Publications

Alqahtani AS, Wiley KE, Mushta SM, Yamazaki K, BinDhim NF, Heywood AE, Booy R, Rashid H. Association between Australian Hajj pilgrims' awareness of MERS-CoV, and their compliance with preventive measures and exposure to camels. Journal of Travel Medicine 2016;23(5):taw046. doi:10.1093/jtm/taw046. [Full text]

Leask J. Media researchers must understand the audience too [letter] . European journal of public health 2016;26:534-5. [Letter]

Lawrence GL, Wang H, Lahra M, Booy R, McIntyre PB. Meningococcal disease epidemiology in Australia 10 years after implementation of a national conjugate meningococcal C immunization programme. Epidemiology and Infection 2016;144:2382-91.. [Full text]

Tashani M, Jayasinghe S, Harboe ZB, Rashid H, Booy R. Potential carrier priming effect in Australian infants after 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics 2016;5:311-8. [Full text]

Karki S, Newall AT, MacIntyre CR, Heywood AE, McIntyre P, Banks E, Liu B. Healthcare resource utilisation associated with herpes zoster in a prospective cohort of older Australian adults. PLoS One 2016;11:e0160446. [Full text]

Holt PG, Snelling T, White OJ, Sly PD, DeKlerk N, Carapetis J, Biggelaar AV, Wood N, McIntyre P, Gold M. Transiently increased IgE responses in infants and pre-schoolers receiving only acellular diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DTaP) vaccines compared to those initially receiving at least one dose of cellular vaccine (DTwP) – Immunological curiosity or canary in the mine?. Vaccine 2016;34:4257-62. [Abstract]

Blyth CC, Macartney KK, Hewagama S, Senenayake S, Friedman ND, Simpson G, Upham J, Kotsimbos T, Kelly P, Cheng AC. Influenza epidemiology, vaccine coverage and vaccine effectiveness in children admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2014: the Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN. Eurosurveillance 2016;21(30):pii=30301. [Full text]

Safarchi A, Octavia S, Luu LD, Tay CY, Sintchenko V, Wood N, Marshall H, McIntyre P, Lan R. Better colonisation of newly emerged Bordetella pertussis in the co-infection mouse model study. Vaccine 2016;34:3967-71. [Full text]

Muhit M, Wadud Z, Islam J, Khair Z, Shamanna BR, Jung J, Khandaker G. Generating evidence for program planning: rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in Bangladesh. Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2016;23:176-84 . [Abstract]

Alfelali M, Alqahtani AS, Barasheed O, Booy R, Rashid H. Mandating influenza vaccine for Hajj pilgrims. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2016;16:633-4. [Abstract]