo, Joël Arthur; Verdonck, Kristien; De Brouwere, Vincent; Bello, Kéfilath; Kloos, Helmut; Aaby, Peter; Kalk, Andreas; Al-Awlaqi, Sameh; Prashanth, N S; Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean Jacques; Mbala, Placide; Ahuka-Mundeke, Steve; Assefa, Yibeltal
      Published 2020
      It is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic. Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread ...
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    • Healthcare Workers Bioresource: Study outline and baseline characteristics of a prospective healthcare worker cohort to study immune protection and pathogenesis in COVID-19 

      Augusto, João B; Menacho, Katia; Andiapen, Mervyn; Bowles, Ruth; Burton, Maudrian; Welch, Sophie; Bhuva, Anish N; Seraphim, Andreas; Pade, Corinna; Joy, George; Jensen, Melanie; Davies, Rhodri H; Captur, Gabriella; Fontana, Marianna; Montgomery, Hugh; O'Brien, Ben; Hingorani, Aroon D; Cutino-Moguel, Teresa; McKnight, Áine; Abbass, Hakam; Alfarih, Mashael; Alldis, Zoe; Baca, Georgina L; Boulter, Alex; Bracken, Olivia V; Bullock, Natalie; Champion, Nicola; Chan, Carmen; Couto-Parada, Xose; Dieobi-Anene, Keenan; Feehan, Karen; Figtree, Gemma; Figtree, Melanie C; Finlay, Malcolm; Forooghi, Nasim; Gibbons, Joseph M; Griffiths, Peter; Hamblin, Matt; Howes, Lee; Itua, Ivie; Jones, Meleri; Jardim, Victor; Kapil, Vikas; Lee, Wing-Yiu Jason; Mandadapu, Vineela; Mfuko, Celina; Mitchelmore, Oliver; Palma, Susana; Patel, Kush; Petersen, Steffen E; Piniera, Brian; Raine, Rosalind; Rapala, Alicja; Richards, Amy; Sambile, Genine; de Sousa, Jorge Couto; Sugimoto, Michelle; Thornton, George D; Artico, Jessica; Zahedi, Dan; Parker, Ruth; Robathan, Mathew; Hickling, Lauren M; Ntusi, Ntobeko; Semper, Amanda; Brooks, Tim; Jones, Jessica; Tucker, Art; Veerapen, Jessry; Vijayakumar, Mohit; Wodehouse, Theresa; Wynne, Lucinda; Treibel, Thomas A; Noursadeghi, Mahdad; Manisty, Charlotte; Moon, James C
      Published 2020
      "Background: Most biomedical research has focused on sampling COVID-19 patients presenting to hospital with advanced disease, with less focus on the asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic. We established a bioresource with serial ...
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    • Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding 

      Lu, Roujian; Zhao, Xiang; Li, Juan; Niu, Peihua; Yang, Bo; Wu, Honglong; Wang, Wenling; Song, Hao; Huang, Baoying; Zhu, Na; Bi, Yuhai; Ma, Xuejun; Zhan, Faxian; Wang, Liang; Hu, Tao; Zhou, Hong; Hu, Zhenhong; Zhou, Weimin; Zhao, Li; Chen, Jing; Meng, Yao; Wang, Ji; Lin, Yang; Yuan, Jianying; Xie, Zhihao; Ma, Jinmin; Liu, William J; Wang, Dayan; Xu, Wenbo; Holmes, Edward C.; Gao, George F; Wu, Guizhen; Chen, Weijun; Shi, Weifeng; Tan, Wenjie
      Published 2020
      Background: In late December, 2019, patients presenting with viral pneumonia due to an unidentified microbial agent were reported in Wuhan, China. A novel coronavirus was subsequently identified as the causative pathogen, ...
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    • Modelling insights into the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Meehan, Michael T; Rojas, Diana P; Adekunle, Adeshina I; Adegboye, Oyelola A; Caldwell, Jamie M; Turek, Evelyn; Williams, Bridget M; Marais, Ben J; Trauer, James M; McBryde, Emma S
      Published 2020
      Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a newly emerged infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th ...
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    • Perfecting detection through education 

      Suleiman, M.E.; Rickard, M.; Brennan, P.C.
      Published 2020
      Introduction: Radiologists’ image reading skills vary, such variations in image interpretations can influence the effectiveness of the early treatment of disease and may have important clinical and economic implications. ...
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