Alex Salam

Specialist Registrar in Infectious Disease and General Internal Medicine

Alex has conducted field medical research in Antartica, at high-altitude and during parabolic flight. He was a Clinical Advisor at the Save the Children Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre (ETC) and subsequently Medical Director at the GOAL Port Loko ETC during the West African Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Alex is the clinicial reasearcher on the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), and is part of the core deployable team.

Key publications

A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient data from the West Africa (2013–16) Ebola virus disease epidemic
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Rojek AM. et al, (2019), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 25, 1307 - 1314
A rapid research needs appraisal methodology to identify evidence gaps to inform clinical research priorities in response to outbreaks—results from the Lassa fever pilot
Journal article

Sigfrid L. et al, (2019), BMC Medicine, 17
Priorities, Barriers, and Facilitators towards International Guidelines for the Delivery of Supportive Clinical Care during an Ebola Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Journal article

Battista M-C. et al, (2019), Viruses, 11, 194 - 194
Isolation of viable Zika virus from spermatozoa
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Salam AP. and Horby P., (2018), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18, 144 - 144
The Breadth of Viruses in Human Semen
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Salam AP. and Horby PW., (2017), Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23, 1922 - 1924

Recent publications

Effects of dietary nitrate supplementation on microvascular physiology at 4559 m altitude - A randomised controlled trial (Xtreme Alps).
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Cumpstey AF. et al, (2020), Nitric oxide : biology and chemistry, 94, 27 - 35
Comparative effectiveness of combined favipiravir and oseltamivir therapy versus oseltamivir monotherapy in critically ill patients with influenza virus infection.
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Wang Y. et al, (2019), The Journal of infectious diseases
A rapid research needs appraisal methodology to identify evidence gaps to inform clinical research priorities in response to outbreaks—results from the Lassa fever pilot
Journal article

Sigfrid L. et al, (2019), BMC Medicine, 17
A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient data from the West Africa (2013–16) Ebola virus disease epidemic
Journal article

Rojek AM. et al, (2019), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 25, 1307 - 1314
Priorities, Barriers, and Facilitators towards International Guidelines for the Delivery of Supportive Clinical Care during an Ebola Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Journal article

Battista M-C. et al, (2019), Viruses, 11, 194 - 194

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