• Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies COVID_19 vaccination consensus position statement 

      Hamad, Nada; Ananda_Rajah, Michelle; Gilroy, Nicole; MacIntyre, Raina; Gottlieb, David; Ritchie, David; Harrison, Simon; Kennedy, Glen; Watson, Anne M.; Greenwood, Matthew; Doocey, Richard; Perera, Travis; Spencer, Andrew; Wong, Eric; O'Brien, Tracey; Shaw, Peter; Conyers, Rachel; Milliken, Samuel; Bardy, Peter; Larsen, Stephen; Ho, Phoebe J.; Lai, Hock; Bajel, Ashish; Butler, Jason; Tiley, Campbell; D'Rozario, James; Johnston, Anna; Cochrane, Tara; Mills, Tony; Irving, Ian; Pullon, Humprey; Purtill, Duncan
      Published 2021
      Australia and New Zealand have achieved excellent community control of COVID-19 infection. In light of the imminent COVID-19 vaccination roll out in both countries, representatives of all adult and paediatric allogeneic ...
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    • The changing dynamics of HIV/AIDS during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh -a call for action 

      Hossain, Muhammad Anwar; Zablotska-Manos, Iryna
      Published 2022
      The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every country's health service and plunged refugees into the most desperate conditions. The plight of Rohingya refugees is among the harshest. COVID-19 has severely affected their existing ...
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    • Clinical Teacher Training for health professionals: From blended to online and (maybe) back again? 

      Burgess, Annette; Bansal, Akhil; Clarke, Antonia; Ayton, Tom; Diggele, Christie; Clark, Tyler; Matar, Elie
      Published 2021
      Background The Clinical Teacher Training (CTT) programme was originally developed as an interprofessional, blended learning programme, to support health professionals working across health services within Australia, ...
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    • Domestic Saudi Arabian Travellers' Understanding about COVID-19 and Its Vaccination. 

      Alshahrani, Najim Z; Alshahrani, Sultan M; Farag, Shehata; Rashid, Harunor
      Published 2021
      BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data on Saudi domestic air travellers' understanding regarding COVID-19 and their attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccination. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess Saudi domestic air travellers' ...
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    • The Impact of COVID-19 on the Provision of Adult Cardiac Surgery at a Dedicated COVID Hospital in Australia 

      McNamara, Nicholas; Robinson, Benjamin; Bannon, Paul
      Published 2021
      BACKGROUND: Internationally, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in fewer cardiac surgical procedures being performed and an increase in the proportion of non-elective cases. To date there has been no study ...
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    • Incidence and Outcomes of COVID-19 in People With CKD: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

      Chung, Edmund Ym; Palmer, Suetonia C; Natale, Patrizia; Krishnan, Anoushka; Cooper, Tess E; Saglimbene, Valeria M; Ruospo, Marinella; Au, Eric; Jayanti, Sumedh; Liang, Amy; Deng, Danny Jia Jie; Chui, Juanita; Higgins, Gail Y; Tong, Allison; Wong, Germaine; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando; Hodson, Elisabeth M; Craig, Jonathan C; Strippoli, Giovanni Fm
      Published 2021
      RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disproportionately affects people with chronic diseases such as chronic kidney disease (CKD). We assessed the incidence and outcomes of COVID-19 in people with ...
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    • International Survey of Operative Practices for Otologists and Neurotologists During the COVID-19 Crisis. 

      Ridge, Sarah E; Chari, Divya A; Kozin, Elliott D; Remenschneider, Aaron K; Adunka, Oliver F; Aristegui, Miguel; Chang, Wai Tsz; Cheng, Yen-Fu; Chung, Jong Woo; Cohen, Michael S; Crowson, Matthew G; Golub, Justin S; Handzel, Ophir; Isaacson, Brandon; Iyer, Arunachalam; Kakehata, Seiji; Marchioni, Daniele; Nogueira, Jo�o Fl�vio; Patel, Nirmal; Quesnel, Alicia M; Rivas, Alejandro; Saeed, Shakeel R; Salzman, Richard; Santos, Felipe; Saxby, Alexander J; Tarabichi, Muaaz; Verhaert, Nicolas; Vincent, Robert; Wanna, George; Wolpert, Stephan; Lee, Daniel J
      Published 2021
      OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on operative practices of otology and neurotology providers internationally. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. METHODS: A 78-question survey was distributed ...
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    • MERS-CoV and Its Impact in the Middle East/Arab World 

      Banik, Gouri R.; Kok, Jen; Rashid, Harunor
      Published 2021
      Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that causes a severe lower respiratory tract infection in humans is considered a pandemic threat to the Gulf region. In this chapter, the latest information on MERS-CoV ...
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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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    • Pandemic Viruses at Hajj: Influenza and COVID-19 

      Alfelali, Mohammad; Koul, Parvaiz A.; Rashid, Harunor
      Published 2021
      Hajj is the largest annual mass gathering event on the planet and usually attracts two to three million people from all over the world and is one of the most significant events in the life of a practicing Muslim. Viruses ...
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    • Three-dimensional intracardiac echocardiography and pulmonary embolism 

      Yastrebov, Konstantin; Brunel, Laurencie; Paterson, Hugh; Williams, Zoe; Bannon, Paul
      Published 2020-01-01
      Background Three-dimensional intracardiac echocardiography (3D ICE) with wide azimuthal elevation is a novel technique performed for assessment of cardiac anatomy and guidance of intracardiac procedures. It offers, being ...
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    • Vaccines for COVID-19: where do we stand in 2021? 

      Sharma, Ketaki; Koirala, Archana; Nicolopoulos, Katrina; Chiu, Clayton; Wood, Nicholas; Britton, Philip N
      Published 2021
      As of July 2021, over 3 billion doses of a COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, and there are now 19 COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in at least one country. Several of these have been shown to be highly ...
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    • A zebrafish model of tuberculosis comorbidity and the effects of HIF-activating intervention 

      Oehlers, Stefan; Hortle, Elinor; Cook, Kristina
      Published 2020-01-01
      Comorbidities are an important factor in tuberculosis pathophysiology and treatment but are understudied in animal models. Schild, Mohamed, and Wootton et al. present a zebrafish model of Mycobacterium marinum infection ...
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