By Dr Abrar Ahmad Chughtai

Book Chapters

MacIntyre R; Chughtai A, 2017, 'Facemasks and Respirators for the Prevention of Infection in Healthcare and Community Settings', in Handbook of Respiratory Protection Safeguarding Against Current and Emerging Hazards, CRC Press, pp. 338 - 375

MacIntyre CR; Chughtai AA, 2017, 'Facemasks and respirators for the prevention of infection in healthcare and community settings', in Handbook of Respiratory Protection: Safeguarding Against Current and Emerging Hazards, pp. 335 - 386

Raina MacIntyre C; Ahmad Chughtai A, 2017, 'Facemasks and Respirators for the Prevention of Infection in Healthcare and Community Settings', in Handbook of Respiratory Protection, CRC Press, pp. 335 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351109079-16

Journal articles

Chughtai AA; Spotswood N; Strunk T; Parmar T; Schindler T; Popat H; Chow SSW; Lui K; Morris S; Schmidt P; Chauhan M; Korostenski L; Sharp M; Resnick S; Thomas R; Strunk T; Stack J; Birch P; Oliver T; Casalaz D; Holberton J; Stewart A; Hunt R; Tan K; Cooke L; Downe L; Davis J; Stewart M; Berry A; Hickey L; Kgosiemang M; Paoli TD; Bolisetty S; Lui K; Staub E; Greenhalgh M; Koorts P; Jacobs S; Keir A; Collins C; Numa A; Carlisle H; Badawi N; Popat H; Alcock G; Luig M; Kent A; Dixon B; Darlow B; Fowlie P; Kelly A; Bloomfield G; Buksh M; Battin M; Boom JVD; Miller H; Allermo-Fletcher A; Jacobs C; Rajadurai VS; Lam S; Chambers G; Barker D; Dhawan A; Merida N; Harrison D, 2025, 'Association between Congenital Anomalies and Late-Onset Bacterial Infections in Neonates Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Australia and New Zealand: A Population-Based Cohort Study', Neonatology, 122, pp. 95 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000540276

Honeyman D; Gurdasani D; Notaras A; Akhtar Z; Edgeworth J; Moa A; Chughtai AA; Quigley A; Lim S; MacIntyre CR, 2025, 'Global Epidemiology of Outbreaks of Unknown Cause Identified by Open-Source Intelligence, 2020–2022', Emerging Infectious Diseases, 31, pp. 298 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.240533

Zhang P; Raina MacIntyre C; Chen X; Chughtai AA, 2025, 'Application of the Modified Grunow-Finke Risk Assessment Tool to the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979', Military Medicine, 190, pp. e59 - e66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usae289

Macintyre CR; Chughtai AA; Kunasekaran M; Tawfiq E; Greenhalgh T, 2025, 'The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings', BMJ, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-078573

Gurdasani D; Trent M; Ziauddeen H; Mnatzaganian E; Turville S; Chen X; Kunasekaran MP; Chughtai AA; Moa A; Mceniery J; Greenhalgh T; Macintyre CR, 2024, 'Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children: evidence for and against causal relationships with SARS-CoV-2, HAdv and AAV2', BMJ Paediatrics Open, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-002410

Alatise MA; Narasimhan P; Gbadamosi MD; Chughtai AA, 2024, 'Accessibility and TB patient satisfaction in Nigeria', International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 28, pp. 585 - 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.24.0314

Kalyar F; Chen X; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2024, 'Origin of the H1N1 (Russian influenza) pandemic of 1977—A risk assessment using the modified Grunow–Finke tool (mGFT)', Risk Analysis, 44, pp. 2696 - 2706, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.14343

Qureshi MO; Harris P; Jegasothy E; Seale H; Chughtai A; Quinlan M, 2024, 'Transport industry workforce risk and exposure to COVID-19 and other related respiratory pandemic diseases: A scoping review', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35, pp. 518 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2024.49

Chen X; Kalyar F; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2024, 'Use of a risk assessment tool to determine the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)', Risk Analysis, 44, pp. 1896 - 1906, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.14291

Aleem MA; Chughtai AA; Rahman B; Akhtar Z; Chowdhury F; Qadri F; Macintyre CR, 2024, 'Prevalence of influenza and other acute respiratory illnesses in patients with acute myocardial infarction in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study', Health Science Reports, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.2234

Greenhalgh T; MacIntyre CR; Baker MG; Bhattacharjee S; Chughtai AA; Fisman D; Kunasekaran M; Kvalsvig A; Lupton D; Oliver M; Tawfiq E; Ungrin M; Vipond J, 2024, 'Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review', Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 37, pp. e00124 - e00123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

Chen R; Kunasekaran M; Moa A; Lim S; Chughtai AA; Kpozehouen EB; Chen X; Quigley A; Macintyre CR, 2024, 'Respiratory illness of unknown cause as an early signal of the COVID-19 pandemic', Global Biosecurity, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.253

Chughtai AA; He WQ; Liu B, 2023, 'Associations between severe and notifiable respiratory infections during the first trimester of pregnancy and congenital anomalies at birth: a register-based cohort study', BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05514-8

Seale H; Trent M; Marks GB; Shah S; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2023, 'Exploring the use of masks for protection against the effects of wildfire smoke among people with preexisting respiratory conditions', BMC Public Health, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17274-3

Nair SP; Quigley AL; Moa A; Chughtai AA; Macintyre CR, 2023, 'Monitoring the burden of COVID-19 and impact of hospital transfer policies on Australian aged-care residents in residential aged-care facilities in 2020', BMC Geriatrics, 23, pp. 507, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04154-z

Aleem MA; Macintyre CR; Rahman B; Islam AKMM; Akhtar Z; Chowdhury F; Qadri F; Chughtai AA, 2023, 'Association of recent respiratory illness and influenza with acute myocardial infarction among the Bangladeshi population: A case-control study', Epidemiology and Infection, 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268823001863

Chughtai AA; Kodama C; Joshi R; Tayyab M; Paiman MA; Abubakar A, 2023, 'Control of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic and vector-borne diseases in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region', Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2023.1240420

Qureshi M; Seale H; Chughtai A; Jegasothy E; Quinlan M; Harris P, 2023, 'Scoping review of transport workforce exposure to COVID-19 and other respiratory pandemic diseases', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 33

Qureshi MO; Chughtai AA; Seale H, 2022, 'Recommendations related to occupational infection prevention and control training to protect healthcare workers from infectious diseases: a scoping review of infection prevention and control guidelines', BMC Health Services Research, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07673-4

Kunasekaran M; Moa A; Hooshmand E; Trent M; Poulos CJ; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Raina MacIntyre C, 2022, 'Effectiveness estimates for enhanced trivalent influenza vaccines in an aged care summer outbreak', Vaccine, 40, pp. 7170 - 7175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.06.018

Kunasekaran M; Poulos CJ; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Factors associated with repeated influenza vaccine uptake among aged care staff in an Australian sample from 2017 to 2019', Vaccine, 40, pp. 7238 - 7246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.08.015

Chughtai AA; Mohammed S; Al Ariqi L; McCarron M; Bresee J; Abubakar A; Khan W, 2022, 'Development of a road map to scale up the uptake and utilization of influenza vaccine in 22 countries of Eastern Mediterranean Region', Vaccine, 40, pp. 6558 - 6565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.09.051

Kunasekaran MP; Mongha A; Chughtai AA; Poulos CJ; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Policy Analysis for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Aged Care', Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23, pp. 1741.e1 - 1741.e18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2022.06.002

Qureshi MO; Chughtai AA; Islam MS; Tuckerman J; Seale H, 2022, 'Examining the discourse regarding the delivery of occupational infection prevention and control training to healthcare workers: A scoping review of pandemic plans of 23 countries', BMJ Open, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061850

Kunasekaran MP; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Poulos CJ; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Influenza cases in nine aged care facilities in Sydney, Australia over a three-year surveillance period, 2018—2020', Vaccine, 40, pp. 4253 - 4261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.048

Al Ariqi L; Buliva E; Chughtai AA; Barakat A; Kodama C; Khan W; Tayyab M; El Nossery S; Aman A; El-Maghraby T; Elkholy A; Abubakar A, 2022, 'How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region', BMJ Global Health, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009826

Ankomah AA; Moa A; Chughtai AA, 2022, 'The long road of pandemic vaccine development to rollout: A systematic review on the lessons learnt from the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic', American Journal of Infection Control, 50, pp. 735 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.01.026

Quigley AL; Trent M; Seale H; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Cross-sectional survey of changes in knowledge, attitudes and practice of mask use in Sydney and Melbourne during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic', BMJ Open, 12, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057860

Bahl P; Doolan C; De Silva C; Chughtai AA; Bourouiba L; Macintyre CR, 2022, 'Airborne or Droplet Precautions for Health Workers Treating Coronavirus Disease 2019?', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 225, pp. 1561 - 1568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa189

Quigley A; Stone H; Nguyen PY; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'COVID-19 outbreaks in aged-care facilities in Australia', Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 16, pp. 429 - 437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12942

Qureshi M; Chughtai A; Seale H, 2022, 'Supporting the Delivery of Infection Prevention and Control Training to Healthcare Workers: Insights from the Sector', Healthcare (Switzerland), 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050936

Trent M; Seale H; Chughtai AA; Salmon D; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Trust in government, intention to vaccinate and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A comparative survey of five large cities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia', Vaccine, 40, pp. 2498 - 2505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.06.048

Kunasekaran M; Quigley A; Rahman B; Chughtai AA; Heslop DJ; Poulos CJ; Macintyre CR, 2022, 'Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rates in Aged Care-A Meta-Analysis', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9, pp. ofac033, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac033

Islam MS; Tarannum S; Banu S; Chowdhury KIA; Nazneen A; Chughtai AA; Seale H, 2022, 'Preparedness of tertiary care hospitals to implement the national TB infection prevention and control guidelines in Bangladesh: A qualitative exploration', PLoS ONE, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263115

Islam MS; Banu S; Tarannum S; Chowdhury KIA; Nazneen A; Islam MT; Shafique SMZ; Islam SMH; Chughtai AA; Seale H, 2022, 'Examining pulmonary TB patient management and healthcare workers exposures in two public tertiary care hospitals, Bangladesh', PLOS Global Public Health, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000064

Kalyar F; Chen X; Kunasekaran M; Moa A; Chughtai A; Maclntyre R; MacIntyre R, 2022, 'An unprecedented global resurgence of monkeypox', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/GBIO.170

Quigley A; Nguyen PY; Stone H; Heslop DJ; Chughtai AA; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Estimated Mask Use and Temporal Relationship to COVID-19 Epidemiology of Black Lives Matter Protests in 12 Cities', Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01308-4

Raphael M; Adam DC; Chughtai AA; Kelly-Hanku A; Hutchinson D; Lai YA; Macintyre CR, 2022, 'Poliomyelitis Epidemic in Papua New Guinea, 2018', Global Biosecurity, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.164

Chughtai AA; Najmi H; Jamal SZ; Iqbal MP; Baig LA; Shahid F, 2022, 'SYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE HEART FAILURE IN A LARGE TERTIARY CARE CARDIOLOGY HOSPITAL', Pakistan Heart Journal, 55, pp. 253 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.47144/phj.v55i3.2325

Bhattacharjee S; Bahl P; Chughtai AA; Heslop D; MacIntyre CR, 2022, 'Face masks and respirators: Towards sustainable materials and technologies to overcome the shortcomings and challenges', NANO SELECT, 3, pp. 1355 - 1381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nano.202200101

Iqbal MP; Uebel K; Islam MS; Jabbour V; Hall J; Chughtai AA; Khan NUS, 2021, 'EXPLORING THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL STUDENTS REGARDING INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN HOSPITALS: A PILOT STUDY', Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 71, pp. 2236 - 2241, http://dx.doi.org/10.51253/PAFMJ.V71I6.6086

Bahl P; De Silva C; MacIntyre CR; Bhattacharjee S; Chughtai AA; Doolan C, 2021, 'Flow dynamics of droplets expelled during sneezing', Physics of Fluids, 33, pp. 111901, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0067609

Quigley AL; Stone H; Yen Nguyen P; Chughtai AA; Raina MacIntyre C; MacIntyre R; Nguyen P, 2021, 'Erratum to “Estimating the burden of COVID-19 on the Australian healthcare workers and health system during the first six months of the pandemic” [International Journal of Nursing Studies, 114 (2021), 103811] (International Journal of Nursing Studies (2021) 114, (S0020748920302972), (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103811))', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 121, pp. 104031, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104031

Raina MacIntyre C; Nguyen PY; Trent M; Seale H; Chughtai AA; Shah S; Marks GB, 2021, 'Adverse health effects in people with and without preexisting respiratory conditions during bushfire smoke exposure in the 2019/2020 australian summer', American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 204, pp. 368 - 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202012-4471LE

Bahl P; De Silva C; MacIntyre CR; Chughtai AA; Doolan C, 2021, 'Towards capturing a database of respiratory exhalations from flow visualisations', 14th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.18409/ispiv.v1i1.74

Bhattacharjee S; Joshi R; Chughtai A; Heslop D; Wilcox M; MacIntyre R, 2021, 'Graphene and nanoparticles coated antimicrobial and biocompatible cotton/silk fabrics for protective clothing', ACS Applied Bio Materials

Bhattacharjee S; Bahl P; De Silva C; Doolan C; Chughtai AA; Heslop D; Macintyre CR, 2021, 'Experimental Evidence for the Optimal Design of a High-Performing Cloth Mask', ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 7, pp. 2791 - 2802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00368

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