Recent CCS publications: 25 May-1 June 2018

Associate Professor Andrew Wei talks about why Australia is such
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Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)

Gastroenterology

Immunology and Pathology

Infectious Diseases

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)

Surgery 

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)

Luu S, Gardiner EE, Andrews RK. Bone Marrow Defects and Platelet Function: A Focus on MDS and CLL. Cancers (Basel). 2018 May 18;10(5). pii: E147. doi: 10.3390/cancers10050147.

Szydzik C, Brazilek RJ, Khoshmanesh K, Akbaridoust F, Knoerzer M, Thurgood P, Muir I, Marusic I, Nandurkar H, Mitchell A, Nesbitt WS. Elastomeric microvalve geometry affects haemocompatibility. Lab Chip. 2018 May 23. doi: 10.1039/c7lc01320e. [Epub ahead of print] 

Wei AH. Accelerating early drug development: come on down under! Ann Oncol. 2017 Jul 1;28(7):1655-1657. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdx101.


Gastroenterology

Mgaieth S, Kemp W, Gow P, Fink M, Lubel J, Nicoll A, Gazzola A, Hong T, Ryan M, Knight V, Dev AT, Sood S, Bell S, Paul E, Roberts SK. Impact of viral hepatitis aetiology on survival outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma: A large multicentre cohort study. J Viral Hepat. 2017 Nov;24(11):982-989. doi: 10.1111/jvh.12717. Epub 2017 Jun 9.

Wedemeyer H, Craxí A, Zuckerman E, Dieterich D, Flisiak R, Roberts SK, Pangerl A, Zhang Z, Martinez M, Bao Y, Calleja JL. Real-world effectiveness of ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir±dasabuvir±ribavirin in patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 1 or 4 infection: A meta-analysis. J Viral Hepat. 2017 Nov;24(11):936-943. doi: 10.1111/jvh.12722. Epub 2017 Jul 3.


Immunology and Pathology

Goodall KJ, Nguyen A, Sullivan LC, Andrews DM. The expanding role of murine class Ib MHC in the development and activation of Natural Killer cells. Mol Immunol. 2018 May 19. pii: S0161-5890(18)30146-9. doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2018.05.001. [Epub ahead of print]

de Jong BG, IJspeert H, Marques L, van der Burg M, van Dongen JJ, Loos BG, van Zelm MC. Human IgG2- and IgG4-expressing memory B cells display enhanced molecular and phenotypic signs of maturity and accumulate with age. Immunol Cell Biol. 2017 Oct;95(9):744-752. doi: 10.1038/icb.2017.43. Epub 2017 May 26.

Infectious Diseases

Krishnaswamy S, Wallace EM, Cheng AC, Buttery J, Giles ML. Protecting newborns from pertussis: The role of partner vaccination in the era of maternal immunization. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2017 Sep;216:159-163. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.07.031. Epub 2017 Jul 25.

Turner T, Green S, Tovey D, McDonald S, Soares-Weiser K, Pestridge C, Elliott J; Project Transform Team; IKMD developers. Producing Cochrane systematic reviews-a qualitative study of current approaches and opportunities for innovation and improvement. Syst Rev. 2017 Aug 1;6(1):147. doi: 10.1186/s13643-017-0542-3.


Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)

Cornelisse VJ, Zhang L, Law M, Chen MY, Bradshaw CS, Bellhouse C, Fairley CK, Chow EPF. Concordance of gonorrhoea of the rectum, pharynx and urethra in same-sex male partnerships attending a sexual health service in Melbourne, Australia. BMC Infect Dis. 2018 Feb 27;18(1):95. doi: 10.1186/s12879-018-3003-2.


Surgery

Moonesinghe SR, Wong DJN, Farmer L, Shawyer R, Myles PS, Harris SK; SNAP-2 Project team and Steering Group. SNAP-2 EPICCS: the second Sprint National Anaesthesia Project-EPIdemiology of Critical Care after Surgery: protocol for an international observational cohort study. BMJ Open. 2017 Sep 7;7(9):e017690. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017690.