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COVID-19: a novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: what we know and what we don't by David W Smith, John S Mackenzie

“…At the end of December, 2019, a new disease of unknown aetiology appeared in Wuhan, China. It was quickly identified as a novel betacoronavirus, and related to…”
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Zika virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome: another viral cause to add to the list by Smith, David W, Mackenzie, John

“…Brazil, El Salvador, Colombia, and Venezuela have reported increases in cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome coincident with their Zika virus epidemics, including…”
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Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions by Eden, John-Sebastian, Sikazwe, Chisha, Xie, Ruopeng, Deng, Yi-Mo, Sullivan, Sheena G., Michie, Alice, Levy, Avram, Cutmore, Elena, Blyth, Christopher C., Britton, Philip N., Crawford, Nigel, Dong, Xiaomin, Dwyer, Dominic E., Edwards, Kimberly M., Horsburgh, Bethany A., Foley, David, Kennedy, Karina, Minney-Smith, Cara, Speers, David, Tulloch, Rachel L., Holmes, Edward C., Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna, Smith, David W., Kok, Jen, Barr, Ian G.

“…Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection with the most severe disease in the young and elderly…”
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Flight-Associated Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Corroborated by Whole-Genome Sequencing by Speake, Hollie, Phillips, Anastasia, Chong, Tracie, Sikazwe, Chisha, Levy, Avram, Lang, Jurissa, Scalley, Benjamin, Speers, David J, Smith, David W, Effler, Paul, McEvoy, Suzanne P

“…To investigate potential transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during a domestic flight within Australia, we performed…”
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Haemodynamic influences on kidney oxygenation: Clinical implications of integrative physiology by Evans, Roger G, Ince, Can, Joles, Jaap A, Smith, David W, May, Clive N, O'Connor, Paul M, Gardiner, Bruce S

“…Summary Renal blood flow, local tissue perfusion and blood oxygen content are the major determinants of oxygen delivery to kidney tissue. Arterial pressure and…”
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Japanese Encephalitis Virus: The Emergence of Genotype IV in Australia and Its Potential Endemicity by Mackenzie, John S, Williams, David T, van den Hurk, Andrew F, Smith, David W, Currie, Bart J

“…A fatal case of Japanese encephalitis (JE) occurred in northern Australia in early 2021. Sequence studies showed that the virus belonged to genotype IV (GIV),…”
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Intrarenal oxygenation: unique challenges and the biophysical basis of homeostasis by Evans, Roger G, Gardiner, Bruce S, Smith, David W, O'Connor, Paul M

“…The kidney is faced with unique challenges for oxygen regulation, both because its function requires that perfusion greatly exceeds that required to meet…”
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Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO by Athanasiadis, Panos J., Yeager, Stephen, Kwon, Young-Oh, Bellucci, Alessio, Smith, David W., Tibaldi, Stefano

“…Can multi-annual variations in the frequency of North Atlantic atmospheric blocking and mid-latitude circulation regimes be skilfully predicted? Recent…”
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Analysis of the critical determinants of renal medullary oxygenation by Lee, Chang-Joon, Gardiner, Bruce S, Evans, Roger G, Smith, David W

“…We have previously developed a three-dimensional computational model of oxygen transport in the renal medulla. In the present study, we used this model to…”
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Programmable mechanical stimulation influences tendon homeostasis in a bioreactor system by Wang, Tao, Lin, Zhen, Day, Robert E., Gardiner, Bruce, Landao-Bassonga, Euphemie, Rubenson, Jonas, Kirk, Thomas B., Smith, David W., Lloyd, David G., Hardisty, Gerard, Wang, Allan, Zheng, Qiujian, Zheng, Ming H.

“…Identification of functional programmable mechanical stimulation (PMS) on tendon not only provides the insight of the tendon homeostasis under…”
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Estimating outflow facility parameters for the human eye using hypotensive pressure-time data by Smith, David W, Lee, Chang-Joon, Gardiner, Bruce S

“…We have previously developed a new theory for pressure dependent outflow from the human eye, and tested the model using experimental data at intraocular…”
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Wnt signalling pathway parameters for mammalian cells by Tan, Chin Wee, Gardiner, Bruce S, Hirokawa, Yumiko, Layton, Meredith J, Smith, David W, Burgess, Antony W

“…Wnt/β-catenin signalling regulates cell fate, survival, proliferation and differentiation at many stages of mammalian development and pathology. Mutations of…”
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Combination of clinical symptoms and blood biomarkers can improve discrimination between bacterial or viral community-acquired pneumonia in children by Bhuiyan, Mejbah U, Blyth, Christopher C, West, Rachel, Lang, Jurissa, Rahman, Tasmina, Granland, Caitlyn, de Gier, Camilla, Borland, Meredith L, Thornton, Ruth B, Kirkham, Lea-Ann S, Martin, Andrew, Richmond, Peter C, Smith, David W, Jaffe, Adam, Snelling, Thomas L

“…Differentiating bacterial from viral pneumonia is important for guiding targeted management and judicious use of antibiotics. We assessed if clinical…”
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Estimating outflow facility through pressure dependent pathways of the human eye by Smith, David W, Gardiner, Bruce S

“…We develop and test a new theory for pressure dependent outflow from the eye. The theory comprises three main parameters: (i) a constant hydraulic…”
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An Unusual Resurgence of Human Metapneumovirus in Western Australia Following the Reduction of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission by Foley, David Anthony, Sikazwe, Chisha T, Minney-Smith, Cara A, Ernst, Timo, Moore, Hannah C, Nicol, Mark P, Smith, David W, Levy, Avram, Blyth, Christopher C

“…Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission disrupted respiratory virus seasonality. We examined the unusual return of human…”
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Genome Sequence Analysis of First Ross River Virus Isolate from Papua New Guinea Indicates Long-Term, Local Evolution by Michie, Alice, Mackenzie, John S, Smith, David W, Imrie, Allison

“…Ross River virus (RRV) is the most medically significant mosquito-borne virus of Australia, in terms of human morbidity. RRV cases, characterised by febrile…”
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The biological role of the medial olivocochlear efferents in hearing: separating evolved function from exaptation by Smith, David W, Keil, Andreas

“…Cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) are remarkable, mechanically-active receptors that determine the exquisite sensitivity and frequency selectivity…”
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Estimating three-dimensional outflow and pressure gradients within the human eye by Smith, David W, Lee, Chang-Joon, Morgan, William, Gardiner, Bruce S

“…In this paper we set the previously reported pressure-dependent, ordinary differential equation outflow model by Smith and Gardiner for the human eye, into a…”
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Patterns of Plasma Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone, Progesterone, Estradiol, and Estriol Change and the Onset of Human Labor by Smith, Roger, Smith, Julia I., Shen, Xiaobin, Engel, Patricia J., Bowman, Maria E., McGrath, Shaun A., Bisits, Andrew M., McElduff, Patrick, Giles, Warwick B., Smith, David W.

“…Context: Clinical prediction of preterm delivery is largely ineffective, and the mechanism mediating progesterone (P) withdrawal and estrogen activation at the…”
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Genomic Analysis of Sindbis Virus Reveals Uncharacterized Diversity within the Australasian Region, and Support for Revised SINV Taxonomy by Michie, Alice, Ernst, Timo, Pyke, Alyssa T, Nicholson, Jay, Mackenzie, John S, Smith, David W, Imrie, Allison

“…Sindbis virus (SINV) is a widely dispersed mosquito-borne alphavirus. Reports of Sindbis disease are largely restricted to northern Europe and South Africa…”
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