School of Life and Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions

    • A Practical Approach to Contemporary Obesity Management 

      Caterson, Ian D.; Sweeting, Arianne N.; Kopelman, Peter G.
      Published 2022
      One of the basic issues is that health care professionals, and particularly medical graduates, have limited training in obesity care and management. Health care professionals may also have limited awareness of nutrition, ...
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    • Understanding STEM academics' responses and resilience to educational reform of academic roles in higher education 

      Ross, Pauline Mary; Scanes, E.; Poronnik, P.; Coates, H.; Locke, W.
      Published 2022
      Background: Across the globe, there have been significant reforms to improve STEM education at all levels. A significant part of this has been teacher reform. While the responses and resilience of STEM teachers to educational ...
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    • Virome characterization of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging pathogens 

      He, Wan-Ting; Hou, Xin; Zhao, Jin; Sun, Jiumeng; He, Haijian; Si, Wei; Wang, Jing; Jiang, Zhiwen; Yan, Ziqing; Xing, Gang; Lu, Meng; Suchard, Marc A.; Ji, Xiang; Gong, Wenjie; He, Biao; Li, Jun; Lemey, Philippe; Guo, Deyin; Tu, Changchun; Holmes, Edward C.; Shi, Mang; Su, Shuo
      Published 2022
      Game animals are wildlife species traded and consumed as food, and potential reservoirs for SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. We performed a meta-transcriptomic analysis of 1941 game animals, representing 18 species and five mammalian ...
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    • Co-infection with SARS-COV-2 Omicron and Delta Variants Revealed by Genomic Surveillance 

      Rockett, Rebecca J; Draper, Jenny; Gall, Mailie; Sim, Eby M; Arnott, Alicia; Agius, Jessica E; Johnson-Mackinnon, Jessica; Martinez, Elena; Drew, Alexander P; Lee, Clement; Ngo, Christine; Ramsperger, Marc; Ginn, Andrew N; Wang, Qinning; Fennell, Michael; Ko, Danny; Huston, Linda; Kairaitis, Lukas; Holmes, Edward C.; O'Sullivan, Matthew N; Chen, Sharon C-A; Kok, Jen; Dwyer, Dominic E; Sintchenko, Vitali
      Published 2022
      We identified the co-infection of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants in two epidemiologically unrelated patients with chronic kidney disease requiring haemodialysis. Both SARS-CoV-2 variants were co-circulating ...
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    • Co-infecting pathogens can contribute to inflammatory responses and severe symptoms in COVID-19 

      Chen, Liping; Shen, Lihan; Wu, Weichen; Guan, Wenda; Zhou, Jinchao; Luo, Gengyan; Chen, Qimin; Zhou, Hongxia; Deng, Zhenxuan; Chen, Yaoqing; Zhao, Wenjing; Jin, Wenxiang; Qiu, Minshan; Zheng, Qianwei; Wang, Yutao; Liu, Chen; Bai, Xiangxiang; Guo, Deyin; Holmes, Edward C.; Zhong, Nanshan; Shi, Mang; Yang, Zifeng
      Published 2022
      Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic is posing a major challenge to public health on a global scale. While it is generally believed that severe COVID-19 results from over-expression of inflammatory mediators (i.e., a ...
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