Despite advances in neonatal intensive care, babies admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) suffer from adverse outcomes. We aim to describe the longer-term respiratory infectious morbidity of infants discharged from NICU using state-wide population-based linked data in Western Australia. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• July 2023

Pregnancy and early infancy are increased risk periods for severe adverse effects of respiratory infections. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (respectfully referred to as First Nations) women and children in Australia bear a disproportionately higher burden of respiratory diseases compared to non-Indigenous women and infants. Influenza vaccines and whooping cough (pertussis) vaccines are recommended and free in every Australian pregnancy to combat these infections. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• May 2023

While there are many skin infections, reducing the burden of scabies and impetigo for remote living Aboriginal people, particularly children remains challenging. Aboriginal children living in remote communities have experienced the highest reported rate of impetigo in the world and are 15 times more likely to be admitted to hospital with a skin infection compared to non-Aboriginal children. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• February 2023

A high burden of bacterial skin infections is well documented in remote-living Indigenous children and young people in high-income countries. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• November 2022

Impetigo or skin sores are estimated to affect >162 million people worldwide. Detailed descriptions of the anatomical location of skin sores are lacking. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• October 2022

These data highlight the importance of recognising Sporotrichosis in children outside an outbreak setting ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• March 2020

Admissions for ARI were higher in Western Australia and displayed greater socioeconomic disparities than England and Scotland, where ARI rates are increasing ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• May 2019

A summary of the literature regarding the use of adjunctive protein synthesis inhibitors for toxin suppression in the setting of S. aureus infections is presented ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• January 2019

There was evidence of extensive transmission of group A Streptococcus both within households and across the community ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• February 2016

Australian Aboriginal people have among the highest rates of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) worldwide. This paper investigates clinical diagnosis, risk... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2014
• September 2014