John Stenos

Validation of an Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay and Commercial Q Fever Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Use in Macropods

Anita Tolpinrud, John Stenos, Anne-Lise Chaber, Joanne M Devlin, Catherine Herbert, An Pas, Magdalena Dunowska, Mark A Stevenson, Simon M Firestone

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Kangaroos are considered to be an important reservoir of Q fever in Australia, although there is limited knowledge on the true pre..

A cross-sectional survey of risk factors for the presence of Coxiella burnetii in Australian commercial dairy goat farms

KW Hou, AK Wiethoelter, MA Stevenson, RJ Soares Magalhaes, L Lignereux, C Caraguel, J Stenos, G Vincent, JW Aleri, SM Firestone

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL

The largest Australian farm-based outbreak of Q fever originated from a dairy goat herd. We surveyed commercial dairy goat farms a..

Molecular Evidence of Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Species in Amblyomma albolimbatum Ticks from the Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa) in Southern Western Australia

Mythili Tadepalli, Gemma Vincent, Sze Fui Hii, Simon Watharow, Stephen Graves, John Stenos

Journal article  |  2021  |  PATHOGENS

Tick-borne infectious diseases caused by obligate intracellular bacteria of the genus Rickettsia are a growing global problem to h..

Domestic dogs are mammalian reservoirs for the emerging zoonosis flea-borne spotted fever, caused by Rickettsia felis

Ng-Nguyen Dinh, Hii Sze-Fui, Thi Hoang Minh-Trang, Thi Nguyen Van-Anh, Robert Rees, John Stenos, Rebecca Justine Traub

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Rickettsia felis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is being increasingly recognized as an etiological agent of human ric..

Biosafety and biosecurity requirements for Orientia spp. diagnosis and research: recommendations for risk-based biocontainment, work practices and the case for reclassification to risk group 2

Stuart D Blacksell, Matthew T Robinson, Paul N Newton, Soiratchaneekorn Ruanchaimun, Jeanne Salje, Tri Wangrangsimakul, Matthew D Wegner, Mohammad Yazid Abdad, Allan M Bennett, Allen L Richards, John Stenos, Nicholas PJ Day

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Scrub typhus is an important arthropod-borne disease causing significant acute febrile illness by infection with Orientia spp.Usin..

Diagnosis of spotted fever group Rickettsia infections: the Asian perspective.

Matthew T Robinson, Jaruwan Satjanadumrong, Tom Hughes, John Stenos, Stuart D Blacksell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Epidemiology and Infection

Spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFG) are a neglected group of bacteria, belonging to the genus Rickettsia, that represent a large..

Validation of an indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) for the detection of IgG antibodies against Coxiella burnetii in bovine serum

Caitlin Wood, Michael Muleme, Tabita Tan, Katrina Bosward, Justine Gibson, John Alawneh, Michael McGowan, Tamsin S Barnes, John Stenos, Nigel Perkins, Simon M Firestone, Sarah Tozer

Journal article  |  2019  |  PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE

There is limited knowledge of the true prevalence and distribution of coxiellosis in dairy and beef cattle populations in Australi..

A short report on the lack of a pyrogenic response of australian genomic group IV isolates of coxiella burnetii in Guinea pigs

A Islam, J Stenos, G Vincent, S Graves

Journal article  |  2019  |  Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

© 2019 by the authors. This small study reports on a non-pyrogenic response of five different Australian isolates of Coxiella burn..

Isolation of a divergent strain of Rickettsia japonica from Dew's Australian bat Argasid ticks (Argas (Carios) dewae) in Victoria, Australia

Leonard Izzard, Matthew Chung, Julie Dunning Hotopp, Gemma Vincent, Daniel Paris, Stephen Graves, John Stenos

Journal article  |  2018  |  TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES

A divergent strain of Rickettsia japonica was isolated from a Dew's Australian bat argasid tick, Argas (Carios) dewae, collected i..

A Concise Review of the Epidemiology and Diagnostics of Rickettsioses: Rickettsia and Orientia spp.

Mohammad Yazid Abdad, Rita Abou Abdallah, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, John Stenos, Shawn Vasoo

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rickettsioses are globally distributed and caused by the family Rickettsiaceae, which comprise a diverse and expanding list of org..