2-8 June 2020 Central Clinical School recent publications

Fair sample. Zhang et al have done the stats on COVID-19 rate
of infection and case fatality in Chinese cities, and their chosen
indicators predict epidemic size per million population. Study

Recent publications as notified by PubMed during the week 26 May - 1 June 2020 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

• Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Diabetes
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicine - Alfred
• Medicine - Peninsula
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry

Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Myles PS1, Maswime S2. Mitigating the risks of surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet. 2020 May 29. pii: S0140-6736(20)31256-3. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31256-3. [


Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Yan F, Wong NC, Powell DR, Curtis DJ. A 9-gene score for risk stratification in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia. 2020 Jun 2. doi: 10.1038/s41375-020-0888-8.


Department of Diabetes

De Livera AM, Reutens A, Cooper M, Thomas M, Jandeleit-Dahm K, Shaw JE, Salim A. Evaluating the efficacy and safety of GKT137831 in adults with type 1 diabetes and persistently elevated urinary albumin excretion: a statistical analysis plan. Trials. 2020 Jun 3;21(1):459. doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04404-0.

Liang J, Pitsillou E, Karagiannis C, Darmawan KK, Ng K, Hung A, Karagiannis TC. Interaction of the prototypical a-ketoamide inhibitor with the SARS-CoV-2 main protease active site in silico: Molecular dynamic simulations highlight the stability of the ligand-protein complex. Comput Biol Chem. 2020 May 28;87:107292. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2020.107292.
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Department of Infectious Diseases
Qu Y, Li Y, Cameron DR, ..., Peleg AY, Lithgow T. Hyperosmotic Infusion and Oxidized Surfaces Are Essential for Biofilm Formation of Staphylococcus capitis From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Front Microbiol. 2020 May 13;11:920. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00920. eCollection 2020.


Department of Medicine - Alfred

Gao F, Hall S, Bach LA. Myopathy secondary to empagliflozin therapy in type 2 diabetes. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep. 2020 Apr 12;2020. pii: EDM200017. doi: 10.1530/EDM-20-0017.


Department of Medicine - Peninsula

Callisaya ML, Purvis T, Lawler K, Brodtmann A, Cadilhac DA, Kilkenny MF. Dementia is associated with poorer quality of care and outcomes after stroke: An Observational Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2020 Jun 4. pii: glaa139. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glaa139. PMID: 32498086

Snowdon DA, Storr B, Davis A, Taylor NF, Williams CM. The effect of delegation of therapy to allied health assistants on patient and organisational outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Jun 3;20(1):491. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05312-4. PMID: 32493386


Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Zhang L, Tao Y, Wang J, Ong JJ, ..., Fairley CK. Early characteristics of the COVID-19 outbreak predict the subsequent epidemic size. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Jun 2. pii: S1201-9712(20)30429-X. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.122. PMID: 32502662


Department of Neuroscience

Griffith SP, Malpas CB, Alpitsis R, O'Brien TJ, Monif M. The neuropsychological spectrum of anti-LGI1 antibody mediated autoimmune encephalitis. J Neuroimmunol. 2020 May 22;345:577271. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2020.577271. Review. PMID: 32480239


Department of Psychiatry

Berk M, Woods RL, Nelson MR, ..., Fitzgerald PB, ..., McNeil JJ. Effect of Aspirin vs Placebo on the Prevention of Depression in Older People: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020 Jun 3. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1214.