School of Medical Sciences: Recent submissions

    • Relating in vitro neutralisation level and protection in the CVnCoV (CUREVAC) trial 

      Cromer, Deborah; Reynaldi, Arnold; Steain, Megan; Triccas, James A; Davenport, Miles P; Khoury, David S
      Published 2021
      Abstract A recent study analysed the relationship between neutralising antibody response and protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection across eight vaccine platforms 1 . The efficacy results from a phase 2b/3 trial of a ninth ...
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    • A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference 

      Calleja, Neville; AbdAllah, AbdelHalim; Abad, Neetu; Ahmed, Naglaa; Albarracin, Dolores; Altieri, Elena; Anoko, Julienne N; Arcos, Ruben; Azlan, Arina Anis; Bayer, Judit; Bechmann, Anja; Bezbaruah, Supriya; Briand, Sylvie C; Brooks, Ian; Bucci, Lucie M; Burzo, Stefano; Czerniak, Christine; De Domenico, Manlio; Dunn, Adam G; Ecker, Ullrich K H; Espinosa, Laura; Francois, Camille; Gradon, Kacper; Gruzd, Anatoliy; Gülgün, Beste Sultan; Haydarov, Rustam; Hurley, Cherstyn; Astuti, Santi Indra; Ishizumi, Atsuyoshi; Johnson, Neil; Johnson Restrepo, Dylan; Kajimoto, Masato; Koyuncu, Aybüke; Kulkarni, Shibani; Lamichhane, Jaya; Lewis, Rosamund; Mahajan, Avichal; Mandil, Ahmed; McAweeney, Erin; Messer, Melanie; Moy, Wesley; Ndumbi Ngamala, Patricia; Nguyen, Tim; Nunn, Mark; Omer, Saad B; Pagliari, Claudia; Patel, Palak; Phuong, Lynette; Prybylski, Dimitri; Rashidian, Arash; Rempel, Emily; Rubinelli, Sara; Sacco, PierLuigi; Schneider, Anton; Shu, Kai; Smith, Melanie; Sufehmi, Harry; Tangcharoensathien, Viroj; Terry, Robert; Thacker, Naveen; Trewinnard, Tom; Turner, Shannon; Tworek, Heidi; Uakkas, Saad; Vraga, Emily; Wardle, Claire; Wasserman, Herman; Wilhelm, Elisabeth; Würz, Andrea; Yau, Brian; Zhou, Lei; Purnat, Tina D
      Published 2021
      Background: An infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during an acute public health event. It leads to confusion, risk-taking, and behaviors that can ...
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    • IFI27 transcription is an early predictor for COVID-19 outcomes; a multi-cohort observational study 

      Shojaei, Maryam; Shamshirian, Amir; Monkman, James; Grice, Laura; Tran, Minh; Tan, Chin Wee; Rossi, Gustavo Rodrigues; McCulloch, Timothy R.; Nalos, Marek; Chew, Keng Yih; Zhu, Yanshan; Xia, Yao; Wells, Timothy J.; Senegaglia, Alexandra Cristina; Rebelatto, Carmen Lúcia Kuniyoshi; Franck, Claudio Luciano; dos Santos, Anna Flavia Ribeiro; de Noronha, Lucia; Motamen, Sepideh; Valadan, Reza; Amjadi, Omolbanin; Gogna, Rajan; Madan, Esha; Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza; Lamperti, Liliana; Zuñiga, Felipe; Nova-Lamperti, Estefania; Labarca, Gonzalo; Knippenberg, Ben; Herwanto, Velma; Wang, Ya; Phu, Amy; Chew, Tracy; Kwan, Timothy; Kim, Karan; Teoh, Sally; Pelaia, Tiana M; Kuan, Win Sen; Jee, Yvette; Iredell, Jon; O’Byrne, Ken; Fraser, John F.; Davis, Melissa J.; Belz, Gabrielle; Warkiani, Majid; Gallo, Carlos Salomon; Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, Fernando; Nguyen, Quan; Mclean, Anthony; Kulasinghe, Arutha; Short, Kirsty R.; Tang, Benjamin
      Published 2021
      Robust biomarkers that predict disease outcomes amongst COVID-19 patients are necessary for both patient triage and resource prioritisation. Numerous candidate biomarkers have been proposed for COVID-19. However, at present, ...
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    • Sequence dynamics of three influenza A virus strains grown in different MDCK cell lines, including those expressing different sialic acid receptors 

      Barnard, Karen N.; Wasik, Brian R.; Alford, Brynn K.; Hayward, Jessica J.; Weichert, Wendy S.; Voorhees, Ian E. H.; Holmes, Edward C.; Parrish, Colin R.
      Published 2021
      Viruses are often cultured in cell lines for research and vaccine development, and those often differ from the natural hosts or tissues. Cell lines can also differ in the presence of virus receptors, such as the sialic ...
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    • Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2 

      Wagner, Caroline E.; Saad-Roy, Chadi M.; Morris, Sinead E.; Baker, Rachel E.; Mina, Michael J.; Farrar, Jeremy; Holmes, Edward C.; Pybus, Oliver G.; Graham, Andrea L.; Emanuel, Ezekiel J.; Levin, Simon A.; Metcalf, C. Jessica E.; Grenfell, Bryan T.
      Published 2021
      Vaccines provide powerful tools to mitigate the enormous public health and economic costs that the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic continues to exert globally, yet vaccine distribution remains unequal between countries. To ...
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