
Sema Nickbakhsh
@semavirusepi
Public health | Epidemiologist | Scientist | Affiliate researcher @UofG | #COVID19 #flu #avianflu | Part-time equestrian enthusiast | Views my own
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18-11-2012 12:01:28
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🎥 WATCH | Dr Antonia Ho Antonia Ho discusses her role in the #CVRCovidResponse in the UK 🇬🇧 & Malawi 🇲🇼 with Glasgow Science Festival, including #COVID19 studies such as ISARIC4C, #SIRENstudy & #SARSCoV2 serosurveillance studies in Malawi 🦠 🏥 Watch below👇

Nice Science perspective on pathogen persistance by Katie Hampson and @DTHaydon! Still so much complexity to unpick science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…



opportunity to work on fantastic geospatial & phylogenetic datasets w/ Sam Lycett Joseph Hughes Robertson Sema Nickbakhsh & me developing better COVID-19 transmission models elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

CLOSING SOON: Postdoc (Easter Bush, United Kingdom) Infectious disease dynamics incorporating SARS-CoV-2 viral sequence data with Rowland Raymond Kao Sam Lycett Joseph Hughes Robertson Sema Nickbakhsh at The Roslin Institute The University of Edinburgh More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdocto…

Our investigation into 13 cases of #hepatitis of unknown aetiology among young children in Scotland, 1 Jan-12 April 2022, now out in Eurosurveillance. Public Health Scotland NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research Rachel Tayler Louisa Pollock fatim lakha Titus Divala MD MPH MS PhD🇲🇼 Dr Nick Phin 👉eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…

Important alert: quite severe unexplained hepatitis syndrome in children in UK and US. Investigations sofar seem to rule out toxicity and common infections. Annemarie van Rossum @[email protected] Please RT. Is there already a case finding collaboration in the Netherlands? eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…

Our latest publication is a risk assessment of equine piroplasmosis in the UK - now online at EVJ BEVA Journals! Thanks to collaborators Prof Lisa Boden & David Sutton Glasgow Equine Hospital & Practice and funders HBLB Horserace Betting Levy Board beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

Why has the "N1" of H5N1 come back? And what would raise concern for human health? Good thoughts on this "dramatic global sweep" and implications from Michelle Wille and Ian Barr #birdflu #influenza #OneHealth #Epidemiology science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

We UK Health Security Agency have updated our monkeypox #MPX case counts to 106 confirmed cases in the UK. A few things have changed over the past two weeks. A short explainer thread here. x.com/UKHSA/status/1…



Differing social and physical university environments affect the nature and impact of outbreaks. A team effort between university and public health research, UK-wide collaboration on virus genomics Sema Nickbakhsh Joseph Hughes MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research University of Glasgow Public Health Scotland COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium 6/6

Our MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research investigation into the Scottish outbreak of unexplained hepatitis in children is now online as a preprint medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. In this study, we used metagenomic and semi-agnostic target enrichment next generation sequencing to identify viruses in affected cases.