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Sarah J. Dunstan is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with notable contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work spans several subfields including infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular biology, surgery, and food science.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within infectious diseases and molecular biology, emphasizing tuberculosis research and epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, and the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. Additional topics explored include Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, Vibrio bacteria research studies, as well as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sarah J. Dunstan include:

  • Nguyễn Thụy Thương Thương
  • Maxine Caws
  • Đặng Thị Minh Hà
  • Phan Vuong Khac Thai
  • Xuling Chang

Dunstan has published in a variety of scientific venues, with a significant number of works appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other regular publication venues include The Lancet Microbe, Communications Biology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Microbe
  • Communications Biology
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Among recent papers, the following are notable:

  • Identification of bacterial determinants of tuberculosis infection and treatment outcomes: a phenogenomic analysis of clinical strains, 2024, The Lancet Microbe
  • Sources of Multidrug Resistance in Patients With Previous Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis Identified Using Whole Genome Sequencing: A Longitudinal Cohort Study, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Impaired aldehyde detoxification caused by a common human polymorphism promotes anti-bacterial immunity, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • A Bayesian approach for estimating typhoid fever incidence from large-scale facility-based passive surveillance data, 2021, Statistics in Medicine
  • MUC5AC Genetic Variation Is Associated With Tuberculous Meningitis Cerebral Spinal Fluid Cytokine Responses and Mortality, 2023, The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Host Genotype-Specific Therapies Can Optimize the Inflammatory Response to Mycobacterial Infections

    David M. Tobin;Francisco J. Roca;Sungwhan F. Oh;Ross McFarland

  • The influence of host and bacterial genotype on the development of disseminated disease with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Maxine Caws;Maxine Caws;Guy Thwaites;Sarah Dunstan;Sarah Dunstan;Thomas R. Hawn

  • The lta4h Locus Modulates Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infection in Zebrafish and Humans

    David M. Tobin;Jay C. Vary;John P. Ray;Gregory S. Walsh

  • Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

    Muminatou Jallow;Yik Ying Teo;Yik Ying Teo;Kerrin S. Small;Kerrin S. Small;Kirk A. Rockett;Kirk A. Rockett

  • Salmonella: immune responses and vaccines

    Pietro Mastroeni;J. A. Chabalgoity;S. J. Dunstan;D. J. Maskell

  • Genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for dengue shock syndrome at MICB and PLCE1

    Chiea Chuen Khor;Chiea Chuen Khor;Tran Nguyen Bich Chau;Junxiong Pang;Junxiong Pang;Sonia Davila;Sonia Davila

  • Human SNP links differential outcomes in inflammatory and infectious disease to a FOXO3-regulated pathway

    James C. Lee;Marion Espéli;Carl A. Anderson;Michelle A. Linterman

  • Reappraisal of known malaria resistance loci in a large multicenter study.

    Kirk A. Rockett;Geraldine M. Clarke;Kathryn Fitzpatrick

  • A common human TLR1 polymorphism regulates the innate immune response to lipopeptides

    Thomas R. Hawn;Thomas R. Hawn;E. Ann Misch;Sarah J. Dunstan;Guy E. Thwaites

  • A polymorphism in Toll-interleukin 1 receptor domain containing adaptor protein is associated with susceptibility to meningeal tuberculosis

    Thomas R. Hawn;Thomas R. Hawn;Sarah J. Dunstan;Guy E. Thwaites;Cameron P. Simmons

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new susceptibility loci for primary angle closure glaucoma

    Chiea Chuen Khor;Chiea Chuen Khor;Tan Do;Hongyan Jia;Masakazu Nakano

  • Frequent transmission of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage and positive selection for the EsxW Beijing variant in Vietnam

    Kathryn E. Holt;Paul McAdam;Phan Vuong Khac Thai;Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong

  • Identification of tuberculosis susceptibility genes with human macrophage gene expression profiles.

    Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong;Sarah J. Dunstan;Tran Thi Hong Chau;Vesteinn Thorsson

  • Global expansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 shaped by colonial migration and local adaptation

    Ola B. Brynildsrud;Caitlin S. Pepperell;Philip Suffys;Louis Grandjean

  • Copy number, linkage disequilibrium and disease association in the FCGR locus

    Heather A. Niederer;Lisa C. Willcocks;Tim F. Rayner;Wanling Yang

  • A global network for investigating the genomic epidemiology of malaria.

    Eric Akum Achidi;Tsiri Agbenyega;Stephen Allen;Olukemi Amodu

  • Human TOLLIP Regulates TLR2 and TLR4 Signaling and Its Polymorphisms Are Associated with Susceptibility to Tuberculosis

    Javeed A. Shah;Jay C. Vary;Tran T. H. Chau;Nguyen D. Bang

  • Molecular characterization of the staphylococcal multidrug resistance export protein QacC.

    Ian T. Paulsen;Melissa H Brown;Sarah J. Dunstan;Ronald A. Skurray

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar World Health Organization
Tran Tinh Hien
Tran Tinh Hien University of Oxford
Cameron P. Simmons
Cameron P. Simmons University College London
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Guy E. Thwaites
Guy E. Thwaites University of Oxford
Kirk A. Rockett
Kirk A. Rockett University of Oxford
Thomas R. Hawn
Thomas R. Hawn University of Washington
Richard A. Strugnell
Richard A. Strugnell University of Melbourne
Yik Ying Teo
Yik Ying Teo National University of Singapore
Chiea Chuen Khor
Chiea Chuen Khor Agency for Science, Technology and Research

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