Julie McAuley

Surface Inactivation of Highly Mutated SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern: Alpha, Delta, and Omicron

Valentin A Bobrin, Sung-Po R Chen, Carlos Fitzgerald Grandes Reyes, Tim Smith, Damian FJ Purcell, Jason Armstrong, Julie L McAuley, Michael J Monteiro

Journal article  |  2022  |  BIOMACROMOLECULES

Continued SARS-CoV-2 transmission among the human population has meant the evolution of the virus to produce variants of increased..

The Efficacy of Common Household Cleaning Agents for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Control

Catarina F Almeida, Damian FJ Purcell, Dale I Godfrey, Julie L McAuley

Journal article  |  2022  |  VIRUSES-BASEL

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is having devastating effects on a global scale. Since common household disinfectants a..

Synergism and Antagonism of Bacterial-Viral Coinfection in the Upper Respiratory Tract

Sam Manna, Julie McAuley, Jonathan Jacobson, Cattram D Nguyen, Md Ashik Ullah, Ismail Sebina, Victoria Williamson, E Kim Mulholland, Odilia Wijburg, Simon Phipps, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2022  |  MSPHERE

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is a leading cause of pneumonia in children under 5 years of age. Coinfection by pneum..

Evaluation of virucidal activity of residual quaternary ammonium-treated surfaces on SARS-CoV-2

Alexander G Caschera, Julie McAuley, Youry Kim, Damian Purcell, Jasper Rymenants, Daniel A Foucher

Journal article  |  2022  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global health and the world's economies. Proliferation of vir..

Air-Liquid-Interface Differentiated Human Nose Epithelium: A Robust Primary Tissue Culture Model of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Bang M Tran, Samantha L Grimley, Julie L McAuley, Abderrahman Hachani, Linda Earnest, Sharon L Wong, Leon Caly, Julian Druce, Damian FJ Purcell, David C Jackson, Mike Catton, Cameron J Nowell, Laura Leonie, Georgia Deliyannis, Shafagh A Waters, Joseph Torresi, Elizabeth Vincan

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

The global urgency to uncover medical countermeasures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndr..

A natural product compound inhibits coronaviral replication in vitro to the conserved SARS-CoV-2

Dene R Littler, Miaomiao Liu, Julie L McAuley, Shea A Lowery, Patricia T Illing, Benjamin S Gully, Anthony W Purcell, Indu R Chandrashekaran, Stanley Perlman, Damian FJ Purcell, Ronald J Quinn, Jamie Rossjohn

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Nsp9 replicase is a conserved coronaviral protein that acts as an essential accessory component of the multi-subunit viral rep..

SARS-CoV-2 suppresses IFN beta production mediated by NSP1, 5, 6, 15, ORF6 and ORF7b but does not suppress the effects of added interferon (vol 17, e1009800, 2021)

Maya Shemesh, Turgut E Aktepe, Joshua M Deerain, Julie L McAuley, Michelle D Audsley, Cassandra T David, Damian FJ Purcell, Victoria Urin, Rune Hartmann, Gregory W Moseley, Jason M Mackenzie, Gideon Schreiber, Daniel Harari

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS PATHOGENS

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Multi-site point of care assessment of Abbott ID NOW rapid molecular test for SARS-CoV-2 in a low-prevalence setting

Maryza Graham, Stephen Muhi, Tuyet Hoang, Susan A Ballard, Julie McAuley, Jason C Kwong, Deborah A Williamson, Benjamin P Howden

Journal article  |  2021  |  PATHOLOGY

Water-Borne Nanocoating for Rapid Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Viruses

Valentin A Bobrin, Sung-Po Chen, Carlos Fitzgerald Grandes Reyes, Bing Sun, Chun Ki Ng, Youry Kim, Damian Purcell, Zhongfan Jia, Wenyi Gu, Jason W Armstrong, Julie McAuley, Michael J Monteiro

Journal article  |  2021  |  ACS NANO

The rise in coronavirus variants has resulted in surges of the disease across the globe. The mutations in the spike protein on the..

SARS-CoV-2 suppresses IFN beta production mediated by NSP1, 5, 6, 15, ORF6 and ORF7b but does not suppress the effects of added interferon

Maya Shemesh, Turgut E Aktepe, Joshua M Deerain, Julie L McAuley, Michelle D Audsley, Cassandra T David, Damian FJ Purcell, Victoria Urin, Rune Hartmann, Gregory W Moseley, Jason M Mackenzie, Gideon Schreiber, Daniel Harari

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS PATHOGENS

Type I Interferons (IFN-Is) are a family of cytokines which play a major role in inhibiting viral infection. Resultantly, many vir..