Simon Firestone

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

Transmission network modelling to infer 'who infected whom' in infectious disease outbreaks is a highly active area of research. O..

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 ..

Unravelling animal exposure profiles of human Q fever cases in Queensland, Australia, using natural language processing

Nicholas J Clark, Sarah Tozer, Caitlin Wood, Simon M Firestone, Mark Stevenson, Charles Caraguel, Anne-Lise Chaber, Jane Heller, Ricardo J Soares Magalhaes

Journal article  |  2020  |  Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Q fever, caused by the zoonotic bacterium Coxiella burnetii, is a globally distributed emerging infectious disease. Livestock are ..

The forecasting of dynamical Ross River virus outbreaks: Victoria, Australia

Iain S Koolhof, Katherine B Gibney, Silvana Bettiol, Michael Charleston, Anke Wiethoelter, Anna-Lena Arnold, Patricia T Campbell, Peter J Neville, Phyo Aung, Tsubasa Shiga, Scott Carver, Simon M Firestone

Journal article  |  2020  |  Epidemics

Ross River virus (RRV) is Australia's most epidemiologically important mosquito-borne disease. During RRV epidemics in the State o..

Application of an indirect MilA ELISA for the detection of Mycoplasma bovis antibodies in bovine milk

AAB Al-Farha, N Wawegama, F Hemmatzadeh, S Firestone, J Moffat, GA Kojouri, AA Azari, R Amanollahi, A Hoare, K Petrovski

Journal article  |  2020  |  TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES

Does the fungus causing white-nose syndrome pose a significant risk to Australian bats?

Peter Holz, Jasmin Hutschmid, Wayne SJ Boardman, Phillip Cassey, Simon Firestone, Lindy F Lumsden, Thomas AA Prowse, Terry Reardon, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Wildlife Research