Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Adriamycin Nephropathy in BALB/c Mice
Published 2015Chronic proteinuric renal injury is a major cause of end stage renal disease. Adriamycin nephropathy (AN) is a murine model of chronic proteinuric renal disease whereby chemical injury is followed by immune and structural ...Open AccessArticle -
Clinical impact of COVID-19 on patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibition
Published 2021BACKGROUND: Patients with cancer who are infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are more likely to develop severe illness and die compared with those without cancer. The impact of immune ...Article -
An Australian diagnostic microbiology surge response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Published 2021Diagnostic microbiology services form a critical component of the response to infectious disease outbreaks. Like previous respiratory virus pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed significant strains on the standing ...Article -
Potential and demonstrated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexually transmissible infections.
Published 2021PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review considers the potential and demonstrated impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on the sexually transmissible infection (STI)/HIV transmission. RECENT FINDINGS: COVID-19 increases the vulnerability of those ...Article -
Sex bias of females in survival from cancer and infections. Is X the answer?
Published 2021Major differences in survival of men and women from infectious diseases and cancers have been highlighted by death rates from COVID-19 infections. In cancer, attention has been focussed on differences in gene expression ...Article