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Samreen Ijaz is a researcher affiliated with Public Health England in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of Medicine with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Hepatology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Neurology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The main topics of their scholarly work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Samreen Ijaz has contributed to numerous research papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • Co-infections, secondary infections, and antimicrobial use in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study: a multicentre, prospective cohort study, 2021, The Lancet Microbe
  • Inflammatory profiles across the spectrum of disease reveal a distinct role for GM-CSF in severe COVID-19, 2021, Science Immunology
  • Outcome of Hospitalization for COVID-19 in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease. An International Multicenter Study, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Development and validation of the ISARIC 4C Deterioration model for adults hospitalised with COVID-19: a prospective cohort study, 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Risk of adverse outcomes in patients with underlying respiratory conditions admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a national, multicentre prospective cohort study using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK, 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Samreen Ijaz include:

  • Malcolm G. Semple
  • J. Kenneth Baillie
  • Peter Openshaw
  • Annemarie B Docherty
  • Richard S. Tedder

Samreen Ijaz's work is routinely published in established research venues such as:

  • Journal of Infection
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological and Clinical Sciences Research Journal
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Best Publications

  • Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

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  • Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19.

    E. Pairo-Castineira;E. Pairo-Castineira;S. Clohisey;L. Klaric;A. D. Bretherick

  • Hepatitis E: an emerging infection in developed countries

    Harry R Dalton;Harry R Dalton;Richard Bendall;Samreen Ijaz;Malcolm Banks

  • Persistent carriage of hepatitis E virus in patients with HIV infection.

    Harry R. Dalton;Richard P. Bendall;Frances E. Keane;Richard S. Tedder

  • Hepatitis E virus in blood components: a prevalence and transmission study in southeast England

    Patricia E Hewitt;Samreen Ijaz;Su R Brailsford;Su R Brailsford;Rachel Brett

  • Transfusion‐transmitted hepatitis E in a ‘nonhyperendemic’ country

    E. Boxall;A. Herborn;G. Kochethu;G. Pratt

  • Hepatitis E Virus and Neurologic Disorders

    Nassim Kamar;Richard P. Bendall;Jean Marie Peron;Pascal Cintas

  • Autochthonous hepatitis E in Southwest England: natural history, complications and seasonal variation, and hepatitis E virus IgG seroprevalence in blood donors, the elderly and patients with chronic liver disease.

    Harry R. Dalton;William Stableforth;Prem Thurairajah;Simon Hazeldine

  • A comparison of two commercially available anti-HEV IgG kits and a re-evaluation of anti-HEV IgG seroprevalence data in developed countries

    Richard Bendall;Vic Ellis;Samreen Ijaz;Rachel Ali

  • Hepatitis E Outbreak on Cruise Ship

    Bengü Said;Samreen Ijaz;George Kafatos;Linda Booth

  • Co-infections, secondary infections, and antimicrobial use in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study: a multicentre, prospective cohort study.

    Clark D Russell;Cameron J Fairfield;Thomas M Drake;Lance Turtle

  • Non–Travel-Associated Hepatitis E in England and Wales: Demographic, Clinical, and Molecular Epidemiological Characteristics

    Samreen Ijaz;Eve Arnold;Malcolm Banks;Richard P. Bendall

  • The role of hepatitis E virus testing in drug-induced liver injury.

    H. R. Dalton;H. J. Fellows;H. J. Fellows;W. Stableforth;W. Stableforth;M. Joseph

  • Antibody-based assay discriminates Zika virus infection from other flaviviruses

    Angel Balmaseda;Karin Stettler;Raquel Medialdea-Carrera;Damaris Collado

  • Hepatitis E virus: Assessment of the epidemiological situation in humans in Europe, 2014/15 ☆

    Cornelia Adlhoch;Ana Avellon;Sally A. Baylis;Anna R. Ciccaglione

  • Autochthonous hepatitis E in southwest England

    H. R. Dalton;P. H. Thurairajah;H. J. Fellows;H. S. Hussaini

  • Hepatitis E virus infection in Europe: surveillance and descriptive epidemiology of confirmed cases, 2005 to 2015.

    Esther J. Aspinall;Elisabeth Couturier;Mirko Faber;Bengü Said

  • Risk of adverse outcomes in patients with underlying respiratory conditions admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a national, multicentre prospective cohort study using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK.

    Chloe I Bloom;Thomas M Drake;Annemarie B Docherty;Brian J Lipworth

  • Locally acquired hepatitis E in chronic liver disease.

    HR Dalton;S Hazeldine;M Banks;S Ijaz

  • Indigenous hepatitis E virus infection in England: More common than it seems

    Samreen Ijaz;Andrew J. Vyse;Dilys Morgan;Richard G. Pebody

  • Characterisation of in-hospital complications associated with COVID-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK: a prospective, multicentre cohort study.

    Thomas M Drake;Aya M Riad;Cameron J Fairfield;Conor Egan

  • Hepatitis E virus: Assessment of the epidemiological situation in humans in Europe, 2014/15

    Cornelia Adlhoch;Ana Avellon;Sally A. Baylis;Anna R. Ciccaglione

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Tedder
Richard S. Tedder King's College London
Mary Ramsay
Mary Ramsay UK Health Security Agency
Maria Zambon
Maria Zambon Public Health England
Heli Harvala
Heli Harvala University College London
William A. Paxton
William A. Paxton University of Liverpool
Georgios Pollakis
Georgios Pollakis University of Liverpool
Peter J. M. Openshaw
Peter J. M. Openshaw Imperial College London
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman University of Oxford
Debby Bogaert
Debby Bogaert University of Edinburgh
Peter Horby
Peter Horby University of Oxford

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