Alicia Arnott

Pangenome Analysis of a Salmonella Enteritidis Population Links a Major Outbreak to a Gifsy-1-Like Prophage Containing Anti-Inflammatory Gene gogB.

Adam J Svahn, Carl JE Suster, Sheryl L Chang, Rebecca J Rockett, Eby M Sim, Oliver M Cliff, Qinning Wang, Alicia Arnott, Marc Ramsperger, Tania C Sorrell, Vitali Sintchenko, Mikhail Prokopenko

Journal article  |  2023  |  Microbiol Spectr

A major outbreak of the globally significant Salmonella Enteritidis foodborne pathogen was identified within a large clinical data..

Emergent Omicron BR.2.1 sublineage of SARS-CoV-2 in New South Wales, Australia: a subvariant with high fitness but without increased disease severity.

Annaleise R Howard-Jones, Alicia Arnott, Jenny Draper, Mailie Gall, Sally Ellis, Kelsi Marris, Christine Selvey, Kerri Basile, Dominic E Dwyer, Vitali Sintchenko, Jen Kok

Journal article  |  2023  |  Int J Infect Dis

OBJECTIVES: To describe the epidemiology and impact of Omicron BR.2.1, an emergent SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 sublineage displayin..

Improved Neutralisation of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant following a Booster Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) COVID-19 Vaccine.

Kerri Basile, Rebecca J Rockett, Kenneth McPhie, Michael Fennell, Jessica Johnson-Mackinnon, Jessica E Agius, Winkie Fong, Hossinur Rahman, Danny Ko, Linda Donavan, Linda Hueston, Connie Lam, Alicia Arnott, Sharon C-A Chen, Susan Maddocks, Matthew V O'Sullivan, Dominic E Dwyer, Vitali Sintchenko, Jen Kok

Journal article  |  2022  |  Viruses

In late November 2021, the World Health Organization declared the SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.529 the fifth variant of concern, Omicr..

COVID-19 Infection With the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variant in a Cohort of Kidney and Kidney Pancreas Transplant Recipients: Clinical Features, Risk Factors, and Outcomes.

Germaine Wong, Matthew Rowlandson, Dharshana Sabanayagam, Andrew N Ginn, Kathy Kable, Frederika Sciberras, Eric Au, Jenny Draper, Alicia Arnott, Vitali Sintchenko, Dominic E Dwyer, Sharon CA Chen, Jen Kok

Journal article  |  2022  |  Transplantation

BACKGROUND: Since November 2021, a new variant of concern (VOC), the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ..

Co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants revealed by genomic surveillance.

Rebecca J Rockett, Jenny Draper, Mailie Gall, Eby M Sim, Alicia Arnott, Jessica E Agius, Jessica Johnson-Mackinnon, Winkie Fong, Elena Martinez, Alexander P Drew, Clement Lee, Christine Ngo, Marc Ramsperger, Andrew N Ginn, Qinning Wang, Michael Fennell, Danny Ko, Linda Hueston, Lukas Kairaitis, Edward C Holmes, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  Nat Commun

Co-infections with different variants of SARS-CoV-2 are a key precursor to recombination events that are likely to drive SARS-CoV-..

Genome-wide networks reveal emergence of epidemic strains of Salmonella Enteritidis.

Adam J Svahn, Sheryl L Chang, Rebecca J Rockett, Oliver M Cliff, Qinning Wang, Alicia Arnott, Marc Ramsperger, Tania C Sorrell, Vitali Sintchenko, Mikhail Prokopenko

Journal article  |  2022  |  Int J Infect Dis

OBJECTIVES: To enhance monitoring of high-burden foodborne pathogens, there is opportunity to combine pangenome data with network ..

Resistance Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant after Sotrovimab Use

Rebecca Rockett, Kerri Basile, Susan Maddocks, Winkie Fong, Jessica E Agius, Jessica Johnson-Mackinnon, Alicia Arnott, Shona Chandra, Mailie Gall, Jenny Draper, Elena Martinez, Eby M Sim, Clement Lee, Christine Ngo, Marc Ramsperger, Andrew N Ginn, Qinning Wang, Michael Fennell, Danny Ko, H Ling Lim, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Guiding the design of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance by estimating the resolution of outbreak detection.

Carl JE Suster, Alicia Arnott, Grace Blackwell, Mailie Gall, Jenny Draper, Elena Martinez, Alexander P Drew, Rebecca J Rockett, Sharon C-A Chen, Jen Kok, Dominic E Dwyer, Vitali Sintchenko

Journal article  |  2022  |  Front Public Health

Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has been essential to inform public health response to outbreaks. The high incidence of infecti..

SARS-CoV-2 Within-Host and in vitro Genomic Variability and Sub-Genomic RNA Levels Indicate Differences in Viral Expression Between Clinical Cohorts and in vitro Culture.

Jessica E Agius, Jessica C Johnson-Mackinnon, Winkie Fong, Mailie Gall, Connie Lam, Kerri Basile, Jen Kok, Alicia Arnott, Vitali Sintchenko, Rebecca J Rockett

Journal article  |  2022  |  Front Microbiol

BACKGROUND: Low frequency intrahost single nucleotide variants (iSNVs) of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-Co..

Added Value of Genomic Surveillance of Virulence Factors in Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in New South Wales, Australia

Eby M Sim, Ryan Kim, Mailie Gall, Alicia Arnott, Peter Howard, Mary Valcanis, Benjamin P Howden, Vitali Sintchenko

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The disease caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) remains a significant public health challenge globally, but th..