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Overview

Paul Monis is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Amoebic Infections and Treatments
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul Monis cover issues related to wastewater surveillance, pathogen detection, and taxonomic revisions of parasitic organisms. Selected publications include:

  • Wastewater-based epidemiology-surveillance and early detection of waterborne pathogens with a focus on SARS-CoV-2, Cryptosporidium and Giardia (2021), Parasitology Research
  • Epidemiological evaluation of sewage surveillance as a tool to detect the presence of COVID-19 cases in a low case load setting (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Inactivation, removal, and regrowth potential of opportunistic pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes in recycled water systems (2021), Water Research
  • Differentiating between the possibility and probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission associated with wastewater: empirical evidence is needed to substantiate risk (2021), FEMS Microbes
  • Proposed taxonomic revision of Giardia duodenalis (2023), Infection Genetics and Evolution

Paul Monis has collaborated frequently with other researchers, notably:

  • B. King
  • Una Ryan
  • Erica Donner
  • Samantha Gunasekera
  • Mark O'Dea

The scientist has published most frequently in the following journals and venues:

  • Microbiology Australia
  • Parasitology Research
  • Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research

Best Publications

  • Discrimination of all genotypes of Giardia duodenalis at the glutamate dehydrogenase locus using PCR-RFLP.

    C M Read;P T Monis;R C Thompson

  • Epidemiological and molecular evidence supports the zoonotic transmission of Giardia among humans and dogs living in the same community

    R. J. Traub;P. T. Monis;I. Robertson;P. Irwin

  • Variation in Giardia: implications for taxonomy and epidemiology.

    R.C.A. Thompson;P.T. Monis

  • Variation in Giardia: towards a taxonomic revision of the genus.

    Paul T. Monis;Simone M. Caccio;R.C. Andrew Thompson

  • Comparison of SYTO9 and SYBR Green I for real-time polymerase chain reaction and investigation of the effect of dye concentration on amplification and DNA melting curve analysis.

    Paul T. Monis;Steven Giglio;Christopher P. Saint

  • Genetic diversity within the morphological species Giardia intestinalis and its relationship to host origin.

    Paul T. Monis;Ross H. Andrews;Graham Mayrhofer;Peter L. Ey

  • Molecular systematics of the parasitic protozoan Giardia intestinalis.

    P T Monis;R H Andrews;G Mayrhofer;P L Ey

  • Demonstration of preferential binding of SYBR Green I to specific DNA fragments in real‐time multiplex PCR

    Steven Giglio;Paul T. Monis;Christopher P. Saint

  • Cryptosporidium and Giardia-zoonoses: fact or fiction?

    P.T Monis;R.C.A Thompson

  • Enumeration of water-borne bacteria using viability assays and flow cytometry: a comparison to culture-based techniques

    Daniel Hoefel;Warwick L. Grooby;Paul T. Monis;Paul T. Monis;Stuart Andrews

  • Molecular and phylogenetic characterisation of Cryptosporidium from birds

    Una M. Morgan;Paul T. Monis;Lihua Xiao;Josef Limor

  • Biochemistry and genetics of taste- and odor-producing cyanobacteria.

    Susan B. Watson;Paul Monis;Peter Baker;Steven Giglio

  • Critical processes affecting Cryptosporidium oocyst survival in the environment

    B. J. King;P. T. Monis

  • Cryptosporidium suis n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae) in pigs (Sus scrofa).

    U. M. Ryan;P. Monis;H. L. Enemark;I. Sulaiman

  • Comparison of next-generation droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) with quantitative PCR (qPCR) for enumeration of Cryptosporidium oocysts in faecal samples.

    Rongchang Yang;Andrea Paparini;Paul Monis;Una Ryan

  • Molecular genetic analysis of Giardia intestinalis isolates at the glutamate dehydrogenase locus

    P. T. Monis;G. Mayrhofer;R. H. Andrews;W. L. Homan

  • Nucleic acid amplification-based techniques for pathogen detection and identification.

    Paul T Monis;Steven Giglio

  • A comparative study of carboxyfluorescein diacetate and carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester as indicators of bacterial activity.

    Daniel Hoefel;Warwick L Grooby;Paul T Monis;Paul T Monis;Stuart Andrews

  • Profiling bacterial survival through a water treatment process and subsequent distribution system

    D. Hoefel;P.T. Monis;P.T. Monis;W.L. Grooby;S. Andrews

  • Cryptosporidium — Biotechnological advances in the detection, diagnosis and analysis of genetic variation

    A.R. Jex;H.V. Smith;P.T. Monis;B.E. Campbell

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher P. Saint
Christopher P. Saint University of South Australia
Una Ryan
Una Ryan Murdoch University
R.C.A. Thompson
R.C.A. Thompson Murdoch University
Ian D. Robertson
Ian D. Robertson Murdoch University
Andrew S. Ball
Andrew S. Ball RMIT University
Bo Jin
Bo Jin University of Adelaide
Lihua Xiao
Lihua Xiao South China Agricultural University
Mary Drikas
Mary Drikas South Australian Water Corporation
Rongchang Yang
Rongchang Yang Murdoch University
Aaron R. Jex
Aaron R. Jex Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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