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Alimuddin Zumla
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 827
Citations - 53244
Alimuddin Zumla is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 747 publications receiving 43284 citations. Previous affiliations of Alimuddin Zumla include Royal Free Hospital & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health - The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China.
David S.C. Hui,Esam Ei Azhar,Tariq A. Madani,Francine Ntoumi,Richard Kock,Osman Dar,Giuseppe Ippolito,Timothy D. McHugh,Ziad A. Memish,Christian Drosten,Alimuddin Zumla,Eskild Petersen +11 more
TL;DR: The recent outbreak of clusters of viral pneumonia due to a 2019-nCoV in the Wuhan market poses significant threats to international health and may be related to sale of bush meat derived from wild or captive sources at the seafood market.
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Real-time RT-PCR normalisation; strategies and considerations
TL;DR: This review discusses the relative merits of different normalisation strategies, suggests a method of validation that will enable the measurement of biologically meaningful results and discusses the popular practice of measuring an internal reference or housekeeping gene.
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Coronaviruses - drug discovery and therapeutic options.
TL;DR: The epidemiology, virology, clinical features and current treatment strategies of SARS and MERS are summarized, and the discovery and development of new virus-based and host-based therapeutic options for CoV infections are discussed.
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Epidemiological, demographic, and clinical characteristics of 47 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease from Saudi Arabia: a descriptive study
Abdullah M. Assiri,Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,Abdullah A Al-Rabeeah,Fahad Alrabiah,Sami Al-Hajjar,Ali Albarrak,Hesham Flemban,Wafa N. Al-Nassir,Hanan H. Balkhy,Rafat F. Alhakeem,Hatem Q. Makhdoom,Alimuddin Zumla,Alimuddin Zumla,Ziad A. Memish +13 more
TL;DR: Disease caused by MERS-CoV presents with a wide range of clinical manifestations and is associated with substantial mortality in admitted patients who have medical comorbidities, and major gaps in knowledge of the epidemiology, community prevalence, and clinical spectrum of infection and disease need urgent definition.
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Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Abdullah M. Assiri,Allison McGeer,Trish M. Perl,Connie S. Price,Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah,Derek A. T. Cummings,Zaki N. Alabdullatif,Maher Assad,Abdulmohsen Almulhim,Hatem Q. Makhdoom,Hossam Madani,Rafat F. Alhakeem,Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,Matthew Cotten,Simon J. Watson,Paul Kellam,Paul Kellam,Alimuddin Zumla,Alimuddin Zumla,Ziad A. Memish +19 more
TL;DR: Person-to-person transmission of MERS-CoV can occur in health care settings and may be associated with considerable morbidity and surveillance and infection-control measures are critical to a global public health response.