MVLS Covid19 Outputs

McDougall, C. W., Brown, C., Thomson, C., Hanley, N. , Tully, M. A., Quilliam, R. S., Bartie, P. J., Gibson, L. and Oliver, D. M. (2020) From one pandemic to another: emerging lessons from COVID-19 for tackling physical inactivity in cities. Cities and Health, (doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1785165) (Early Online Publication)

Murcia, P. , Streiker, D. , Da Silva Filipe, A., Robertson, D. , Jarrett, R. , Willett, B. , Hosie, M. , Biek, R. , Allan, K. and Weir, W. (2020) Send cat and dog samples to test for SARS-CoV-2. Veterinary Record, 186(17), p. 571. (doi: 10.1136/vr.m2019) (PMID:32451348)

Hanlon, P. et al. (2020) COVID-19 – exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost: a modelling study. Wellcome Open Research, 5, 75. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15849.1) (PMID:PPR153916)

Addie, D., Houe, L., Maitland, K. , Passantino, G. and Decaro, N. (2020) Effect of cat litters on feline coronavirus infection of cell culture and cats. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 22(4), pp. 350-357. (doi: 10.1177/1098612x19848167) (PMID:31094626)

Ceron, J. J., Lamy, E., Martinez-Subiela, S., Lopez-Jornet, P., Capela e Silva, F., Eckersall, P. D. and Tvarijonaviciute, A. (2020) Use of saliva for diagnosis and monitoring the SARS-CoV-2: a general perspective. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(5), e1491. (doi: 10.3390/jcm9051491)

Duffy, C. et al. (2020) Chest drain aerosol generation in covid-19 and emission reduction using a simple anti-viral filter. BMJ Open, (Accepted for Publication)

O'Cathail, S.M. , Gilbert, D.C., Sebag-Montefiore, D. and Muirhead, R. (2020) Challenges and consequences of COVID-19 in the management of anorectal cancer: coming together through social distancing. Clinical Oncology, 32(7), pp. 413-416. (doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2020.04.009) (PMID:32359847) (PMCID:PMC7184022)

Stenvinkel, P., Painer, J., Shiels, P.G. , Bansal, A., Fereidouni, S., Natterson-Horowitz, B., Johnson, R.J. and Miranda, J.J. (2020) SARS-COV-2 and biomimetics: what saves the planet will save our health. Journal of Internal Medicine, (doi: 10.1111/joim.13128) (PMID:32583447) (Early Online Publication)

Mangion, K. et al. (2020) The Chief Scientist Office cardiovascular and pulmonary imaging in SARS Coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19) study. Cardiovascular Research, (doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvaa209) (PMID:32702087) (Early Online Publication)

Jones, C. M. et al. (2020) Considerations for the treatment of pancreatic cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: the UK consensus position. British Journal of Cancer, (doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-0980-x) (PMID:32641867) (PMCID:PMC7341025) (Early Online Publication)

Faivre-Finn, C. et al. (2020) Reduced fractionation in lung cancer patients treated with curative-intent radiotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Oncology, 32(8), pp. 481-489. (doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2020.05.001) (PMID:32405158) (PMCID:PMC7218369)

Please see our ICAMS Covid19 Cardiovascular Research pages for all current projects, publications and outputs. 

Ashwell, G., Blane, D. , Lunan, C. and Matheson, J. (2020) General practice post-COVID-19: time to put equity at the heart of health systems? British Journal of General Practice, 70(697), p. 400. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp20X712001) (PMID:32732207)

Lalloo, D., Roy, M. and MacDonald, E. (2020) COVID-19 return to work guide for health professionals advising patients and employers. Documentation. Society of Occupational Medicine, London.

de Lusignan, S. et al. (2020) In-pandemic development of an application ontology for COVID-19 surveillance in a primary care sentinel network. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, (doi: 10.2196/preprints.21434) (Submitted)

Anker, S. D. et al. (2020) Conducting clinical trials in heart failure during (and after) the COVID-19 pandemic: an expert consensus position paper from the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). European Heart Journal, 41(22), pp. 2109-2117. (doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa461) (PMID:32498081)

Niedzwiedz, C. L. et al. (2020) Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, (Accepted for Publication)

Bouttell, J. et al. (2020) Evidence Review: Assessment of COVID-19 in Primary Care: the Identification of Symptoms, Signs, Characteristics, Comorbidities and Clinical Signs in Adults which may Indicate a Higher Risk of Progression to Severe Disease. Documentation. SIGN, Edinburgh.

Pollock, A. M. and Harding-Edgar, L. (2020) Policy Note: Coronavirus crisis: underfunding, restructuring, privatisation and fragmentation at the heart of the crisis in Holyrood and Westminster. Documentation. Scottish Centre on European Relations, Edinburgh, UK.

Purba, A. K. (2020) How should the role of the nurse change in response to Covid-19? Nursing Times, 116(6), pp. 25-28.

Clark, A. et al. (2020) Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study. Lancet Global Health, 8(8), e1003-e1017. (doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30264-3) (PMID:32553130) (PMCID:PMC7295519)

Aldridge, R. W., Lewer, D., Katikireddi, S. V. , Mathur, R., Pathak, N., Burns, R. and Fragaszy, E. B. (2020) Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups in England are at increased risk of death from COVID-19: indirect standardisation of NHS mortality data. Wellcome Open Research, 5, 88. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15922.2) (PMID:32613083) (PMCID:PMC7317462)

McCartney, G., Walsh, D., Leyland, A. and Dundas, R. (2020) Scaling COVID-19 against inequalities: should the policy response consistently match the mortality challenge? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, (Accepted for Publication)

Hastie, C., Pell, J. and Sattar, N. (2020) Vitamin D and COVID-19 infection and mortality in UK Biobank. European Journal of Nutrition, (doi: 10.1007/s00394-020-02372-4) (PMID:32851419) (PMCID:PMC7449523) (Early Online Publication)

Holmes, E. A. et al. (2020) Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health services. Lancet Psychiatry, 7(6), pp. 547-560. (doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30168-1) (PMID:32304649) (PMCID:PMC7159850)

Barton, C. M. et al. (2020) Call for transparency of COVID-19 models. Science, 368(6490), pp. 482-483. (doi: 10.1126/science.abb8637) (PMID:32355024)

Bouttell, J. et al. (2020) Assessment of COVID-19 in primary care: the identification of symptoms, signs, characteristics, comorbidities and clinical signs in adults which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease. Other. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Edinburgh.

Hanlon, P. et al. (2020) COVID-19 – exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost: a modelling study. Wellcome Open Research, 5, 75. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15849.1) (PMID:PPR153916)

Rooksby, M. , Furuhashi, T. and McLeod, H. J. (2020) Hikikomori: a hidden mental health need following the COVID-19 pandemic. World Psychiatry, 19(3), pp. 399-400. (doi: 10.1002/wps.20804) (PMID:32931118)

Hastie, C. E. et al. (2020) Vitamin D concentrations and COVID-19 infection in UK Biobank. Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews, 14(4), pp. 561-565. (doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.04.050) (PMID:32413819) (PMCID:PMC7204679)

Douglas, M., Katikireddi, V. , Taulbut, M., McKee, M. and McCartney, G. (2020) Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response. British Medical Journal, 369, m1557. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1557) (PMID:32341002) (PMCID:PMC7184317)

Pollock, A. M., Clements, L. and Harding-Edgar, L. (2020) Covid-19: why we need a national health and social care service. BMJ, 369, m1465. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1465) (PMID:32291259)

Kingstone, T., Taylor, A. K., O'Donnell, C. A. , Atherton, H., Blane, D. N. and Chew-Graham, C. A. (2020) Finding the 'right' GP: a qualitative study of the experiences of people with long-COVID. BJGP Open, (Accepted for Publication)

Shah, A. S. et al. (2020) Risk of hospitalisation with coronavirus disease 2019 in healthcare workers and their households: a nationwide linkage cohort study. British Medical Journal, (Accepted for Publication)

Mangion, K. et al. (2020) The Chief Scientist Office cardiovascular and pulmonary imaging in SARS Coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19) study. Cardiovascular Research, (doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvaa209) (PMID:32702087) (Early Online Publication)

Hotopf, M., Bullmore, E., O'Connor, R. C. and Holmes, E. A. (2020) The scope of mental health research in the COVID-19 Pandemic and its aftermath. British Journal of Psychiatry, (doi: 10.1192/bjp.2020.125) (PMID:32493516) (PMCID:PMC7330278) (Early Online Publication)

Sattar, N. et al. (2020) BMI and future risk for COVID-19 infection and death across sex, age and ethnicity: preliminary findings from UK biobank. Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews, 14(5), pp. 1149-1151. (doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.060) (PMID:32668401) (PMCID:PMC7326434)

Greenhalgh, T., Schmid, M. B., Czypionka, T., Bassler, D. and Gruer, L. (2020) Face masks for the public during the covid-19 crisis. British Medical Journal, 369, m1435. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1435) (PMID:32273267)

Siddaway, A. P. (2020) Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet Psychiatry, 7(7), e42. (doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30249-2) (PMID:32563317) (PMCID:PMC7302763)

Harrison, E. M. et al. (2020) Ethnicity and outcomes from COVID-19: the ISARIC CCP-UK prospective observational cohort study of hospitalised patients. SSRN Electronic Journal, (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3618215) (Submitted)

Kumleben, N., Bhopal, R., Czypionka, T., Gruer, L., Kock, R., Stebbing, J. and Stigler, F.L. (2020) Test, test, test for COVID-19 antibodies: the importance of sensitivity, specificity and predictive powers. Public Health, 185, pp. 88-90. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.006) (PMID:32590234) (PMCID:PMC7287442)

Voors, A. A. et al. (2020) Circulating plasma concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in men and women with heart failure and effects of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone inhibitors. European Heart Journal, 41(19), pp. 1810-1817. (doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa373) (PMID:32388565) (PMCID:PMC7239195)

Cleland, J. G.F. , Clark, R. A., Pellicori, P. and Inglis, S. C. (2020) Caring for people with heart failure and many other medical problems through and beyond the COVID‐19 pandemic; the advantages of universal‐access to home telemonitoring. European Journal of Heart Failure, 22(6), pp. 995-998. (doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1864) (PMID:32385954) (PMCID:PMC7273055)

Pellicori, P. (2020) At the heart of COVID-19. European Heart Journal, 41(19), pp. 1830-1832. (doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa415) (PMID:32405639)

Liu, Y., Du, X., Chen, J., Jin, Y., Peng, L., Wang, H. H.X., Luo, M., Chen, L. and Zhao, Y. (2020) Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an independent risk factor for mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Journal of Infection, 81(1), e6-e12. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.04.002) (PMID:32283162) (PMCID:PMC7195072)

Simpson, R. and Robinson, L. (2020) Rehabilitation following critical illness in people with COVID-19 infection. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 99(6), pp. 470-474. (doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001443) (PMID:32282359) (PMCID:PMC7253039)

Jani, B. D. , Pell, J. P. , McGagh, D., Liyanage, H., Kelly, D., de Lusignan, S., Weatherburn, C. J., Burns, R., Sullivan, F. M. and Mair, F. S. (2020) Recording COVID-19 consultations: review of symptoms, risk factors, and proposed SNOMED CT terms. BJGP Open, (doi: 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101125) (Early Online Publication)

Watt, G., Mullin, A. and Blane, D. (2020) GPs at the Deep End Report 36: General Practice in the time of COVID-19. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

O'Connor, R. et al. (2020) Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: authors’ reply. Lancet Psychiatry, 7(7), e44-e45. (doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30247-9) (PMID:32563319) (PMCID:PMC7302786)

Bhandari, R. and Nesterova, Y. (2020) Support thy neighbour : why a strong local response will help beat COVID-19. [Website]

Niedzwiedz, C. L. et al. (2020) Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: prospective cohort study using UK Biobank. BMC Medicine, 18, 160. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01640-8) (PMID:32466757) (PMCID:PMC7255908)

Cluver, L. et al. (2020) Parenting in a time of COVID-19. Lancet, 395(10231), e64. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30736-4) (PMID:32220657) (PMCID:PMC7146667)

McQueenie, R. et al. (2020) Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and COVID-19 infection within the UK Biobank cohort. PLoS ONE, 15(8), e0238091. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238091) (PMID:32817712) (PMCID:PMC7440632)

Siddaway, A. P. (2020) Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet Psychiatry, 7(7), e43. (doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30220-0) (PMID:32563318) (PMCID:PMC7302784)

Katus, H. A., Cleland, J. G.F. and Jaffe, A. S. (2020) Myocardial injury in severe COVID-19 infection. European Heart Journal, 41(22), pp. 2080-2082. (doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa447) (PMID:32464642)

• Chief Scientist Office. Understanding longer-term health impacts of social distancing and
  behavioural interventions introduced to prevent the spread of infection in the population. Dr Katie Robb (PI) & Professor Rory O’Connor. £37,000.
• Hunt K, Stead M, Purves R, Bunn C, Gray C, Reith G, Wardle H, Dobbie F, Critchlow N, Donnachie A. Transitions to more harmful forms of gambling during Covid-19 pandemic: behaviours and targeted marketing in young people and bettors on sport. ESRC £464,387. Jun 2020-Dec 2021.
• Gray CM, O’Donnell K, Wyke S part of a Scotland-wide consortium of 33 behavioural scientists Protecting population physical & mental health during the coronavirus pandemic: A representative national weekly survey to understand changes. CSO £324,472. May 2020-Nov 2020.
• Shakespeare T, Watson N, Burns N, Pearson C, Wiseman P, Banks M and Kupar H. Disability and Covid 19. The aim of this study is to understand disabled people's experiences during the COVID-19 epidemic, barriers experienced and lessons learned for policy and  practice. £390,000 ESRC COVID-19 Rapid Response research call
• Crampin A, Mwansambo C, Chauma Mwale A, Madise N, Ho A, Mwapasa V, Nyirenda T, Read J, Jewell C, MacPherson P, Price A, Amoah A. SARS-CoV-2 immunoepidemiology in Wellcome-funded urban andrural cohorts in Malawi : generating evidence to inform regional medium and long term decision making. Wellcome £249,544.00
• Hatton, C., Hastings, R, Abbott, D., Beyer, S., Bradshaw, J., Gore, N., Heslop, P., Jahoda, A., Marriot, A., Scior, K., Taggart, L., and Todd, S. Title: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with learning disabilities and factors associated with better outcomes. MRC award, £763,431 (September 2020- 2021)
• Prof Kate O’Donnell as PI; Dr Sara Macdonald and Dr David Blane as Co-Is. Title: Patient and public understanding of, and preferences for, digital tools to support the Scottish Test, Trace, Isolate, Support programme for COVID-19 infection. DHI/PHS; £30,000. (June – August 2020).
• How has Covid-19 social distancing amplified the mental health vulnerabilities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM)?  Dr Jamie Frankis, Reader in Health Psychology, GCU, Prof P Flowers, U. Strathclyde; Prof L McDaid, U. Glasgow; Dr D Strongylou, R Kincaid, GCU, J Heng, NHS Glasgow; T Tougher, NHS Lanarkshire; Y Kerr & Dr D Clutterbuck, NHS Lothian; Dr L Wallace, HPS; N Sparling, HIV Scotland.  CSO £49,728 
• Social and health impacts of COVID-19 suppression in vulnerable groups. Prof Sarah Armstrong, Dr Lucy Pickering - CSO £186,869

Link to Covid19 Outputs on SPHSU Website

The Roberson Centre for Biostatistics are involved as co-applicants/partners in the undernoted Covid19-related grants:

• UKRI NIHR - Demographic, multi-morbidity and genetic impact on myocardial involvement and its recovery from COVID-19: the COVID-HEART study - Prof Colin J Berry, Robertson Centre (Data Management, Statistics, Project Management, ECGs] – Total Grant award £620,076
• Medical Research Scotland – The influence of COVID-19 pandemic on the Scottish congenital heart disease population – Dr Mark Danton, Professor J G Cleland, Professor Alex McConnachie, Ms Sharon Kean – Total Grant Award £20,000
• Medical Research Scotland - Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Ventilated Patients with COVID-19 (COVID-RV) – Dr Ben Shelley, Professor Colin J Berry, Dr Claudia-Martina Messow – Total Grant Award £18,280
• Chief Scientists Office – Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Imaging in SARS Coronavirus disease-19 (CISCO-19) – Professor Colin J Berry, Professor Alex McConnachie, Ms Sharon Kean – Total Grant Award £47,940
• Medical Research Scotland - 3D Telemedicine: Transforming Patient Communication during Covid-19 – Dr Steven Lo, Robertson Centre [Statistics] - Total Grant Award £19,829

Additional advisory roles and outputs:

• RCB provides technical support for Professor Pell to analyse data in the Glasgow SafeHaven to inform the Health Board’s strategy on COVID-19 ‘shielding’.
• The RCB team has also created several UK national registries (supported by the British Cardiovascular Society) to capture cardiovascular complications and interventions associated with COVID-19,
• Dr Pierpaolo Pellicori (Clinical Senior Lecturer) is leading a Cochrane Rapid Review on cardiovascular complications of COVID-19.

• Professor Andrew Gumley chairs the Scottish Government Covid-19 Mental Health Advisory Group and Professor Rory O’Connor is a member.
• Professor Rory O’Connor co-led the Academy of Medical Sciences and MQ Transforming Mental Health Position Paper published in Lancet Psychiatry on setting the mental health science research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Professor Rory O’Connor was part of the COVID-19 International Suicide Prevention Research Collaboration which highlighted the strategic response for suicide prevention, also published in Lancet Psychiatry.
• Professor Rory O’Connor and Jack Melson worked closely with the Scottish Government on its flagship Distress Brief Intervention Programme and developed all of the intervention and training materials. In May 2020, the First Minister decided to scale up the DBI programme nationally to deal with the impact of Covid-19.
• Professor Jill Pell is a member of the Scottish Government’s Covid-19 Advisory Group and the testing strategy sub-group.
• Professor Andrew Gumley and Professor John Cleland are members of the CSO / NRS Restart Strategic Advisory Group.
• Claire Orange and Professor Julie Brittenden in RESTART group
• Professor Danny Mackay is member of the UKRI-BBSRC COVID-19 Cohort of Experts.
• Professor Kate O'Donnell is member of the Scottish Government Expert Reference Group on Ethnicity COVID-19.
• Professor Vittal Katikireddi is Co-Chair of the Scottish Government Expert Reference Group on Ethnicity COVID-19.
• Dr Janet Bouttell, Professor Olivia Wu, Professor Kate O’Donnell, Dr David Blane and Dr Bhautesh Jani are all part of the working group with SIGN and Health Improvement Scotland to produce evidence-based guidance for Primary Care.
• Dr David Ross provides COVID-19 advice and support to UK Defence, the Army and NATO and is lead researcher looking at the impact of COVID-19 lockdown and social isolation in soldiers.
  

SPHSU

• Dr Elise Whitley is a member of Public Health Scotland’s Mental Health Cell and currently contributing to priority setting for future work and advising on likely data sources for monitoring.
• Dr Eric Silverman is a member of Covid-19 Healthcare Coalition which is developing a decision-support dashboard intended to help policy-makers in the US to monitor the progress of the pandemic at the state and county level throughout the country.
• Professor Rich Mitchell and Dr Jonathan Olsen are on Public Health Scotland's Social and System Recovery: Environments and Spaces Group. Rich is leading their Evidence and Data subgroup.
  The group is currently exploring the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for open spaces, parks, streets, public spaces.
• Ms Ruth Dundas is part of The Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium (SCRC) - a group of epidemiologists, mathematical modellers, data scientists, software developers and other scientists that have come together to develop new models to help inform the control of COVID-19.
• One of the key groups identified by RAMP to develop a wider range of pandemic models is the University of Glasgow led Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium. SPHSU is involved in curating data to support model specification and calibration, and we will be increasingly involved in model design and programming.
• Dr Vittal Katikireddi is co-chair and Dr Rachel Thomson, Dr Theocharis Kromydas and Dr Peter Craig are members of a group convened by Public Health Scotland to advise the Scottish Government and other stakeholders (e.g. CoSLA, Social Security Scotland) on the impacts of the COVID-19 response on health and health inequalities that arise through economic and related pathways, and on actions that may mitigate negative impacts and enhance positive impacts. The group has published a briefing looking at protecting the health of the working-age population as lockdown reduces. 

INS (International Neuropsychological Society) Newsletter

• Narayanan, J., Evans, J.J., & Wilson, B.A., (2020) Balint’s syndrome as a consequence of COVID-19: A case from Southern India. INS News: International Neuropsychological Society Member Newsletter, Issue 3, p27-31

BMJ Editorial

• Safely returning clinically vulnerable people to work.  Ewan Macdonald, honorary professor of occupational medicine,  John Middleton, honorary professor of public health,  Drushca Lalloo, honorary clinical senior lecturer,  Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care research

Public Health Scotland Report

• Flynn R, Riches E, Reid G, Rosenberg S, Niedzwiedz C. Rapid review of the impact of COVID-19 on mental health. Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland; 2020
  
  

Please follow this link for the Centre for Virus Research's response to Covid19. 

The Centre for Virus Research (CVR) has also contributed to this year's online Glasgow Science Festival 2020: Science on the Sofa.

• Professor David Robertson on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2
• Professor Emma Thomson on where SARS-CoV-2 in Scotland came from and a potential vaccine
• Dr Janet Scott on long-term health and psychosocial implications of Covid19 (#LongCovid)
• Dr Antonia Ho on understanding how Covid19 affects the body in Scotland and Malawi
• Dr Ana Da Silva Filipe on sequencing the genome of SARS-CoV-2
• Dr Agnieszka Szemiel on growing the virus in a high containment lab

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Kiyuka, P. K. et al. (2018) Human coronavirus NL63 molecular epidemiology and evolutionary patterns in rural coastal Kenya. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 217(11), pp. 1728-1739. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiy098) (PMID:29741740) (PMCID:PMC6037089)

Guzik, T. J. et al. (2020) COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system: implications for risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment options. Cardiovascular Research, (doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvaa106) (Early Online Publication)

da Silva, S. J. R., da Silva, C. T. A., Guarines, K. M., Mendes, R. P. G., Pardee, K., Kohl, A. and Pena, L. (2020) Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. ACS Infectious Diseases, (doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00274) (PMID:32786280) (Early Online Publication)

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Harrison, E. M. et al. (2020) Ethnicity and outcomes from COVID-19: the ISARIC CCP-UK prospective observational cohort study of hospitalised patients. SSRN Electronic Journal, (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3618215) (Submitted)

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Mehta, P., Porter, J. C., Manson, J. J., Isaacs, J. D., Openshaw, P. J.M., McInnes, I. B. , Summers, C. and Chambers, R. C. (2020) Therapeutic blockade of granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor in COVID-19-associated hyperinflammation: challenges and opportunities. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 8(8), pp. 822-830. (doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30267-8) (PMID:32559419)

Memish, Z. A., Cotten, M. , Watson, S. J., Kellam, P., Zumla, A., Alhakeem, R. F., Assiri, A., Al Rabeeah, A. A. and Al-Tawfiq, J. A. (2014) Community case clusters of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Hafr Al-Batin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a descriptive genomic study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 23, pp. 63-68. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.1372) (PMID:24699184) (PMCID:PMC4441753)

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Assiri, A. et al. (2013) Hospital outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. New England Journal of Medicine, 369(5), pp. 407-416. (doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1306742) (PMID:23782161) (PMCID:PMC4029105)

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