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Journal articles
2020, 'Drivers of hospitalization in atrial fibrillation: A contemporary review', Heart Rhythm, 17, pp. 1991 - 1999, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2020.06.015
,2020, 'Face coverings and mask to minimise droplet dispersion and aerosolisation: A video case study', Thorax, 75, pp. 1024 - 1025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215748
,2020, 'Masks in the community are an effective strategy: Author's response to Haslam et al (2020)', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103751
,2020, 'Influenza vaccine: Routine secondary prevention for patients with cardiovascular disease?', Annals of Internal Medicine, 173, pp. 660 - 661, http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/M20-5810
,2020, 'The potential impact of a recent measles epidemic on COVID-19 in Samoa', BMC Infectious Diseases, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05469-7
,2020, 'Case isolation, contact tracing, and physical distancing are pillars of COVID-19 pandemic control, not optional choices', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20, pp. 1105 - 1106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30512-0
,2020, 'Effectiveness of Cloth Masks for Protection against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2', Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/EID2610.200948
,2020, 'Epidemiology of paediatric Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and implications for the control of coronavirus virus disease 2019', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 56, pp. 1561 - 1564, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15014
,2020, 'The impact of influenza vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence and lessons for public health policies', Vaccine, 38, pp. 6485 - 6486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.08.024
,2020, 'Contamination and washing of cloth masks and risk of infection among hospital health workers in Vietnam: a post hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial', BMJ open, 10, pp. e042045, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042045
,2020, 'Last-resort strategies during mask shortages: Optimal design features of cloth masks and decontamination of disposable masks during the COVID-19 pandemic', BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 7, pp. e000698, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000698
,2020, 'Current COVID-19 guidelines for respiratory protection of health care workers are inadequate', Medical Journal of Australia, 213, pp. 251 - 252.e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50752
,2020, 'Elimination of COVID-19: what would it look like and is it possible?', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20, pp. 1005 - 1007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30633-2
,2020, 'Respiratory protection during the COVID-19 pandemic – the evidence shows it works: Author's response to Mandal et al., 2020.', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103717
,2020, 'Tailored intelligence to detect unusual epidemic activity following the explosion at Vector, Russia', Global Biosecurity, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.85
,2020, 'Reduced Graphene Oxide and Nanoparticles Incorporated Durable Electro-Conductive Silk Fabrics', Advanced Materials Interfaces
,2020, 'A rapid systematic review of the efficacy of face masks and respirators against coronaviruses and other respiratory transmissible viruses for the community, healthcare workers and sick patients', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103629
,2020, 'An experimental framework to capture the flow dynamics of droplets expelled by a sneeze', Experiments in Fluids, 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-020-03008-3
,2020, 'Systematic Review and Evaluation of Mathematical Attack Models of Human Inhalational Anthrax for Supporting Public Health Decision Making and Response', Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 35, pp. 412 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20000734
,2020, 'Travel health risk perceptions of Chinese international students in Australia – Implications for COVID-19', Infection, Disease and Health, 25, pp. 197 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2020.03.002
,2020, 'Basic epidemiological parameter values from data of real-world in mega-cities: The characteristics of COVID-19 in Beijing, China', BMC Infectious Diseases, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05251-9
,2020, 'Response to comment on: Parental opinions towards the “No Jab, No Pay” policy in Australia', Vaccine, 38, pp. 5090, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.045
,2020, 'A model of influenza infection and vaccination in children aged under 5 years in Beijing, China', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 16, pp. 1685 - 1690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1705692
,2020, 'Using Open-source Intelligence to Identify Early Signals of COVID-19 in Indonesia (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.22085
,2020, 'Effectiveness of acellular pertussis vaccine in older adults: Nested matched case-control study', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71, pp. 340 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz821
,2020, 'Human coronavirus data from four clinical trials of masks and respirators', International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 96, pp. 631 - 633, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.092
,2020, 'Mathematical assessment of the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on curtailing the 2019 novel Coronavirus', Mathematical Biosciences, 325, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108364
,2020, 'Reevaluating the risk of smallpox reemergence', Military Medicine, 185, pp. E952 - E957, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaa084
,2020, 'Using open-source intelligence to detect early signals of COVID-19 in China: Descriptive study', JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/18939
,2020, 'Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection for prevention of COVID-19', The Lancet, 395, pp. 1950 - 1951, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31183-1
,2020, 'A rapid risk analysis tool to prioritise response to infectious disease outbreaks', BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002327
,2020, 'Public health, health systems and palliation planning for COVID-19 on an exponential timeline', Medical Journal of Australia, 212, pp. 440 - 442.e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50592
,2020, 'Reduction of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in households by face mask use, disinfection and social distancing: a cohort study in Beijing, China', BMJ Global Health, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002794
,2020, 'Application of a Risk Analysis Tool to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Outbreak in Saudi Arabia', Risk Analysis, 40, pp. 915 - 925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.13472
,2020, 'Monitoring events with application to syndromic surveillance using social media data', Engineering Reports, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eng2.12152
,2020, 'Policies on the use of respiratory protection for hospital health workers to protect from coronavirus disease (COVID-19)', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103567
,2020, 'Serological immunity to smallpox in New South Wales, Australia', Viruses, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12050554
,2020, 'The phylogeography of MERS-CoV in hospital outbreak-associated cases compared to sporadic cases in Saudi Arabia', Viruses, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12050540
,2020, 'Towards understanding cybersecurity capability in Australian healthcare organisations: A systematic review of recent trends, threats and mitigation', Intelligence and National Security, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1752459
,2020, 'Estimated hospitalisations attributable to seasonal and pandemic influenza in Australia: 2001- 2013.', PLoS One, 15, pp. e0230705. - e0230705., http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230705
,2020, 'Community universal face mask use during the COVID 19 pandemic-from households to travellers and public spaces', Journal of Travel Medicine, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taaa056
,2020, 'Using Open-Source Intelligence to Detect Early Signals of COVID-19 in China: Descriptive Study (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.18939
,2020, 'Risk mitigation of inadvertent exposure to biothreats to front line law enforcement', Global Biosecurity, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.59
,2020, 'Influenza vaccine coverage and predictors of vaccination among aged care workers in Sydney Australia', Vaccine, 38, pp. 1968 - 1974, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.01.004
,2020, 'Impairment of left atrial function and cryptogenic stroke: Potential insights in the pathophysiology of stroke in the young', IJC Heart and Vasculature, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2019.100454
,2020, 'Public awareness, acceptability and risk perception about infectious diseases dual-use research of concern: A cross-sectional survey', BMJ Open, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029134
,2020, 'Automated monitoring of tweets for early detection of the 2014 Ebola epidemic', PLoS ONE, 15, pp. e0230322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230322
,2020, 'Global spread of COVID-19 and pandemic potential', Global Biosecurity, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.55
,2020, 'Harnessing Tweets for Early Detection of an Acute Disease Event', Epidemiology, 31, pp. 90 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001133
,2020, 'Impact of the CoviD-19 epidemic on a pan-Asian academic oncology clinical trial', JCO Global Oncology, 6, pp. 585 - 588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/GO.20.00072
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