2024

Shi, T. et al. (2024) Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Ho, A. et al. (2023) Adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with non-A-E hepatitis. Nature, 617(7961), pp. 555-563. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05948-2) (PMID:36996873)

2022

Rudan, I. et al. (2022) BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination uptake, safety, effectiveness and waning in children and young people aged 12-17 years in Scotland. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 23, 100513. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100513) (PMID:36189425) (PMCID:PMC9514975)

Gorzynski, J., Wee, B., Llano, M., Alves, J., Cameron, R., McMenamin, J., Smith, A. , Lindsay, D. and Fitzgerald, J. R. (2022) Epidemiological analysis of Legionnaires' disease in Scotland: a genomic study. Lancet Microbe, 3(11), e835-e845. (doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00231-2) (PMID:36240833)

Vasileiou, E. et al. (2022) Investigating the uptake, effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines: protocol for an observational study using linked UK national data. BMJ Open, 12(2), e050062. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050062) (PMID:35165107) (PMCID:PMC8844955)

Katikireddi, S. V. et al. (2022) Two-dose ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine protection against COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths over time: a retrospective, population-based cohort study in Scotland and Brazil. Lancet, 399(10319), pp. 25-35. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02754-9) (PMID:34942103) (PMCID:PMC8687670)

2021

McKeigue, P. M., Burgul, R., Bishop, J., Robertson, C., McMenamin, J., O’Leary, M., McAllister, D. A. and Colhoun, H. M. (2021) Association of cerebral venous thrombosis with recent COVID-19 vaccination: case-crossover study using ascertainment through neuroimaging in Scotland. BMC Infectious Diseases, 21, 1275. (doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06960-5)

Agrawal, U. et al. (2021) COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths after BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccinations in 2·57 million people in Scotland (EAVE II): a prospective cohort study. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 9(12), pp. 1439-1449. (doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00380-5) (PMID:34599903) (PMCID:PMC8480963)

Shah, A. S.V. et al. (2021) Effect of vaccination on transmission of SARS-CoV-2. New England Journal of Medicine, 385(18), pp. 1718-1720. (doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2106757) (PMID:34496200) (PMCID:PMC8451182)

McKeigue, P. M. et al. (2021) Relation of severe COVID-19 in Scotland to transmission-related factors and risk conditions eligible for shielding support: REACT-SCOT case-control study. BMC Medicine, 19, 149. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-02021-5) (PMID:34158021) (PMCID:PMC8219469)

2020

Davis, C. et al. (2020) Postexposure prophylaxis with rVSV-ZEBOV following exposure to a patient with Ebola virus disease relapse in the United Kingdom: an operational, safety, and immunogenicity report. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(11), pp. 2872-2879. (doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1165) (PMID:31784751) (PMCID:PMC7778350)

McKeigue, P. M. et al. (2020) Rapid Epidemiological Analysis of Comorbidities and Treatments as risk factors for COVID-19 in Scotland (REACT-SCOT): a population-based case-control study. PLoS Medicine, 17(10), e1003374. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003374) (PMID:33079969) (PMCID:PMC7575101)

Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Reply to Li et al. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(4), pp. 696-698. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa322) (PMID:32497172)

Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Epidemiology of seasonal coronaviruses: establishing the context for the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(1), pp. 17-25. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa185) (PMID:32296837) (PMCID:PMC7184404)

2019

Nickbakhsh, S. et al. (2019) Virus-virus interactions impact the population dynamics of influenza and the common cold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(52), pp. 27142-27150. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911083116) (PMID:31843887) (PMCID:PMC6936719)

Mair, C. , Nickbakhsh, S. , Reeve, R. , McMenamin, J., Reynolds, A., Gunson, R. N., Murcia, P. R. and Matthews, L. (2019) Estimation of temporal covariances in pathogen dynamics using Bayesian multivariate autoregressive models. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(12), e1007492. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007492) (PMID:31834896) (PMCID:PMC6934324)

2016

Lucidarme, J. et al. (2016) An international invasive meningococcal disease outbreak due to a novel and rapidly expanding serogroup W strain, Scotland and Sweden, July to August 2015. Eurosurveillance, 21(45), 30395. (doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.45.30395)

Smith-Palmer, A. et al. (2016) Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis capsular group W among scouts returning from the World Scout Jamboree, Japan, 2015. Eurosurveillance, 21(45), 30392. (doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.45.30392)

Nickbakhsh, S. , Thorburn, F., Von Wissmann, B., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2016) Extensive multiplex PCR diagnostics reveals new insights into the epidemiology of viral respiratory infections. Epidemiology and Infection, 144(10), pp. 2064-2076. (doi: 10.1017/S0950268816000339) (PMID:26931455)

2013

Myles, P. et al. (2013) Differences between asthmatics and nonasthmatics hospitalised with influenza A infection. European Respiratory Journal, 41(4), pp. 824-831. (doi: 10.1183/09031936.00015512)

2012

Lycett, S., McLeish, N.J., Robertson, C., Carman, W., Baillie, G., McMenamin, J., Rambaut, A., Simmonds, P., Woolhouse, M. and Leigh Brown, A.J. (2012) Origin and fate of A/H1N1 influenza in Scotland during 2009. Journal of General Virology, 93(6), pp. 1253-1260. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.039370-0)

Steer, J.A. et al. (2012) Guidelines for prevention and control of group A streptococcal infection in acute healthcare and maternity settings in the UK. Journal of Infection, 64(1), pp. 1-18. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.11.001)

Cowling, B.J., Bolotin, S., Pebody, R., White, P.J., McMenamin, J., Perera, L., Nguyen-Van-Tam, J.S., Barlow, T. and Watson, J.M. (2012) A new sentinel surveillance system for severe influenza in England shows a shift in age distribution of hospitalised cases in the post-pandemic period. PLoS ONE, 7(1), e30279. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030279)

Drews, S.J. et al. (2012) Comparison of CATs, CURB-65 and PMEWS as triage tools in pandemic influenza admissions to UK hospitals: case control analysis using retrospective data. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e34428. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034428) (PMID:22509303) (PMCID:PMC3317953)

Gadsby, N.J., Reynolds, A.J., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R.N., McDonagh, S., Molyneaux, P.J., Yirrell, D.L. and Templeton, K.E. (2012) Increased reports of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from laboratories in Scotland in 2010 and 2011 - impact of the epidemic in infants. European Communicable Disease Bulletin, 17(10),

2011

Adamson, W.E., McGregor, E.C., Kavanagh, K., McMenamin, J., McDonagh, S., Molyneaux, P.J., Templeton, K.E. and Carman, W.F. (2011) Population exposure to a novel influenza A virus over three waves of infection. Journal of Clinical Virology, 52(4), pp. 300-303. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2011.08.019)

2009

Jackson, A., Seagar, A.L., Reid, M.E., Doig, C., Forbes, K., Laurenson, I.F. and McMenamin, J.J. (2009) Characterising transmission of a tuberculosis genotype in Scotland: a qualitatibe approach to social network enquiry. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 13(4), pp. 486-493. (PMID:19335955)

2008

Jackson, A.D., McMenamin, J., Brewster, N., Ahmed, S. and Reid, M.E. (2008) Knowledge of tuberculosis transmission among recently infected patients in Glasgow. Public Health, 122(10), pp. 1004-1012. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.01.011) (PMID:18486164)

2006

Smellie, M. et al. (2006) Hospital transmission of hepatitis B virus in the absence of exposure prone procedures. Epidemiology and Infection, 134(2), pp. 259-263. (doi: 10.1017/S0950268805004942)

Articles

Shi, T. et al. (2024) Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, (Accepted for Publication)

Ho, A. et al. (2023) Adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with non-A-E hepatitis. Nature, 617(7961), pp. 555-563. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05948-2) (PMID:36996873)

Rudan, I. et al. (2022) BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination uptake, safety, effectiveness and waning in children and young people aged 12-17 years in Scotland. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 23, 100513. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100513) (PMID:36189425) (PMCID:PMC9514975)

Gorzynski, J., Wee, B., Llano, M., Alves, J., Cameron, R., McMenamin, J., Smith, A. , Lindsay, D. and Fitzgerald, J. R. (2022) Epidemiological analysis of Legionnaires' disease in Scotland: a genomic study. Lancet Microbe, 3(11), e835-e845. (doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00231-2) (PMID:36240833)

Vasileiou, E. et al. (2022) Investigating the uptake, effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines: protocol for an observational study using linked UK national data. BMJ Open, 12(2), e050062. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050062) (PMID:35165107) (PMCID:PMC8844955)

Katikireddi, S. V. et al. (2022) Two-dose ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine protection against COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths over time: a retrospective, population-based cohort study in Scotland and Brazil. Lancet, 399(10319), pp. 25-35. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02754-9) (PMID:34942103) (PMCID:PMC8687670)

McKeigue, P. M., Burgul, R., Bishop, J., Robertson, C., McMenamin, J., O’Leary, M., McAllister, D. A. and Colhoun, H. M. (2021) Association of cerebral venous thrombosis with recent COVID-19 vaccination: case-crossover study using ascertainment through neuroimaging in Scotland. BMC Infectious Diseases, 21, 1275. (doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06960-5)

Agrawal, U. et al. (2021) COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths after BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccinations in 2·57 million people in Scotland (EAVE II): a prospective cohort study. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 9(12), pp. 1439-1449. (doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00380-5) (PMID:34599903) (PMCID:PMC8480963)

Shah, A. S.V. et al. (2021) Effect of vaccination on transmission of SARS-CoV-2. New England Journal of Medicine, 385(18), pp. 1718-1720. (doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2106757) (PMID:34496200) (PMCID:PMC8451182)

McKeigue, P. M. et al. (2021) Relation of severe COVID-19 in Scotland to transmission-related factors and risk conditions eligible for shielding support: REACT-SCOT case-control study. BMC Medicine, 19, 149. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-02021-5) (PMID:34158021) (PMCID:PMC8219469)

Davis, C. et al. (2020) Postexposure prophylaxis with rVSV-ZEBOV following exposure to a patient with Ebola virus disease relapse in the United Kingdom: an operational, safety, and immunogenicity report. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(11), pp. 2872-2879. (doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1165) (PMID:31784751) (PMCID:PMC7778350)

McKeigue, P. M. et al. (2020) Rapid Epidemiological Analysis of Comorbidities and Treatments as risk factors for COVID-19 in Scotland (REACT-SCOT): a population-based case-control study. PLoS Medicine, 17(10), e1003374. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003374) (PMID:33079969) (PMCID:PMC7575101)

Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Reply to Li et al. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(4), pp. 696-698. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa322) (PMID:32497172)

Nickbakhsh, S. , Ho, A. , Marques, D. F.P., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2020) Epidemiology of seasonal coronaviruses: establishing the context for the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 222(1), pp. 17-25. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa185) (PMID:32296837) (PMCID:PMC7184404)

Nickbakhsh, S. et al. (2019) Virus-virus interactions impact the population dynamics of influenza and the common cold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(52), pp. 27142-27150. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911083116) (PMID:31843887) (PMCID:PMC6936719)

Mair, C. , Nickbakhsh, S. , Reeve, R. , McMenamin, J., Reynolds, A., Gunson, R. N., Murcia, P. R. and Matthews, L. (2019) Estimation of temporal covariances in pathogen dynamics using Bayesian multivariate autoregressive models. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(12), e1007492. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007492) (PMID:31834896) (PMCID:PMC6934324)

Lucidarme, J. et al. (2016) An international invasive meningococcal disease outbreak due to a novel and rapidly expanding serogroup W strain, Scotland and Sweden, July to August 2015. Eurosurveillance, 21(45), 30395. (doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.45.30395)

Smith-Palmer, A. et al. (2016) Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis capsular group W among scouts returning from the World Scout Jamboree, Japan, 2015. Eurosurveillance, 21(45), 30392. (doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.45.30392)

Nickbakhsh, S. , Thorburn, F., Von Wissmann, B., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R. N. and Murcia, P. R. (2016) Extensive multiplex PCR diagnostics reveals new insights into the epidemiology of viral respiratory infections. Epidemiology and Infection, 144(10), pp. 2064-2076. (doi: 10.1017/S0950268816000339) (PMID:26931455)

Myles, P. et al. (2013) Differences between asthmatics and nonasthmatics hospitalised with influenza A infection. European Respiratory Journal, 41(4), pp. 824-831. (doi: 10.1183/09031936.00015512)

Lycett, S., McLeish, N.J., Robertson, C., Carman, W., Baillie, G., McMenamin, J., Rambaut, A., Simmonds, P., Woolhouse, M. and Leigh Brown, A.J. (2012) Origin and fate of A/H1N1 influenza in Scotland during 2009. Journal of General Virology, 93(6), pp. 1253-1260. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.039370-0)

Steer, J.A. et al. (2012) Guidelines for prevention and control of group A streptococcal infection in acute healthcare and maternity settings in the UK. Journal of Infection, 64(1), pp. 1-18. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.11.001)

Cowling, B.J., Bolotin, S., Pebody, R., White, P.J., McMenamin, J., Perera, L., Nguyen-Van-Tam, J.S., Barlow, T. and Watson, J.M. (2012) A new sentinel surveillance system for severe influenza in England shows a shift in age distribution of hospitalised cases in the post-pandemic period. PLoS ONE, 7(1), e30279. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030279)

Drews, S.J. et al. (2012) Comparison of CATs, CURB-65 and PMEWS as triage tools in pandemic influenza admissions to UK hospitals: case control analysis using retrospective data. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e34428. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034428) (PMID:22509303) (PMCID:PMC3317953)

Gadsby, N.J., Reynolds, A.J., McMenamin, J., Gunson, R.N., McDonagh, S., Molyneaux, P.J., Yirrell, D.L. and Templeton, K.E. (2012) Increased reports of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from laboratories in Scotland in 2010 and 2011 - impact of the epidemic in infants. European Communicable Disease Bulletin, 17(10),

Adamson, W.E., McGregor, E.C., Kavanagh, K., McMenamin, J., McDonagh, S., Molyneaux, P.J., Templeton, K.E. and Carman, W.F. (2011) Population exposure to a novel influenza A virus over three waves of infection. Journal of Clinical Virology, 52(4), pp. 300-303. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2011.08.019)

Jackson, A., Seagar, A.L., Reid, M.E., Doig, C., Forbes, K., Laurenson, I.F. and McMenamin, J.J. (2009) Characterising transmission of a tuberculosis genotype in Scotland: a qualitatibe approach to social network enquiry. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 13(4), pp. 486-493. (PMID:19335955)

Jackson, A.D., McMenamin, J., Brewster, N., Ahmed, S. and Reid, M.E. (2008) Knowledge of tuberculosis transmission among recently infected patients in Glasgow. Public Health, 122(10), pp. 1004-1012. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.01.011) (PMID:18486164)

Smellie, M. et al. (2006) Hospital transmission of hepatitis B virus in the absence of exposure prone procedures. Epidemiology and Infection, 134(2), pp. 259-263. (doi: 10.1017/S0950268805004942)