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List of works by Julian Druce

A decontamination and sterilization protocol employed during reuse of cardiac electrophysiology catheters inactivates human immunodeficiency virus

scientific article published in March 2003

A neutralization assay for Zika and Dengue viruses using a real-time PCR-based endpoint assessment

scientific article published on 09 August 2017

A new arenavirus in a cluster of fatal transplant-associated diseases

scientific article

A quantitative assessment of the efficacy of surgical and N95 masks to filter influenza virus in patients with acute influenza infection

scientific article published in July 2009

A severe 2017 influenza season dominated by influenza A(H3N2), Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 28 September 2018

Amplicon based MinION sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 and metagenomic characterisation of nasopharyngeal swabs from patients with COVID-19

scientific article (preprint)

Amplicon-Based Detection and Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharyngeal Swabs from Patients With COVID-19 and Identification of Deletions in the Viral Genome That Encode Proteins Involved in Interferon Antagonism

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

An outbreak of severe infections among Australian infants caused by a novel recombinant strain of human parechovirus type 3.

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Australia's influenza containment plan and the swine flu epidemic in Victoria

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Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19

scientific article published in 2020

Characteristics of adenovirus urethritis among heterosexual men and men who have sex with men: a review of clinical cases

scientific article

Chikungunya Virus Infection in Traveler to Australia

scientific article (publication date: March 2007)

Cleaning and sterilization protocol for reused cardiac electrophysiology catheters inactivates hepatitis and coxsackie viruses

scientific article

Clinical Characteristics of Herpes Simplex Virus Urethritis Compared With Chlamydial Urethritis Among Men.

scientific article published on February 2017

Clinical evaluation of AusDiagnostics SARS-CoV-2 multiplex tandem PCR assay

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Community epidemiology of human metapneumovirus, human coronavirus NL63, and other respiratory viruses in healthy preschool-aged children using parent-collected specimens

scientific article

Detection and genotyping of enteroviruses in cerebrospinal fluid in patients in Victoria, Australia, 2007-2013.

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva: implications for specimen transport and storage

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Detection of varicella zoster virus in genital specimens using a multiplex polymerase chain reaction.

scientific article published on August 2003

Direct RNA sequencing and early evolution of SARS-CoV-2

scientific article (preprint)

Dose-dependent response to infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the ferret model and evidence of protective immunity

scientific article

Efficacy of soap and water and alcohol-based hand-rub preparations against live H1N1 influenza virus on the hands of human volunteers.

scientific article

Establishing thresholds for influenza surveillance in Victoria

scientific article published on January 2003

Evaluation of swabs, transport media, and specimen transport conditions for optimal detection of viruses by PCR.

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Evaluation of twenty rapid antigen tests for the detection of human influenza A H5N1, H3N2, H1N1, and B viruses.

scientific article

Evolutionary and network analysis of virus sequences from infants infected with an Australian recombinant strain of human parechovirus type 3

scientific article

Extended detection and isolation of Murray Valley encephalitis virus in whole blood and urine

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Herpes simplex virus-2 transmission following solid organ transplantation: Donor-derived infection and transplantation from prior organ recipients.

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Human Herpesvirus Type 8-Associated Episodic Multisystem Illness in an HIV-Infected Patient in the Absence of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

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Human coronavirus OC43 causes influenza-like illness in residents and staff of aged-care facilities in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published in April 2005

Identification of five major and two minor genotypes of varicella-zoster virus strains: a practical two-amplicon approach used to genotype clinical isolates in Australia and New Zealand

scientific article

Implementation and evaluation of a novel real-time multiplex assay for SARS-CoV-2: in-field learnings from a clinical microbiology laboratory

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Inactivation of feline calicivirus, a Norwalk virus surrogate

scientific article published in January 1999

Increasing proportion of herpes simplex virus type 1 among women and men diagnosed with first-episode anogenital herpes: a retrospective observational study over 14 years in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Induction of apoptosis by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 7a protein is dependent on its interaction with the Bcl-XL protein

scientific article published on 11 April 2007

Infection control practices

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

Influenza C infections in Western Australia and Victoria from 2008 to 2014.

scientific article published on 04 July 2016

Isolation and rapid sharing of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from the first patient diagnosed with COVID-19 in Australia

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Isolation of HIV-1 from experimentally contaminated multidose local anaesthetic vials.

scientific article published on May 1995

Laboratory diagnosis and surveillance of human respiratory viruses by PCR in Victoria, Australia, 2002-2003.

scientific article published on January 2005

Laboratory identification of donor-derived coxsackievirus b3 transmission.

scientific article

Molecular analysis of clinical isolates of acyclovir resistant herpes simplex virus

scientific article published in February 2004

No H1N1 Detected in Children Admitted to Hospital with Asthma during the H1N1 Pandemic

Pandemic printing: a novel 3D-printed swab for detecting SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Reality check of laboratory service effectiveness during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Victoria, Australia

scientific article

Respiratory virus laboratory pandemic planning and surveillance in central Viet Nam, 2008-2010.

scientific article

SARS-coronavirus-2 replication in Vero E6 cells: replication kinetics, rapid adaptation and cytopathology

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Sample pooling is a viable strategy for SARS-CoV-2 detection in low-prevalence settings

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Sample pooling on the Cepheid Xpert® Xpress SARS-CoV-2 assay

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Sepsis-like disease in infants due to human parechovirus type 3 during an outbreak in Australia.

scientific article published on 9 October 2014

Susceptibility of HIV to inactivation by disinfectants and ultraviolet light.

scientific article

Syringe cleaning techniques and transmission of HIV.

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The First Isolation and Whole Genome Sequencing of Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus from Cerebrospinal Fluid of a Patient with Encephalitis.

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

The impact of the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009 virus on seasonal influenza A viruses in the southern hemisphere, 2009.

scientific article

The nonstructural protein 8 (nsp8) of the SARS coronavirus interacts with its ORF6 accessory protein.

scientific article published on 25 May 2007

Tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia using genomics

scientific article published on 17 May 2020

Tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia using genomics

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Transmission of human and feline immunodeficiency viruses via reused suture material

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Understanding influenza vaccine protection in the community: an assessment of the 2013 influenza season in Victoria, Australia

scientific article

Utility of a multiplex PCR assay for detecting herpesvirus DNA in clinical samples

scientific article published on May 2002

Utility of a stressed-SNP real-time PCR assay for the rapid identification of measles vaccine strain in patient samples.

scientific article

Validation of a single-step, single-tube reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Validation of a single-step, single-tube reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Zika Virus Infection in Australia Following a Monkey Bite in Indonesia

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Zika virus infection acquired during brief travel to Indonesia

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