School of Life and Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions

    • SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse. 

      Konings, Frank; Perkins, Mark D; Kuhn, Jens H; Pallen, Mark J; Alm, Erik J; Archer, Brett N; Barakat, Amal; Bedford, Trevor; Bhiman, Jinal N; Caly, Leon; Carter, Lisa L; Cullinane, Anne; de Oliveira, Tulio; Druce, Julian; El Masry, Ihab; Evans, Roger; Gao, George F; Gorbalenya, Alexander E; Hamblion, Esther; Herring, Belinda L; Hodcroft, Emma; Holmes, Edward C.; Kakkar, Manish; Khare, Shagun; Koopmans, Marion P G; Korber, Bette; Leite, Juliana; MacCannell, Duncan; Marklewitz, Marco; Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian; Rico, Jairo Andres Mendez; Munster, Vincent J; Neher, Richard; Munnink, Bas Oude; Pavlin, Boris I; Peiris, Malik; Poon, Leo; Pybus, Oliver; Rambaut, Andrew; Resende, Paola; Subissi, Lorenzo; Thiel, Volker; Tong, Suxiang; van der Werf, Sylvie; von Gottberg, Anne; Ziebuhr, John; Van Kerkhove, Maria D
      Published 2021
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    • 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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