David Murdoch (academic)

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Namrata Prasad; David R. Murdoch; Hugh Reyburn; John A. Crump (30 June 2015). "Etiology of Severe Febrile Illness in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review". PLOS One . 10 (6): e0127962. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1027962P. doi: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0127962 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   4488327 . PMID   26126200. Wikidata   Q28087024.
  • Orin S Levine; Katherine L O'Brien; Maria Deloria-Knoll; et al. (April 2012). "The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Project: a 21st century childhood pneumonia etiology study". Clinical Infectious Diseases . 54 Suppl 2 (suppl 2): S93-101. doi:10.1093/CID/CIR1052. ISSN   1058-4838. PMC   3297546 . PMID   22403238. Wikidata   Q28731424.
  • Patricia Priest; Leah Toombs-Ruane; Jackie Benschop; Sara Burgess; Nigel French; David Murdoch (2 January 2017). "A One Health future to meet the AMR challenge?". New Zealand Veterinary Journal. 65 (2): 60–61. doi:10.1080/00480169.2016.1270651. ISSN   0048-0169. PMID   27973990. Wikidata   Q38782806.
  • Nora L Watson; Christine Prosperi; Amanda J Driscoll; et al. (1 June 2017). "Data Management and Data Quality in PERCH, a Large International Case-Control Study of Severe Childhood Pneumonia". Clinical Infectious Diseases . 64 (suppl_3): S238–S244. doi:10.1093/CID/CIX080. ISSN   1058-4838. PMC   5447839 . PMID   28575357. Wikidata   Q30853897.
  • Emma Kenagy; Patricia C Priest; Claire Cameron; Debbie Smith; Pippa Scott; Vicki Cho; Peter Mitchell; David R Murdoch (1 July 2017). "Risk Factors for Legionella longbeachae Legionnaires' Disease, New Zealand". Emerging Infectious Diseases . 23 (7): 1148–1154. doi:10.3201/EID2307.161429. ISSN   1080-6040. PMC   5512494 . PMID   28628460. Wikidata   Q40167102.
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    David Murdoch
    9th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago
    In office
    February 2022 June 2023