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Journal articles
2016, 'Persistence of Ebola virus in various body fluids during convalescence: Evidence and implications for disease transmission and control', Epidemiology and Infection, 144, pp. 1652 - 1660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268816000054
,2016, 'Improving the uptake of pre-travel health advice amongst migrant Australians: Exploring the attitudes of primary care providers and migrant community groups', BMC Infectious Diseases, 16, pp. 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1479-1
,2016, 'Ebola outbreak in West Africa: considerations for strengthening Australia's international health emergency response', MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA, 204, pp. 258 - +, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja16.00018
,2016, 'Ebola outbreak in west Africa: Considerations for strengthening Australia’s international health emergency response: It is time for a common vision and strategy for deploying australian expertise to international public health emergencies', Medical Journal of Australia, 204, pp. 258 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mjal6.00018
,2016, 'Recurrence and reinfection-a new paradigm for the management of Ebola virus disease', International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 43, pp. 58 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2015.12.011
,2016, 'Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, Midwestern United States', Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22, pp. 138 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2201.151053
,2015, 'Do corticosteroids reduce the mortality of influenza A (H1N1) infection? A meta-analysis', Critical Care, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-015-0764-5
,2015, 'Why should influenza be a public health priority?', Vaccine, 33, pp. 7022 - 7025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.08.049
,2015, 'Alcopops, taxation and harm: A segmented time series analysis of emergency department presentations', BMC Public Health, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1769-3
,2015, 'Knowledge and attitudes towards rotavirus diarrhea and the vaccine amongst healthcare providers in Yogyakarta Indonesia', BMC Health Services Research, 15, pp. 528, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-1187-3
,2015, 'Acute myocardial infarction and influenza: A meta-analysis of case-control studies', Heart, 101, pp. 1738 - 1747, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307691
,2015, 'General Practitioners' Perception of Risk for Travelers Visiting Friends and Relatives', Journal of Travel Medicine, 22, pp. 368 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jtm.12229
,2015, 'Review of economic evaluations of mask and respirator use for protection against respiratory infection transmission', BMC Infectious Diseases, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-1167-6
,2015, 'Risk factors for pertussis hospitalizations in Australians aged 45 years and over: A population based nested case-control study', Vaccine, 33, pp. 5647 - 5653, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.08.068
,2015, 'Risk factors for herpes zoster in a large cohort of unvaccinated older adults: A prospective cohort study', Epidemiology and Infection, 143, pp. 2871 - 2881, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814003653
,2015, 'Practices around the use of masks and respirators among hospital health care workers in 3 diverse populations', American Journal of Infection Control, 43, pp. 1116 - 1118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.05.041
,2015, 'Medicare Benefits Schedule data to monitor influenza immunisation in Australian adults', Public Health Research and Practice, 25, pp. e2541543, http://dx.doi.org/10.17061/phrp2541543
,2015, 'Health literacy in Beijing: An assessment of adults' knowledge and skills regarding communicable diseases', BMC Public Health, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2151-1
,2015, 'Chinese travellers visiting friends and relatives - A review of infectious risks', Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 13, pp. 285 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.05.004
,2015, 'Factors associated with influenza vaccination in middle and older aged Australian adults according to eligibility for the national vaccination program', Vaccine, 33, pp. 3299 - 3305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.05.046
,2015, 'Erratum: Increasing trends of herpes zoster in Australia (PLoS ONE (2015) 10:4 (e0125025))', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129872
,2015, 'The emergence of community-acquired Clostridium difficile in an Australian hospital', Healthcare Infection, 20, pp. 72 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/HI15003
,2015, 'Estimating vaccine coverage from serial trivariate serologic data in the presence of waning immunity', Epidemiology, 26, pp. 381 - 389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000000278
,2015, 'Facemasks for the prevention of infection in healthcare and community settings', BMJ: British Medical Journal, 350, pp. h694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h694
,2015, 'Examining the policies and guidelines around the use of masks and respirators by healthcare workers in China, Pakistan and Vietnam', Journal of Infection Prevention, 16, pp. 68 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177414560251
,2015, 'Control of varicella in the post-vaccination era in Australia: A model-based assessment of catch-up and infant vaccination strategies for the future - CORRIGENDUM', Epidemiology and Infection, 143, pp. 1651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268815000308
,2015, '“The cookie monster muffler”: Perceptions and behaviours of hospital healthcare workers around the use of masks and respirators in the hospital setting', International Journal of Infection Control, http://dx.doi.org/10.3396/IJIC.v11i1.006.15
,2015, 'Using an adjusted serfling regression model to improve the early warning at the arrival of peak timing of influenza in beijing', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0119923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119923
,2015, 'Re-thinking the ethics of dual-use research of concern on transmissible pathogens', Environment Systems and Decisions, 35, pp. 129 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-015-9534-9
,2015, 'Biopreparedness in the age of genetically engineered pathogens and open access science - an urgent need for a paradigm shift', Military Medicine: international journal of AMSUS, 180, pp. 943 - 949, http://dx.doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00482
,2015, 'Heightened vulnerability, reduced oversight and ethical breaches on the Internet in the in West African Ebola epidemic', The American Journal of Bioethics, 15, pp. 65 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2015.1010017
,2015, 'Predicting localised measles outbreak potential in Australia', Vaccine, 33, pp. 1176 - 1181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.071
,2015, 'A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers', BMJ Open, 5, pp. e006577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577
,2015, 'A review of economic evaluations of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in adults and the elderly', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 11, pp. 818 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2015.1011954
,2015, 'Commentary on Arriola et al. Antivirals and Effect Modification in Influenza Studies', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 212, pp. 1683 - 1684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv384
,2015, 'Current practices and barriers to the use of facemasks and respirators among hospital-based health care workers in Vietnam', American Journal of Infection Control, 43, pp. 72 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.009
,2015, 'Increasing trends of herpes zoster in Australia', PloS one, 10, pp. e0125025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125025
,2015, 'Influenza vaccination and cardiovascular risk in patients with recent tia and stroke', Neurology, 84, pp. 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000459893.53930.45
,2015, 'Respiratory protection for healthcare workers treating Ebola virus disease (EVD): Are facemasks sufficient to meet occupational health and safety obligations? (vol 50, pg 1421, 2014)', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES, 52, pp. 505 - 505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.10.011
,2015, 'Making mandatory vaccination truly compulsory: well intentioned but ill conceived.', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 15, pp. 872 - 873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00156-5
,2014, 'Uncertainty, risk analysis and change for Ebola personal protective equipment guidelines', International Journal of Nursing Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.12.001
,2014, '“The cookie monster muffler”: Perceptions and behaviours of hospital healthcare workers around the use of masks and respirators in the hospital setting', IJIC, 1, pp. 1 - 18
,2014, 'Control of varicella in the post-vaccination era in Australia: A model-based assessment of catch-up and infant vaccination strategies for the future', Epidemiology and Infection, 760, pp. 1467 - 1476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814002222
,2014, 'Respiratory protection for healthcare workers treating ebola virus disease (evd): are facemasks sufficient to meet occupational health and safety obligations?', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 51, pp. 1421 - 1426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.09.002
,2014, 'A scenario-based evaluation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and the Hajj', Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, 34, pp. 1391 - 1400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12253
,2014, 'Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers - authors' reply', Preventive medicine, 65, pp. 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.05.024
,2014, 'The discrepant epidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)', Environment Systems and Decisions, 34, pp. 383 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-014-9506-5
,2014, 'A scenario-based evaluation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and the Hajj', Risk Analysis, 34, pp. 1391 - 1400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12253
,2014, 'Inaccurate ascertainment of morbidity and mortality due to influenza in administrative databases: A population-based record linkage study', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e98446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098446
,2014, 'Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers', Preventive Medicine, 62, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.01.015
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