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Infectious Diseases research

The Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Health and Monash University incorporates a large clinical service and research program.

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About our research

The Department of Infectious Diseases integrates clinical services with biomedical research and teaching. Our expertise spans from general infectious diseases to HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and tuberculosis.

Our focus

We have active research studies in:

HIV
Viral hepatitis
Infections in the immunosuppressed (malignancy, intensive care and post-splenectomy patients)
Influenza
Drug resistant organisms
Antibiotic use
Infection prevention and hospital epidemiology

Find out more about our research themes on Monash CCS.

Our partners

Monash University

Publications

A multi-site, nurse-coordinated hepatitis C model of care in primary care and community services in Melbourne, Australia

Harney BL, Whitton B, Paige E, Brereton R, Weiss R, Membrey D, Wade AJ, Iser D, Kemp W, Roberts SK, Spelman T, Sacks-Davis R, Hellard ME, Doyle JS

(2022), Liver Int, 42(3), 522-531

DOI: 10.1111/liv.15107

Care navigation increases initiation of hepatitis C treatment after release from prison in a prospective randomized controlled trial: The C-LINK Study

Papaluca T, Craigie A, McDonald L, Edwards A, Winter R, Hoang A, Pappas A, Waldron A, McCoy K, Stoové M, Doyle J, Hellard M, Holmes J, MacIsaac M, Desmond P, Iser D, Thompson AJ

(2022), OPEN FORUM INFECT DI, 9(8), ofac350

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac350

Simulated Intravenous versus Inhaled Tobramycin with or without Intravenous Ceftazidime Evaluated against Hypermutable Pseudomonas aeruginosa via a Dynamic Biofilm Model and Mechanism-Based Modeling

Bilal, Hajira; Tait, Jessica R; Lang, Yinzhi; Zhou, Jieqiang; Bergen, Phillip J; Peleg, Anton Y; Bulitta, Jürgen B; Oliver, Antonio; Nation, Roger L; Landersdorfer, Cornelia B

(2022), ANTIMICROB AGENTS CH, 66(3), e02203-21

DOI: 10.1128/aac.02203-21

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