Simon Firestone

Prevalence and spatial distribution of Coxiella burnetii seropositivity in northern Australian beef cattle adjusted for diagnostic test uncertainty.

CM Wood, NR Perkins, SJ Tozer, W Johnson, TS Barnes, M McGowan, JS Gibson, J Alawneh, SM Firestone, SM Woldeyohannes

Journal article  |  2021  |  Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii transmitted from animals including, but not limited to, c..

Using farmer observations for animal health syndromic surveillance: Participation and performance of an online enhanced passive surveillance system.

Caitlin Pfeiffer, Mark Stevenson, Simon Firestone, John Larsen, Angus Campbell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Preventive Veterinary Medicine

The challenge of animal health surveillance is to provide the information necessary to appropriately inform disease prevention and..

Optimising predictive modelling of Ross River virus using meteorological variables.

Iain S Koolhof, Simon M Firestone, Silvana Bettiol, Michael Charleston, Katherine B Gibney, Peter J Neville, Andrew Jardine, Scott Carver

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

BACKGROUND: Statistical models are regularly used in the forecasting and surveillance of infectious diseases to guide public healt..

Coxiella burnetii in the environment: A systematic review and critical appraisal of sampling methods

AM Hasanthi Abeykoon, Nicholas Joshua Clark, Ricardo Jorge Soares Magalhaes, Gemma Anne Vincent, Mark Anthony Stevenson, Simon Matthew Firestone, Anke Katrin Wiethoelter

Journal article  |  2020  |  Zoonoses and Public Health

Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by the intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii. Its primary mode of transmission is by inh..

Serological evidence for the presence of wobbly possum disease virus in Australia

Anita Tolpinrud, Simon M Firestone, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Leanne Wicker, Stacey E Lynch, Magdalena Dunowska, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

Comparison of the modified agglutination test and real-time PCR for detection of Toxoplasma gondii exposure in feral cats from Phillip Island, Australia, and risk factors associated with infection

Katherine Adriaanse, Simon M Firestone, Michael Lynch, Anthony R Rendall, Duncan R Sutherland, Jasmin Hufschmid, Rebecca Traub

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

Toxoplasma gondii is considered a disease risk for many native Australian species. Feral cats are the key definitive host of T. go..

Molecular characterization of Campylobacter spp. recovered from beef, chicken, lamb and pork products at retail in Australia

Rhiannon L Wallace, Dieter M Bulach, Amy Jennison, Mary Valcanis, Angus McLure, James J Smith, Trudy Graham, Themy Saputra, Simon Firestone, Sally Symes, Natasha Waters, Anastasia Stylianopoulos, Martyn D Kirk, Kathryn Glass

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

Australian rates of campylobacteriosis are among the highest in developed countries, yet only limited work has been done to charac..

Transmission network reconstruction for foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks incorporating farm-level covariates

Simon M Firestone, Yoko Hayama, Max SY Lau, Takehisa Yamamoto, Tatsuya Nishi, Richard A Bradhurst, Haydar Demirhan, Mark A Stevenson, Toshiyuki Tsutsui

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

Article Authors Metrics Comments Media Coverage Abstract Introduction Materials and methods Results Discussion Conclusions Support..

Further development of a reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay for the detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus and validation in the field with use of an internal positive control

Carolyn Bath, Megan Scott, Puspa Maya Sharma, Ratna B Gurung, Yoenten Phuentshok, Stephen Pefanis, Axel Colling, Nagendrakumar Singanallur Balasubramanian, Simon M Firestone, Sahawatchara Ungvanijban, Jadsada Ratthanophart, John Allen, Grant Rawlin, Mark Fegan, Brendan Rodoni

Journal article  |  2020  |  Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Spatiotemporal and risk analysis of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Vietnam, 2014-2017

Thanh Nguyen Lam, Mark A Stevenson, Simon M Firestone, Leslie D Sims, Huy Chu Duc, Van Nguyen Long, Ngoc Nguyen Tien, Trung Le Kien, Norikazu Isoda, Keita Matsuno, Masatoshi Okamatsu, Hiroshi Kida, Yoshihiro Sakoda

Journal article  |  2020  |  Preventive Veterinary Medicine

The aim of this study was to describe the spatiotemporal distribution of H5 HPAI outbreak reports for the period 2014-2017 and to ..