Australia’s submission of Confidence Building Measure “C” with respect to the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group and the Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) is as follows:
Sensors and Effectors Division, Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group
The policy of the Defence Science and Technology Group is to publish results of general scientific value in open literature. Information that is more specialised and relevant particularly to defence is published in laboratory reports, which are unclassified and available to the public, unless they contain information that might prejudice the security of Australia or information that is “commercial-in-confidence”. Most results of the biological research will be either unclassified or “commercial-in-confidence”.
Journal Papers
Batinovic, S., Stanton, C.R., Rice, D.T.F. et al. Tyroviruses are a new group of temperate phages that infect Bacillus species in soil environments worldwide. BMC Genomics 23, 777 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-09023-4.
Unsworth NB, P Rajasekaran, R Gupta, J Akter, ZT Cooper and C-Q Liu (2022). Assessment of Antibiotics using the Hollow Fibre Infection Model to Identify Improved Melioidosis Therapeutics. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference; Dec 2022, San Francisco USA.
Chun Liu, Pravin Rajasekaran, Ruchi Gupta and Nathan Unsworth (2022). Evaluation of inhalational levofloxacin for treating anthrax in the dynamic hollow fibre infection model. CBRNE Research & Innovation (5th international conference), May 2022, Lille, France.
Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP)
Consistent with the goal of encouraging publication of results and promotion of use of knowledge, ACDP has compiled the following list of relevant contributions for 2021:
Journal Papers
Au, G.G., Marsh, G.A., McAuley, A.J., Lowther, S., Trinidad, L., Edwards, S., Todd, S., Barr, J., Bruce, M.P., Poole, T.B., Brown, S., Layton, R., Riddell, S., Rowe, B., Soldani, E., Suen, W.W., Bergfeld, J., Bingham, J., Payne, J., Durr, P.A., Drew, T.W., Vasan, S.S., 2022. Characterisation and natural progression of SARS-CoV-2 infection in ferrets. Sci Rep. 2022 Apr 5;12(1):5680.
Balkema-Buschmann, A., Fischer, K., McNabb, L., Diederich, S., Singanallur, N.B., Ziegler, U., Keil, G.M., Kirkland, P.D., Penning, M., Sadeghi, B., Marsh, G., Barr, J., Colling, A., 2022. Serological Hendra Virus Diagnostics Using an Indirect ELISA-Based DIVA Approach with Recombinant Hendra G and N Proteins. Microorganisms 10.
Barbosa, A.D., Long, M., Lee, W., Austen, J.M., Cunneen, M., Ratchford, A., Burns, B., Kumarasinghe, P., Ben-Othman, R., Kollmann, T.R., Stewart, C.R., Beaman, M., Parry, R., Hall, R., Tabor, A., O'Donovan, J., Faddy, H.M., Collins, M., Cheng, A.C., Stenos, J., Graves, S., Oskam, C.L., Ryan, U.M., Irwin, P.J., 2022. The Troublesome Ticks Research Protocol: Developing a Comprehensive, Multidiscipline Research Plan for Investigating Human Tick-Associated Disease in Australia. Pathogens 11.
Barr, J., Boyd, V., Todd, S., Smith, I., Prada, D., O'Dea, M., Jackson, B., Pearce, L., Adams, T.E., Vanderduys, E., Westcott, D., McKeown, A., Baker, M.L., Marsh, G.A., 2022. Detection of filovirus-reactive antibodies in Australian bat species. J Gen Virol 103.
Chaber, A.L., Easther, R., Cumming, B., Irving, R., Keyburn, A.L., Smart, C., O'Handley, R., Lignereux, L., 2022. Ehrlichia canis rapid spread and possible enzooty in northern South Australia and distribution of its vector Rhipicephalus linnaei. Aust Vet J 100, 533-538.
Challagulla, A., Shi, S., Nair, K., O'Neil, T.E., Morris, K.R., Wise, T.G., Cahill, D.M., Tizard, M.L., Doran, T.J., Jenkins, K.A., 2022. Marker counter-selection via CRISPR/Cas9 co-targeting for efficient generation of genome edited avian cell lines and germ cells. Anim Biotechnol 33, 1235-1245.
Challagulla, A., Tizard, M.L., Doran, T.J., Cahill, D.M., Jenkins, K.A., 2022. Harnessing Intronic microRNA Structures to Improve Tolerance and Expression of shRNAs in Animal Cells. Methods Protoc. 2022 Feb 10;5(1):18.
Chen, Q., Langenbach, S., Li, M., Xia, Y.C., Gao, X., Gartner, M.J., Pharo, E.A., Williams, S.M., Todd, S., Clarke, N., Ranganathan, S., Baker, M.L., Subbarao, K., Stewart, A.G., 2022. ACE2 Expression in Organotypic Human Airway Epithelial Cultures and Airway Biopsies. Front Pharmacol. 2022 Mar 11;13:813087.
Diggles, B.K., Bass, D., Bateman, K.S., Chong, R., Daumich, C., Hawkins, K.A., Hazelgrove, R., Kerr, R., Moody, N.J.G., Ross, S., Stentiford, G.D., 2022. Haplosporidium acetes n. sp. infecting the hepatopancreas of jelly prawns Acetes sibogae australis from Moreton Bay, Australia. J Invertebr Pathol 190, 107751.
Edgar, R.C.S., Siddiqui, G., Hjerrild, K., Malcolm, T.R., Vinh, N.B., Webb, C.T., Holmes, C., MacRaild, C.A., Chernih, H.C., Suen, W.W., Counihan, N.A., Creek, D.J., Scammells, P.J., McGowan, S., de Koning-Ward, T.F., 2022. Genetic and chemical validation of Plasmodium falciparum aminopeptidase PfA-M17 as a drug target in the hemoglobin digestion pathway. Elife 11.
Elfekih, S., Metcalfe, S., Walsh, T.K., Cox, T.E., Strive, T., 2022. Genomic insights into a population of introduced European rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus in Australia and the development of genetic resistance to rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2022 Mar;69(2):895-902.
El-Hage, C., Hartley, C., Savage, C., Watson, J., Gilkerson, J., Paillot, R., 2022. Assessment of Humoral and Long-Term Cell-Mediated Immune Responses to Recombinant Canarypox-Vectored Equine Influenza Virus Vaccination in Horses Using Conventional and Accelerated Regimens Respectively. Vaccines (Basel) 10.
Farr, R.J., Rootes, C.L., Stenos, J., Foo, C.H., Cowled, C., Stewart, C.R., 2022. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection by microRNA profiling of the upper respiratory tract. PLoS One. 2022 Apr 5;17(4):e0265670.
Fourie, I., Snyman, J., Williams, J., Ismail, A., Jansen van Vuren, P., Venter, M., 2022. Epidemiological and Genomic Characterisation of Middelburg and Sindbis Alphaviruses Identified in Horses with Febrile and Neurological Infections, South Africa (2014-2018). Viruses 14.
Fourie, I., Williams, J., Ismail, A., Jansen van Vuren, P., Stoltz, A., Venter, M., 2022. Detection and genome characterization of Middelburg virus strains isolated from CSF and whole blood samples of humans with neurological manifestations in South Africa. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 16, e0010020.
George, A.M., Wille, M., Wang, J., Anderson, K., Cohen, S., Moselen, J., Lee, L.Y.Y., Suen, W.W., Bingham, J., Dalziel, A.E., Whitney, P., Stannard, H., Hurt, A.C., Williams, D.T., Deng, Y.M., Barr, I.G., 2022. A novel and highly divergent Canine Distemper Virus lineage causing distemper in ferrets in Australia. Virology 576, 117-126.
Gofton, A.W., Blasdell, K.R., Taylor, C., Banks, P.B., Michie, M., Roy-Dufresne, E., Poldy, J., Wang, J., Dunn, M., Tachedjian, M., Smith, I., 2022. Metatranscriptomic profiling reveals diverse tick-borne bacteria, protozoans and viruses in ticks and wildlife from Australia. Transbound Emerg Dis 69, e2389-e2407.
Goi, J., Koinari, M., Muker, S., Vinit, R., Pomat, W., Williams, D.T., Karl, S., 2022. Comparison of Different Mosquito Traps for Zoonotic Arbovirus Vectors in Papua New Guinea. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Jan 17;106(3):823-827.
Horsington, J., Singanallur Balasubramanian, N., Nfon, C.K., Bittner, H., Vosloo, W., 2022. Investigation into the protective ability of monovalent and bivalent A Malaysia 97 and A(22) Iraq 64 vaccine strains against infection with an A/Asia/SEA-97 variant in pigs. Front Vet Sci 9, 1027556.
Jansen van Vuren, P., McAuley, A.J., Kuiper, M.J., Singanallur, N.B., Bruce, M.P., Riddell, S., Goldie, S., Mangalaganesh, S., Chahal, S., Drew, T.W., Blasdell, K.R., Tachedjian, M., Caly, L., Druce, J.D., Ahmed, S., Khan, M.S., Malladi, S.K., Singh, R., Pandey, S., Varadarajan, R., Vasan, S.S., 2022. Highly Thermotolerant SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Elicits Neutralising Antibodies against Delta and Omicron in Mice. Viruses. 2022 Apr 13;14(4):800.
Jansen van Vuren, P., Singanallur, N.B., Keck, H., Eschbaumer, M., Vosloo, W., 2022. Chemical inactivation of foot-and-mouth disease virus in bovine tongue epithelium for safe transport and downstream processing. J Virol Methods. 2022 Jul;305:114539.
Jonduo, M., Neave, M.J., Javati, S., Abala, D., Bilo, E., Kini, A., Kumbu, J., Laman, M., Robinson, L.J., Makita, L., Susapu, M., Pomat, W., Abdad, M.Y., Williams, D.T., Horwood, P.F., 2022. Genomic Sequencing of Dengue Virus Strains Associated with Papua New Guinean Outbreaks in 2016 Reveals Endemic Circulation of DENV-1 and DENV-2. Am J Trop Med Hyg.
Kanankege, K.S.T., Graham, K., Corzo, C.A., VanderWaal, K., Perez, A.M., Durr, P.A., 2022. Adapting an Atmospheric Dispersion Model to Assess the Risk of Windborne Transmission of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus between Swine Farms. Viruses 14.
Knobel, D.L., Jackson, A.C., Bingham, J., Ertl, H.C.J., Gibson, A.D., Hughes, D., Joubert, K., Mani, R.S., Mohr, B.J., Moore, S.M., Rivett-Carnac, H., Tordo, N., Yeates, J.W., Zambelli, A.B., Rupprecht, C.E., 2022. A One Medicine Mission for an Effective Rabies Therapy. Front Vet Sci. 2022 Mar 16;9:867382.
Kuiper, M.J., Wilson, L.O.W., Mangalaganesh, S., Lee, C., Reti, D., Vasan, S.S., 2022. "But Mouse, You Are Not Alone": On Some Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variants Infecting Mice. ILAR J. 2021 Dec 31;62(1-2):274. doi: 10.1093/ilar/ilac002. Erratum for: ILAR J. 2021 Dec 31;62(1-2):48-59.
Layton, D.S., Butler, J., Stewart, C., Stevens, V., Payne, J., Rootes, C., Deffrasnes, C., Walker, S., Shan, S., Gough, T.J., Cowled, C., Bruce, K., Wang, J., Kedzierska, K., Wong, F.Y.K., Bean, A.G.D., Bingham, J., Williams, D.T., 2022. H7N9 bearing a mutation in the nucleoprotein leads to increased pathology in chickens. Front Immunol 13, 974210.
Layton, D.S., Mara, K., Dai, M., Malaver-Ortega, L.F., Gough, T.J., Bruce, K., Jenkins, K.A., Bean, A.G.D., 2022. Interferon Signaling in Chickens Plays a Crucial Role in Inhibiting Influenza Replication in DF1 Cells. Microorganisms 10.
Mackenzie, J.S., Williams, D.T., van den Hurk, A.F., Smith, D.W., Currie, B.J., 2022. Japanese Encephalitis Virus: The Emergence of Genotype IV in Australia and Its Potential Endemicity. Viruses 14.
MacRaild, C.A., Mohammed, M.U., Faheem, Murugesan, S., Styles, I.K., Peterson, A.L., Kirkpatrick, C.M.J., Cooper, M.A., Palombo, E.A., Simpson, M.M., Jain, H.A., Agarwal, V., McAuley, A.J., Kumar, A., Creek, D.J., Trevaskis, N.L., Vasan, S.S., 2022. Systematic Down-Selection of Repurposed Drug Candidates for COVID-19. Int J Mol Sci 23.
Manyweathers, J., Hayes, L., Xie, G., Gardner, H., Maru, Y., Woodgate, R., Hernandez-Jover, M., 2022. On-farm evaluation of a predictive model for Australian beef and sheep producers' vulnerability to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Prev Vet Med 204, 105656.
Marsh, G.A., McAuley, A.J., Brown, S., Pharo, E.A., Crameri, S., Au, G.G., Baker, M.L., Barr, J.A., Bergfeld, J., Bruce, M.P., Burkett, K., Durr, P.A., Holmes, C., Izzard, L., Layton, R., Lowther, S., Neave, M.J., Poole, T., Riddell, S.J., Rowe, B., Soldani, E., Stevens, V., Suen, W.W., Sundaramoorthy, V., Tachedjian, M., Todd, S., Trinidad, L., Williams, S.M., Druce, J.D., Drew, T.W., Vasan, S.S., 2022. In vitro characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 and susceptibility of domestic ferrets (Mustela putorius furo). Transbound Emerg Dis. 2022 Mar;69(2):297-307.
McAuley, A.J., Jansen van Vuren, P., Mohammed, M.U., Faheem, Goldie, S., Riddell, S., Godde, N.J., Styles, I.K., Bruce, M.P., Chahal, S., Keating, S., Blasdell, K.R., Tachedjian, M., O'Brien, C.M., Singanallur, N.B., Viana, J.N., Vashi, A.V., Kirkpatrick, C.M., MacRaild, C.A., Shah, R.M., Vincan, E., Athan, E., Creek, D.J., Trevaskis, N.L., Murugesan, S., Kumar, A., Vasan, S.S., 2022. Use of Human Lung Tissue Models for Screening of Drugs against SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Viruses 14.
McOrist, S., Scott, P.C., Jendza, J., Paynter, D., Certoma, A., Izzard, L., Williams, D.T., 2022. Analysis of acidified feed components containing African swine fever virus. Res Vet Sci 152, 248-260.
Moody, N.J.G., Mohr, P.G., Williams, L.M., Cummins, D.M., Hoad, J., Slater, J., Valdeter, S.T., Colling, A., Singanallur, N.B., Gardner, I.A., Gudkovs, N., Crane, M.S.J., 2022. Performance characteristics of two real-time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction assays for the detection of WSSV in clinically diseased and apparently healthy prawns. Dis Aquat Organ 150, 169-182.
Munoz-Fontela, C., Widerspick, L., Albrecht, R.A., Beer, M., Carroll, M.W., de Wit, E., Diamond, M.S., Dowling, W.E., Funnell, S.G.P., Garcia-Sastre, A., Gerhards, N.M., de Jong, R., Munster, V.J., Neyts, J., Perlman, S., Reed, D.S., Richt, J.A., Riveros-Balta, X., Roy, C.J., Salguero, F.J., Schotsaert, M., Schwartz, L.M., Seder, R.A., Segales, J., Vasan, S.S., Henao-Restrepo, A.M., Barouch, D.H., 2022. Advances and gaps in SARS-CoV-2 infection models. PLoS Pathog. 2022 Jan 13;18(1):e1010161. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010161. PMID: 35025969; PMCID: PMC8757994.
Neave, M.J., Mileto, P., Joseph, A., Reid, T.J., Scott, A., Williams, D.T., Keyburn, A.L., 2022. Comparative genomic analysis of the first Ehrlichia canis detections in Australia. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2022 May;13(3):101909.
Papageorgiou, K.V., Michailidou, M., Grivas, I., Petridou, E., Stamelou, E., Efraimidis, K., Chen, L., Drew, T.W., Kritas, S.K., 2022. Bartha-K61 vaccine protects nursery pigs against challenge with novel european and asian strains of suid herpesvirus 1. Vet Res 53, 47.
Sarker, S., Bowden, T.R., Boyle, D.B., 2022. Evidence of a Possible Viral Host Switch Event in an Avipoxvirus Isolated from an Endangered Northern Royal Albatross (Diomedea sanfordi)Viruses. 2022 Feb 1;14(2):302.
Sikazwe, C., Neave, M.J., Michie, A., Mileto, P., Wang, J., Cooper, N., Levy, A., Imrie, A., Baird, R.W., Currie, B.J., Speers, D., Mackenzie, J.S., Smith, D.W., Williams, D.T., 2022. Molecular detection and characterisation of the first Japanese encephalitis virus belonging to genotype IV acquired in Australia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 16, e0010754.
Singanallur, N.B., Eblé, P.L., Ludi, A.B., Statham, B., Bin-Tarif, A., King, D.P., Dekker, A., Vosloo, W., 2022. A Vaccine Based on the A/ASIA/G-VII Lineage of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Offers Low Levels of Protection against Circulating Viruses from the A/ASIA/Iran-05 lineage. Viruses 14.
Singanallur, N.B., van Vuren, P.J., McAuley, A.J., Bruce, M.P., Kuiper, M.J., Gwini, S.M., Riddell, S., Goldie, S., Drew, T.W., Blasdell, K.R., Tachedjian, M., Mangalaganesh, S., Chahal, S., Caly, L., Druce, J.D., Juno, J.A., Kent, S.J., Wheatley, A.K., Vasan, S.S., 2022. At Least Three Doses of Leading Vaccines Essential for Neutralisation of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant. Front Immunol. 2022 May 17;13:883612.
Singh, R., White, J.F., de Vries, M., Beddome, G., Dai, M., Bean, A.G., Mulet, X., Layton, D., Doherty, C.M., 2022. Biomimetic metal-organic frameworks as protective scaffolds for live-virus encapsulation and vaccine stabilization. Acta Biomater 142, 320-331.
Van Brussel, K., Mahar, J.E., Ortiz-Baez, A.S., Carrai, M., Spielman, D., Boardman, W.S.J., Baker, M.L., Beatty, J.A., Geoghegan, J.L., Barrs, V.R., Holmes, E.C., 2022. Faecal virome of the Australian grey-headed flying fox from urban/suburban environments contains novel coronaviruses, retroviruses and sapoviruses. Virology 576, 42-51.
van den Bergh, C., Thompson, P.N., Swanepoel, R., Almeida, A.P.G., Paweska, J.T., Jansen van Vuren, P., Wilson, W.C., Kemp, A., Venter, E.H., 2022. Detection of Rift Valley Fever Virus in Aedes (Aedimorphus) durbanensis, South Africa. Pathogens. 2022 Jan 21;11(2):125..
van Geelen, C.T., Savas, P., Teo, Z.L., Luen, S.J., Weng, C.F., Ko, Y.A., Kuykhoven, K.S., Caramia, F., Salgado, R., Francis, P.A., Dawson, S.J., Fox, S.B., Fellowes, A., Loi, S., 2022. Correction to: Clinical implications of prospective genomic profiling of metastatic breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Res 24, 50.
Waller, C., Tiemensma, M., Currie, B.J., Williams, D.T., Baird, R.W., Krause, V.L., 2022. Japanese Encephalitis in Australia - A Sentinel Case. N Engl J Med 387, 661-662.
Wille, M., Grillo, V., Ban de Gouvea Pedroso, S., Burgess, G.W., Crawley, A., Dickason, C., Hansbro, P.M., Hoque, M.A., Horwood, P.F., Kirkland, P.D., Kung, N.Y., Lynch, S.E., Martin, S., McArthur, M., O'Riley, K., Read, A.J., Warner, S., Hoye, B.J., Lisovski, S., Leen, T., Hurt, A.C., Butler, J., Broz, I., Davies, K.R., Mileto, P., Neave, M.J., Stevens, V., Breed, A.C., Lam, T.T.Y., Holmes, E.C., Klaassen, M., Wong, F.Y.K., 2022. Australia as a global sink for the genetic diversity of avian influenza A virus. PLoS Pathog. 2022 May 10;18(5):e1010150.
Woolaston, K., Nay, Z., Baker, M.L., Brockett, C., Bruce, M., Degeling, C., Gilbert, J., Jackson, B., Johnson, H., Peel, A., Sahibzada, S., Oskam, C., Hewitt, C.L., 2022. An argument for pandemic risk management using a multidisciplinary One Health approach to governance: an Australian case study. Global Health 18, 73.
Young, A., Isaacs, A., Scott, C.A.P., Modhiran, N., McMillan, C.L.D., Cheung, S.T.M., Barr, J., Marsh, G., Thakur, N., Bailey, D., Li, K.S.M., Luk, H.K.H., Kok, K.H., Lau, S.K.P., Woo, P.C.Y., Furuyama, W., Marzi, A., Young, P.R., Chappell, K.J., Watterson, D., 2022. A platform technology for generating subunit vaccines against diverse viral pathogens. Front Immunol 13, 963023.
Karpe AV, Nguyen TV, Shah RM, Au GG, McAuley AJ, Marsh GA, Riddell S, Vasan SS, Beale DJ. A Time-Series Metabolomic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Ferret Model. Metabolites. 2022 Nov 21;12(11):1151
Annand EJ, Horsburgh BA, Xu K, Reid PA, Poole B, de Kantzow MC, Brown N, Tweedie A, Michie M, Grewar JD, Jackson AE, Singanallur NB, Plain KM, Kim K, Tachedjian M, van der Heide B, Crameri S, Williams DT, Secombe C, Laing ED, Sterling S, Yan L, Jackson L, Jones C, Plowright RK, Peel AJ, Breed AC, Diallo I, Dhand NK, Britton PN, Broder CC, Smith I, Eden JS. Novel Hendra Virus Variant Detected by Sentinel Surveillance of Horses in Australia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Mar;28(3):693-704.
Reid T., Singanallur N. B., Newberry K., Waugh C., Bowden T., Colling A. Validation of diagnostic tests for infectious diseases: challenges and opportunities. International Symposium on Sustainable Animal Production and Health Current Status and Way Forward. 28 June - 2 July 2021, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre. Accepted for publication in proceedings 7 April 2022.
McAuley AJ Oh Me, Oh My, Omics: Can omics approaches improve the testing of vaccines and therapies for COVID-19 and Disease X?Oct 26, 2022INSPIRE 25: International Collaboration for Global Impact42-43
Williams, D.T., Paradkar, P., Karl, S. (2022). Arbovirus Detection in Vectors. In: Tyagi, B.K. (eds) Genetically Modified and other Innovative Vector Control Technologies. Book Section, Springer, Singapore.
Agus Sunarto, Jessica Grimm, Kenneth A. McColl, Ellen Ariel, Kiran Krishnankutty Nair, Serge Corbeil, Talia Hardaker, Mark Tizard, Tanja Strive, Bonnie Holmes, Bioprospecting for biological control agents for invasive tilapia in Australia, Biological Control, Volume 174, 2022, 105020, ISSN 1049-9644,
Blasdell, Kim & McNamara, Bridgette & O'Brien, Daniel & Tachedjian, Mary & Boyd, Victoria & Dunn, Michael & Mee, Peter & Clayton, Simone & Gaburro, Julie & Smith, Ina & Gibney, Katherine & Tay, Ee & Hobbs, Emma & Waidyatillake, Nilakshi & Lynch, Stacey & Stinear, Timothy & Athan, Eugene. (2022). Environmental risk factors associated with the presence of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Victoria, Australia. PloS one. 17. e0274627. 10.1371/journal.pone.0274627.
Jain HA, Agarwal V, Bansal C, Kumar A, Faheem, Mohammed M-U-R, Murugesan S, Simpson MM, Karpe AV, Chandra R, MacRaild CA, Styles IK, Peterson AL, Cooper MA, Kirkpatrick CMJ, Shah RM, Palombo EA, Trevaskis NL, Creek DJ, Vasan SS. CoviRx: A User-Friendly Interface for Systematic Down-Selection of Repurposed Drug Candidates for COVID-19. Data. 2022; 7(11):164.
Todd Shawn, Ma Yuefang, Ashander Liam M., Appukuttan Binoy, Michael Michael Z., Blenkinsop Timothy A., Yeh Steven, Marsh Glenn A., Smith Justine R. Brief Research Report: Ebola Virus Differentially Infects Human Iris and Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells Frontiers in Virology, Volume 2, 2022,10.3389/fviro.2022.892394 ISSN=2673-818X
McAuley, Alex. How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Zika?: Development of simple, low-cost methods for the detection of mosquito-borne pathogens in the Pacific. Inspire Magazine. 2022; 25:26-27.
Hayward, J. A., Tachedjian, M., Johnson, A., Irving, A. T., Gordon, T. B., Cui, J., Nicolas, A., Smith, I., Boyd, V., Marsh, G. A., Baker, M. L., Wang, L.-F., Tachedjian, G. (2022). Unique Evolution of Antiviral Tetherin in Bats. Journal of Virology 96 (20), e01152-22.
Cox-Witton, K., Baker, M. L., Edson, D., Peel, A. J., Welbergen, J. A., Field, H. (2021). Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from humans to bats – An Australian assessment. One Health, 13, 100247.
Adamu, A.M., McNabb, L., Adikwu, A.A., Jibril, Y.J., Idoko, S.I., Turaki, A.U., Abalaka, S.E., Edeh, R.E., Egwu, G.O., Adah, M.I., Halpin, K., 2022. Henipavirus sero-surveillance in horses and pigs from Northern Nigeria. Frontiers in Virology, 2, 929715.
Rawlinson SM, Zhao T, Ardipradja K, Zhang Y, Veugelers PF, Harper JA, David CT, Sundaramoorthy V, Moseley GW. Henipaviruses and lyssaviruses target nucleolar Treacle protein and regulate ribosomal RNA synthesis. Traffic. 2022 Dec 8. doi: 10.1111/tra.12877. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36479968
Connors MG, Chen H, Li H, Edmonds A, Smith KA, Gell C, Clitheroe K, Miller IM, Walker KL, Nunn JS, Nguyen L, Quinane LN, Andreoli CM, Galea JA, Quan B, Sandiford K, Wallis B, Anderson ML, Canziani EV, Craven J, Hakim RRC, Lowther R, Maneylaws C, Menz BA, Newman J, Perkins HD, Smith AR, Webber VH, Wishart D (2022) Citizen scientists track a charismatic carnivore: Mapping the spread and impact of the South African Mantis (Miomantidae, Miomantis caffra) in Australia. Journal of Orthoptera Research 31(1): 69-82.
Blasdell KR, Morand S, Laurance SGW, Doggett SL, Hahs A, Trinh K, Perera D, Firth C. Rats and the city: Implications of urbanization on zoonotic disease risk in Southeast Asia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Sep 27;119(39):e2112341119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2112341119. Epub 2022 Sep 19. PMID: 36122224; PMCID: PMC9522346
Australia’s submission of Confidence Building Measure “C” with respect to the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group and the Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) is as follows:
Sensors and Effectors Division, Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group
The policy of the Defence Science and Technology Group is to publish results of general scientific value in open literature. Information that is more specialised and relevant particularly to defence is published in laboratory reports, which are unclassified and available to the public, unless they contain information that might prejudice the security of Australia or information that is “commercial-in-confidence”. Most results of the biological research will be either unclassified or “commercial-in-confidence”.
Journal Papers
Batinovic, S., Stanton, C.R., Rice, D.T.F. et al. Tyroviruses are a new group of temperate phages that infect Bacillus species in soil environments worldwide. BMC Genomics 23, 777 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-09023-4.
Mayfosh, A.J.; Day, Z.I.; Unsworth, N.B.; Liu, C.-Q.; Gupta, R.; Haynes, S.; Abraham, R.; Abraham, S.; Shaw, Z.L.; Walia, S.; et al. GS-2: A Novel Broad-Spectrum Agent for Environmental Microbial Control. Biomolecules 2022, 12, 1293. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12091293.
de Vries EM, Cogan NOI, Gubala AJ, Mee PT, O'Riley KJ, Rodoni BC, Lynch SE. Rapid, in-field deployable, avian influenza virus haemagglutinin characterisation tool using MinION technology. Sci Rep. 2022 Jul 13;12(1):11886. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-16048-y. PMID: 35831457; PMCID: PMC9279447.
Conference papers/proceedings or book chapters
Unsworth NB, P Rajasekaran, R Gupta, J Akter, ZT Cooper and C-Q Liu (2022). Assessment of Antibiotics using the Hollow Fibre Infection Model to Identify Improved Melioidosis Therapeutics. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference; Dec 2022, San Francisco USA.
Chun Liu, Pravin Rajasekaran, Ruchi Gupta and Nathan Unsworth (2022). Evaluation of inhalational levofloxacin for treating anthrax in the dynamic hollow fibre infection model. CBRNE Research & Innovation (5th international conference), May 2022, Lille, France.
Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP)
Consistent with the goal of encouraging publication of results and promotion of use of knowledge, ACDP has compiled the following list of relevant contributions for 2021:
Journal Papers