Infectious diseases

Prof Raina MacIntyre
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Dr Linda Calabresi
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Prof Allen Cheng
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Dr Linda Calabresi
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Probiotics can be used to support a healthy immune system, reducing the incidence and severity of infections, in particular respiratory tract infections.

Dr Centaine Snoswell
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The expansion of telehealth services was a deliberate strategy to help reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission between practitioners and patients, so is it working?

Dr Linda Calabresi
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The current stepwise approach to the lifting of restrictions in Australia is appropriate given the exceedingly low rates of community transmission and the wide availability of testing and the COVID safe app, which hopefully will ensure new cases of the disease are detected early and potential outbreaks are contained.

Prof David Murdoch
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COVID-19 is being referred to as a “once in a century event” – but the next pandemic is likely to hit sooner than you think.

Dr Linda Calabresi
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As the restrictions start to lift and we all start to emerge from our COVID cocoons, a newly published study serves as a timely reminder to heed our social distancing rules.

Dr Linda Calabresi
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In an acute infection of COVID-19, the PCR test is most likely to be positive three days after the first symptoms develop.

Dr Linda Calabresi
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It has been suggested that Vit D supplementation could help prevent and reduce the impact of COVID-19

Dr Linda Calabresi
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As the COVID restrictions here in Australia slowly lift, it is with some trepidation that people, particularly older people, are emerging from their home sanctuaries.

Dr Linda Calabresi
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There have recently been a small number of case reports of children experiencing a newly described inflammatory syndrome believed to be related to COVID-19. This syndrome has a number of different names including PIMS-TS (paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-Cov-2).