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DR JOE TORRESI



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine - Austin Health and Northern Health
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.medrmhwh.unimelb.edu.au/staff/academic/torresi.html
Work: 8345 3262
Fax: 9318 1157
Room: 323
Level: 04
Building: Clinical Sciences
Campus: Royal Melbourne Hospital

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Molecular virology Australia
signal traansduction Australia
Immunology Australia
infectious diseases Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Germany Universitaet Tuebingen Exchange, Research, Teaching, Technical Assistance/Training
Germany Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Australia Burnet Institute Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medical Science University of Melbourne 01-Nov-1987
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery University of Melbourne 01-Nov-1987
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 01-Nov-1997

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Member 01-Jan-1996
Member Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Member 01-Jan-1996
Member International Society for Travel Medicine member 01-Jan-1999
Member Australian Centre for Hepatitis Research member 01-Jan-1999
Member American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases member 01-Jan-2004

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) 01-Nov-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Restoration of HBV replication fitness by the development of compensatory mutations in the viral polymerase Chief Investigator NHMRC Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Scholarship 01/01/2002
Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases Chief Investigator NHMRC Centres of Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) 01/01/2003
GB virus-B/HCV chimeras to evaluate potential self-adjuvanting HCV vaccines that generate neutralising antibody in vivo Chief Investigator ACH2 Research Grant (AUST CENTRE FOR HEPATITIS & HIV VIROLOGY) 01/01/2004
RECOMBINANT HCV CORE-E1-GFP-E2 VLPS PROVIDING AUTHENTIC PARTICLES TO STUDY NEUTRALISING ANTIBODY RESPONSES TO HCV Chief Investigator AUST CENTRE FOR HEPATITIS & HIV VIROLOGY Research Grant 01/07/2005
A New Method for Vaccine Design Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
Humoral and neutralizing antibody responses to self adjuvanting recombinant hcv virus like particles Principal Supervisor GLAXOSMITHKLINE AUSTRALIA GSK Post Graduate Support Grant 01/12/2007
HUMORAL AND NEUTRALISING ANTIBODY RESPONSES TO SELF-ADJUVANTING RECOMBINANT HCV VIRUS LIKE PARTICLES Chief Investigator ROCHE PRODUCTS PTY LTD Pillar Awards 01/01/2008
BIOMEDICAL - VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AND ANTIBODY RESPONSE USING HEPATITIS C VIRUS LIKE PARTICLES Principal Supervisor NHMRC Scholarships 01/01/2008
Swine influenza: epidemiology and virology of the Victorian epidemic Chief Investigator NHMRC H1N1 Influenza 01/01/2009
Modulation of cell signaling and apoptosis pathways by hepatitis B virus and association with hepatocarcinogenesis Chief Investigator SIR EDWARD DUNLOP MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION Medical Research Grants 01/07/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
SERVICES AGREEMENT - SANOFI PASTEUR - STUDY TO DETERMINE SEROPREVALENCE OF RESPIRATORY TRACT AND ARBOVIRAL INFECTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLERS Chief Investigator SANOFI PASTEUR S.A 01/03/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  •   TCD8 response in diverse outcomes of recurrent exposure to Hepatitis C virus.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 464-472
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  • Increasing rates and clinical consequences of nalidixic acid-resistant isolates causing enteric fever in returned travellers:  an 18-year experience


    Year: 2009
    Journal: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 963-970
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  • A global study of pathogens and host risk factors associated with infectious gastrointestinal disease in returned international travellers
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Infection
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 19-27
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  • The profile of health problems in African Immigrants attending an Infectious Disease Unit in Melbourne, Australia
    Year: 2009
    Journal: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 805-811
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Isolated core antibody hepatitis B in sub-Saharan African immigrants


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Medical Virology
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1565-1569
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  • Seasonality, annual trends, and characteristics of dengue among ill returned travelers, 1997-2006


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 1081-1088
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  • A comparative analysis of methodological approaches used for estimating risk in travel medicine
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 263-272
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  • A self-adjuvanting lipopeptide-based vaccine candidate for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 4866-4875
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  • Closing the door on hepatitis B
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Hepatology
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 338-341
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  • Failure of lamivudine to reverse hepatitis B virus-associated changes in ERK, Akt and cell cycle regulatory proteins
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Antiviral Therapy
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 221-230
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  • Fiber-modified recombinant adenoviral constructs encoding hepatitis C virus proteins induce potent HCV-specific T cell response
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Clinical Immunology
    Volume: 128
    Page numbers: 329-339
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  • Gastrointestinal infection among international travelers globally
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 221-228
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  • Human parvovirus B19 NS1 protein modulates inflammatory signaling by activation of STAT3/PIAS3 in human endothelial cells
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Virology
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 7942-7952
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  • Rabies postexposure prophylaxis in returned Injured travelers from France, Australia, and New Zealand: A retrospective study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 25-30
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  • Short Report: Health risks in travelers to China: The GeoSentinel experience and implications for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 79
    Page numbers: 4-8
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  • Vitamin D deficiency is associated with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection in immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 443-446
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A Self-Adjuvanting Multiepitope Immunogen That Induces a Broadly Cross-Reactive Antibody to Hepatitis C Virus
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Hepatology
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 911-920
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  • A chimeric GB virus B encoding the hepatitis C virus hypervariable region 1 is infectious in vivo.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of General Virology
    Volume: 88
    Page numbers: 895-902
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  • A self-adjuvanting multiepitope immunogen that induces a broadly cross-reactive antibody to hepatitis C virus.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Hepatology
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 911-920
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  • Animal-associated injuries and related diseases among returned travellers: a review of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 2656-2663
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  • Illness in Travelers visiting friends and relatives: A review of the GeoSentinel Network
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 762-763
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  • Induction of neutralizing antibody responses to hepatitis C virus with synthetic peptide constructs incorporating both antibody and T-helper epitopes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 85
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 169-73
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  • Induction of neutralizing antibody responses to hepatitis C virus with synthetic peptide constructs incorporating both antibody and T-helper epitopes.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 85
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 169-173
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  • Modulation of MAPK pathways and cell cycle by replicating hepatitis B virus: Factors contributing to hepatocarcinogenesis.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Hepatology
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 325-337
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  • Neutralizing antibodies in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection treated with (Peg)-interferon/ribavirin.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Virology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 288-294
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  • Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in returned injured travelers from France, Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 136-137
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  • Rabies preexposure vaccination in travelers.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 136-137
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Exploiting information inherent in binding sites of virus-specific antibodies: design of an HCV vaccine candidate cross-reactive with multiple genotypes


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Antiviral Therapy
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1005-14
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  • Co-infection of human parvovirus B19 in Vietnamese patients with hepatitis B virus infection.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Hepatology
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 361-369
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  • Illness in returned travelers and immigrants/refugees: the 6-year experience of two Australian infectious diseases units.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 145-152
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  • Illness in travelers visiting friends and relatives: a review of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1185-1193
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  • Impact of the hepatitis B virus genotype and genotype mixtures on the course of liver disease in Vietnam.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Hepatology
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 1375-1384
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  • Phylogenetic analysis of human parvovirus B19, indicating two subgroups of genotype 1 in Vietnamese patients.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of General Virology
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 2941-2949
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Adequate primaquine for vivax malaria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 133-135
    Publisher: BC Decker Inc(Hamilton)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Delayed onset of malaria - implications for chemoprophylaxis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 350
    Page numbers: 195-197
    Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society(Massachusetts)
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  • Highly reproducible transient transfections for the study of hepatitis B virus replication based on an internal GFP reporter system
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Virological Methods
    Volume: 121
    Page numbers: 65-72
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Imported Plasmodium vivax malaria: demographic and clinical features in nonimmune travelers
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 213-219
    Publisher: BC Decker Inc(Hamilton)
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  • Malaria in travelers: a review of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 1104-1112
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  • Neutralising antibody, CTL and dendritic cell responses to Heaptitis C virus: A preventative vaccine strategy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Current Drug Targets
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 41-56
    Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers(Hilversum)
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  • Severe hepatitis and prolonged heaptitis B virus-specific CD8 T-cell response after selection of heaptitis B virus YMDD variant in an HIV/hepatitis B virus-co-infected patient
    Year: 2004
    Journal: AIDS
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 1734-1737
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  • Travel health knowledge, attitudes and practices among Australasian travelers
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 9-15
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Dengue fever in travelers returning from Southeast Asia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 208-213
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  • Immune responses in hepatitis C virus infection: The role of dendritic cells
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 81
    Page numbers: 63-66
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Maturation of dendritic cells with lipopeptides that represent vaccine candidates for hepatitis C virus
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 81
    Page numbers: 67-72
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Respiratory tract infections in travelers: A review of the Geosentinel Surveillance Network
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 399-406
    Publisher: University Chicago Press(Illinois)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Hepatitis A vaccine failure
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 359
    Page numbers: 1948
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • Reduced antigenicity of the hepatitis B virus HBsAg protein arising as a consequence of sequence changes in the overlapping polymerase gene that are selected by lamivudine therapy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Virology
    Volume: 293
    Page numbers: 305-313
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Restoration of Replication Phenotype of Lamivudine-Resistant Hepatitis B Virus Mutants by Compensatory Changes in the "Fingers" Subdomain of the Viral Polymerase Selected as a Consequence of Mutations in the Overlapping S Gene
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Virology
    Volume: 299
    Page numbers: 88-99
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Selection of hepatitis B virus polymerase mutants with enhanced replication by lamivudine treatment after liver transplantation
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Gastroenterology
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 264-273
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  • The virological and clinical significance of mutations in the overlapping envelope and polymerase genes of hepatitis B virus
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Virology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 97-106
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis presenting as granulomatous hepatitis in an immigrant from the Phililppines with pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculous lymphadenitis, and a history of alcohol abuse


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Travel Medicine
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 216-218
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  • Cross-resistance testing of antihepadnaviral compounds using novel recombinant baculoviruses which encode drug-resistant strains of hepatitis B virus
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 1705-1713
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  • Primary muscle hydatidosis of the thigh: Management of a complicated case with combination adjunctive albendazole and praziquantel chemotherapy
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: e65-68
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