Sydney Medical School: Recent submissions

    • SARS-CoV-2 variants: levels of neutralisation required for protective immunity 

      Cromer, Deborah; Steain, Megan; Reynaldi, Arnold; Schlub, Timothy E; Wheatley, Adam K; Juno, Jennifer A; Kent, Stephen J; Triccas, James A; Khoury, David S; Davenport, Miles P
      Published 2021
      Abstract A number of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) have been identified that partially escape serum neutralisation activity elicited by current vaccines. Recent studies have also shown that vaccines demonstrate ...
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    • Special Issue: Travel and Tropical Medicine 

      Rashid, Harunor; Badahdah, Al-Mamoon; Khatami, Ameneh
      Published 2021
      Historically, travel is known to be associated with an amplified risk of acquisition and transmission of infectious diseases, including pandemics [...].
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    • Senior medical students as assistants in medicine in COVID-19 crisis: a realist evaluation protocol 

      Monrouxe, Lynn V; Hockey, Peter; Khanna, Priya; Klinner, Christiane; Mogensen, Lise; O'Mara, Deborah A; Roach, Abbey; Tobin, Stephen; Davids, Jennifer Ann
      Published 2021
      INTRODUCTION: The assistant in medicine is a new and paid role for final-year medical students that has been established in New South Wales, Australia, as part of the surge workforce management response to the COVID-19 ...
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    • Combining a convolutional neural network with autoencoders to predict the survival chance of COVID-19 patients 

      Khozeimeh, Fahime; Sharifrazi, Danial; Izadi, Navid Hoseini; Joloudari, Javad Hassannataj; Shoeibi, Afshin; Alizadehsani, Roohallah; Gorriz, Juan M.; Hussain, Sadiq; Sani, Zahra Alizadeh; Moosaei, Hossein; Khosravi, Abbas; Nahavandi, Saeid; Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful
      Published 2021
      COVID-19 has caused many deaths worldwide. The automation of the diagnosis of this virus is highly desired. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding classification performance on image datasets. To date, ...
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    • Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions 

      Eden, John-Sebastian; Sikazwe, Chisha; Xie, Ruopeng; Deng, Yi-Mo; Sullivan, Sheena G.; Michie, Alice; Levy, Avram; Cutmore, Elena; Blyth, Christopher C; Britton, Philip N; Crawford, Nigel; Dong, Xiaomin; Dwyer, Dominic E.; Edwards, Kimberly M.; Horsburgh, Bethany A.; Foley, David; Kennedy, Karina; Minney-Smith, Cara; Speers, David; Tulloch, Rachel L.; Holmes, Edward C.; Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna; Smith, David W.; Kok, Jen; Barr, Ian G.
      Published 2021
      Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI) with the most severe disease in the young and elderly1,2. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and travel restrictions ...
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