Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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How COVID-19 changed our food systems and food security paradigms
Published 2020Within a few weeks the world has changed, at the time this text is written (May 2020) more than 3.5 million people have been confirmed cases of COVID-19 and estimations propose up to a hundred times the number of actually ...Article -
Current knowledge of COVID-19 and infection prevention and control strategies in healthcare settings: A global analysis.
Published 2020Objective: In the current absence of a vaccine for COVID-19, public health responses aim to break the chain of infection by focusing on the mode of transmission. We reviewed the current evidence on the transmission dynamics ...Article -
A call for the appropriate application of clinical pharmacological principles in the search for safe and efficacious COVID‐19 (SARS‐COV‐2) treatments
Published 2020Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to remarkable efforts by the scientific communities internationally to identify potential pharmacological treatments through the rapid initiation of clinical trials of novel ...Article -
Australian and New Zealand consensus statement on the management of lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and myeloma during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published 2020The COVID-19 pandemic poses a unique challenge to the care of patients with haematological malignancies. Viral pneumonia is known to cause disproportionately severe disease in patients with cancer, and patients with lymphoma, ...Article -
A novel bat coronavirus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 contains natural insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site of the spike protein
Published 2020Metagenomic analysis identified a novel coronavirus, RmYN02, from R. malayanus. RmYN02 was the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 in most of the virus genome. Two loop deletions in RBD may reduce the binding of RmYN02 with ...Article