Heidi Drummer

Striving for Hepatitis C Elimination: The Role of a Vaccine

Margaret Hellard, Heidi E Drummer, Nick Scott

Journal article  |  2020  |  CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Rapid generation of durable B cell memory to SARS-CoV-2 spike and nucleocapsid proteins in COVID-19 and convalescence

Gemma E Hartley, Emily SJ Edwards, Pei M Aui, Nirupama Varese, Stephanie Stojanovic, James McMahon, Anton Y Peleg, Irene Boo, Heidi E Drummer, P Mark Hogarth, Robyn E O'Hehir, Menno C van Zelm

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY

Lasting immunity following SARS-CoV-2 infection is questioned because serum antibodies decline in convalescence. However, function..

Rapid and lasting generation of B-cell memory to SARS-CoV-2 spike and nucleocapsid proteins in COVID-19 disease and convalescence

Gemma Hartley, Emily SJ Edwards, Pei Aui, Nirupama Varese, Stephanie Stojanovic, James McMahon, Anton Peleg, Irene Boo, Heidi Drummer, Mark Hogarth, Robyn O’Hehir, Menno van Zelm

Journal article  |  2020

ABSTRACT Background Lasting immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following infection is questioned because serum antibodies decline in convalesc..

10th Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference 2020

Rebecca E Smith, Heidi E Drummer, Paul J Hertzog

Journal article  |  2020  |  IMMUNOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY

The December 2020 issue contains a Special Feature on Infection and Immunity, featuring selected presentations from the 10th Lorne..

Frequent occurrence of low-level positive autoantibodies in chronic hepatitis C

Pooja Deshpande, Christine Bundell, Elizabeth McKinnon, Margaret Hellard, Rosemary Ffrench, Anna L Wilkinson, Heidi Drummer, Silvana Gaudieri, Michaela Lucas

Journal article  |  2020  |  PATHOLOGY

Evidence of autoimmune disease associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infection has important clinical implications. A systematic..

Tenth Scientific Biennial Meeting of the Australasian Virology Society-AVS10 2019

Karla J Helbig, Rowena A Bull, Rebecca Ambrose, Michael R Beard, Helen Blanchard, Till Bocking, Brendon Chua, Agathe MG Colmant, Keaton M Crosse, Damian FJ Purcell, Johanna Fraser, Joshua A Hayward, Stuart T Hamilton, Matloob Husain, Robin MacDiarmid, Jason M Mackenzie, Gregory W Moseley, Thi HO Nguyen, Miguel E Quinones-Mateu, Karl Robinson, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  VIRUSES-BASEL

The Australasian Virology Society (AVS) aims to promote, support and advocate for the discipline of virology in the Australasian r..

Enhancing the antigenicity and immunogenicity of monomeric forms of hepatitis C virus E2 for use as a preventive vaccine

Rob J Center, Irene Boo, Lilian Phu, Joey McGregor, Pantelis Poumbourios, Heidi E Drummer

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The E2 glycoprotein of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major target of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) that are critical fo..

Infectious KoRV-related retroviruses circulating in Australian bats

Joshua A Hayward, Mary Tachedjian, Claudia Kohl, Adam Johnson, Megan Dearnley, Brianna Jesaveluk, Christine Langer, Philip D Solymosi, Georg Hille, Andreas Nitsche, Cecilia A Sanchez, Adam Werner, Dimitri Kontos, Gary Crameri, Glenn A Marsh, Michelle L Baker, Pantelis Poumbourios, Heidi E Drummer, Edward C Holmes, Lin-Fa Wang, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bats are reservoirs of emerging viruses that are highly pathogenic to other mammals, including humans. Despite the diversity and a..

B cell immunodominance in primary hepatitis C virus infection

Nicholas A Brasher, Auda A Eltahla, Alexander Underwood, Irene Boo, Simone Rizzetto, Melanie R Walker, Chaturaka Rodrigo, Fabio Luciani, Lisa Maher, Heidi E Drummer, Nicodemus Tedla, Andrew R Lloyd, Rowena A Bull

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Neutralising antibodies (NAbs) play a key role in clearance of HCV. NAbs have been isolated and mapped to sever..

The case for a universal hepatitis C vaccine to achieve hepatitis C elimination

Nick Scott, David P Wilson, Alexander J Thompson, Eleanor Barnes, Manal El-Sayed, Adele Schwartz Benzaken, Heidi E Drummer, Margaret E Hellard

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: The introduction of highly effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C has led to calls to elimina..