Jodie McVernon

Estimation of the force of infection and infectious period of skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data

Michael J Lydeamore, Patricia T Campbell, David J Price, Yue Wu, Adrian J Marcato, Will Cuningham, Jonathan R Carapetis, Ross M Andrews, Malcolm McDonald, Jodie McVernon, Steven YC Tong, James M McCaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS Computational Biology

Prevalence of impetigo (skin sores) remains high in remote Australian Aboriginal communities, Fiji, and other areas of socio-econo..

Coronavirus Disease Model to Inform Transmission Reducing Measures and Health System Preparedness, Australia.

Robert Moss, James Wood, Damien Brown, Freya M Shearer, Andrew J Black, Kathryn Glass, Allen C Cheng, James M McCaw, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2020  |  Emerging Infectious Diseases

The ability of health systems to cope with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases is of major concern. In preparation, we used clini..

Early analysis of the Australian COVID-19 epidemic

David J Price, Freya M Shearer, Michael T Meehan, Emma McBryde, Robert Moss, Nick Golding, Eamon J Conway, Peter Dawson, Deborah Cromer, James Wood, Sam Abbott, Jodie McVernon, James M McCaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  eLife

As of 1 May 2020, there had been 6808 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. Of these, 98 had died from the disease. The epidem..

Antimicrobial stewardship in remote primary healthcare across northern Australia

Will Cuningham, Lorraine Anderson, Asha C Bowen, Kirsty Buising, Christine Connors, Kathryn Daveson, Joanna Martin, Stacey McNamara, Bhavini Patel, Rodney James, John Shanks, Kerr Wright, Trent Yarwood, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2020  |  PeerJ

A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases

Rebecca Chisholm, Bradley Crammond, Yue Wu, Asha Bowen, Patricia Campbell, Steven Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2020

Households are known to be high-risk locations for the transmission of communicable diseases. Numerous modelling studies have demo..

Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection

Rebecca H Chisholm, Nikki Sonenberg, Jake A Lacey, Malcolm I McDonald, Manisha Pandey, Mark R Davies, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) skin infections are caused by a diverse array of strain types and are highly prevalent in disadvantage..

Longitudinal Analysis of Group A Streptococcus emm Types and emm Clusters in a High-Prevalence Setting: Relationship between Past and Future Infections.

Patricia Therese Campbell, Steven YC Tong, Nicholas Geard, Mark R Davies, Kate A Worthing, Jake A Lacey, Pierre R Smeesters, Michael R Batzloff, Joseph Kado, Adam WJ Jenney, Jodie Mcvernon, Andrew C Steer

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Group A Streptococcus is a pathogen of global importance, but despite the ubiquity of group A Streptococcus infections, the relati..

Modelling the impact of COVID-19 in Australia to inform transmission reducing measures and health system preparedness

R Moss, J Wood, D Brown, F Shearer, AJ Black, AC Cheng, JM McCaw, J McVernon

Journal article  |  2020

ABSTRACT Background The ability of global health systems to cope with increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases is of major concern. In..

Assessing the risk of spread of COVID-19 to the Asia Pacificregion

Freya Shearer, James Walker, Nefel Tellioglu, James McCaw, Jodie McVernon, Andrew Black, Nic Geard

Journal article  |  2020

Abstract During the early stages of an emerging disease outbreak, governments are required to make critical decisions on how to re..

State-of-the-art in the pneumococcal field: Proceedings of the 11(th) International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-11)

Brenda Anna Kwambana-Adams, E Kim Mulholland, Catherine Satzke, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Angela Brueggemann, Cynthia Whitney, Lea-Ann Kirkham, Raquel Sa-Leao, Jorge Vidal, Hamish Graham, David Murdoch, Glaucia Paranhos-Baccala, David Goldblatt, William S Pomat, Emma Best, Peter McIntyre, Jodie McVernon, Daniel Weinberger, Eileen Dunne, J Anthony Scott, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Pneumonia

The International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD) is the premier global scientific symposium dedicated ..