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Vitali Sintchenko

Vitali Sintchenko

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
10332
World Ranking
16145
National Ranking
453

Overview

Vitali Sintchenko is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans fields primarily within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, and Food Science.

Their main research topics include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Among recent notable publications are:

  • "Revealing COVID-19 transmission in Australia by SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing and agent-based modeling," 2020, Nature Medicine
  • "An emergent clade of SARS-CoV-2 linked to returned travellers from Iran," 2020, Virus Evolution
  • "SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies: Longevity, breadth, and evasion by emerging viral variants," 2021, PLoS Medicine
  • "Trends in invasive bacterial diseases during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of prospective surveillance data from 30 countries and territories in the IRIS Consortium," 2023, The Lancet Digital Health
  • "Cell-based Culture Informs Infectivity and Safe De-Isolation Assessments in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019," 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Rebecca J. Rockett
  • Jen Kok
  • Dominic E. Dwyer
  • Alicia Arnott
  • Qinning Wang

Publications by Vitali Sintchenko are often found in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pathology
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing.

    Caroline Allix-Béguec;Irena Arandjelovic

  • Whole genome sequencing in clinical and public health microbiology

    Jason C Kwong;N McCallum;N McCallum;Vitali Sintchenko;Vitali Sintchenko;Benjamin P Howden;Benjamin P Howden

  • Revealing COVID-19 transmission in Australia by SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing and agent-based modeling.

    Rebecca J. Rockett;Rebecca J. Rockett;Alicia Arnott;Alicia Arnott;Alicia Arnott;Connie Lam;Connie Lam;Rosemarie Sadsad;Rosemarie Sadsad

  • Global Population Structure and Evolution of Bordetella pertussis and Their Relationship with Vaccination

    Marieke J. Bart;Simon R. Harris;Abdolreza Advani;Yoshichika Arakawa

  • Intercontinental dissemination of azithromycin-resistant shigellosis through sexual transmission: a cross-sectional study

    Kate Susan Baker;Timothy J Dallman;Philip M Ashton;Martin Day

  • Community-wide Screening for Tuberculosis in a High-Prevalence Setting.

    Guy B. Marks;Guy B. Marks;Guy B. Marks;Nhung V. Nguyen;Phuong T. B. Nguyen;Thu-Anh Nguyen;Thu-Anh Nguyen

  • Newly Emerging Clones of Bordetella pertussis Carrying prn2 and ptxP3 Alleles Implicated in Australian Pertussis Epidemic in 2008–2010

    Sophie Octavia;Vitali Sintchenko;Vitali Sintchenko;Gwendolyn L. Gilbert;Andrew Lawrence

  • Rapid Increase in Pertactin-deficient Bordetella pertussis Isolates, Australia

    Connie Lam;Sophie Octavia;Lawrence Ricafort;Vitali Sintchenko

  • Handheld Computer-based Decision Support Reduces Patient Length of Stay and Antibiotic Prescribing in Critical Care

    Vitali Sintchenko;Jonathan R. Iredell;Gwendolyn L. Gilbert;Enrico W. Coiera

  • The global establishment of a highly-fluoroquinolone resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky ST198 strain.

    Simon Le Hello;Amany Abdelrehim Bekhit;Amany Abdelrehim Bekhit;Sophie Granier;Himel Barua

  • SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies: Longevity, breadth, and evasion by emerging viral variants.

    Fiona Tea;Alberto Ospina Stella;Anupriya Aggarwal;David Ross Darley;David Ross Darley

  • An emergent clade of SARS-CoV-2 linked to returned travellers from Iran

    John-Sebastian Eden;Rebecca J Rockett;Rebecca J Rockett;Rebecca J Rockett;Ian Carter;Hossinur Rahman

  • Antibiotic resistance prediction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from genome sequence data with Mykrobe.

    Martin Hunt;Martin Hunt;Phelim Bradley;Simon Grandjean Lapierre;Simon Heys

  • Cell-based Culture Informs Infectivity and Safe De-Isolation Assessments in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019.

    Kerri Basile;Kenneth McPhie;Ian Carter;Susan Alderson

  • Pertactin negative Bordetella pertussis demonstrates higher fitness under vaccine selection pressure in a mixed infection model

    Azadeh Safarchi;Sophie Octavia;Laurence Don Wai Luu;Chin Yen Tay

  • Epidemiologic Evidence for Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during Church Singing, Australia, 2020.

    Anthea L. Katelaris;Jessica Wells;Penelope Clark;Sophie Norton

  • Comparative Impact of Guidelines, Clinical Data, and Decision Support on Prescribing Decisions: An Interactive Web Experiment with Simulated Cases

    Vitali Sintchenko;Enrico W. Coiera;Jonathan R. Iredell;Gwendolyn L. Gilbert

  • Insight into evolution of Bordetella pertussis from comparative genomic analysis: evidence of vaccine-driven selection

    Sophie Octavia;Ram P. Maharjan;Vitali Sintchenko;Gordon Stevenson

  • Comparison of cell culture, mouse inoculation, and PCR for detection of Toxoplasma gondii: effects of storage conditions on sensitivity.

    G S James;V G Sintchenko;D J Dickeson;G L Gilbert

  • SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies; longevity, breadth, and evasion by emerging viral variants

    Fiona Tea;Alberto Ospina Stella;Anupriya Aggarwal;David Ross Darley;David Ross Darley

Frequent Co-Authors

Gwendolyn L. Gilbert
Gwendolyn L. Gilbert University of Sydney
Sharon C.-A. Chen
Sharon C.-A. Chen Westmead Hospital
Ruiting Lan
Ruiting Lan University of New South Wales
Dominic E. Dwyer
Dominic E. Dwyer University of Sydney
Ben J. Marais
Ben J. Marais University of Sydney
Enrico Coiera
Enrico Coiera Macquarie University
Tania C. Sorrell
Tania C. Sorrell University of Sydney
Fanrong Kong
Fanrong Kong University of Sydney
Jonathan R. Iredell
Jonathan R. Iredell University of Sydney
Benjamin P. Howden
Benjamin P. Howden University of Melbourne

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