The Aussie summer provides some great opportunities for families to connect in an active and social way. But with it comes a range of factors that can impact on child and family health. ...

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• 2019
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Acinetobacter baumannii is a common pathogen associated with hospital-acquired pneumonia showing increased resistance to carbapenem and colistin antibiotics nowadays. Infections with A. baumannii cause high patient fatalities due to their capability to evade current antimicrobial therapies, emphasizing the urgency of developing viable therapeutics to treat A. baumannii-associated pneumonia. ...

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• 2024
• July 2024

Given the rise of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, alternative treatments are needed. Anti-pseudomonal phage therapy shows promise, but its clinical application is limited due to the development of resistance and a lack of biofilm penetration.  ...

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• 2023
• December 2023

Research has shown that vitamin D levels can have an impact on many aspects of a child's health, including lung growth, language development and eating patterns ...

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• 2013
• October

Anya Deborah Pat Jones Strickland Holt AJ DH PG BSc MSc PhD PhD PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA Honorary Research Associate Program Head, Immunobiology ...

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Telethon Kids Institute researchers have been awarded more than $10 million in research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). ...

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• 2016
• December

We aimed to delineate the effects of LPS and AMP on airway inflammation, and potential contribution to airway disease by measuring airway inflammatory responses ...

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• 2018
• January 2018

The respiratory tract is an attractive target organ for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications with nano-sized carriers, but their immune effects and... ...

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• 2013
• July 2013

Immunological homeostasis in the respiratory tract is thought to require balanced interactions between networks of dendritic cell (DC) subsets in lung... ...

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• 2014
• November 2014

Pat Deborah Holt Strickland PG DH PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA PhD Emeritus Honorary Researcher Program Head, Immunobiology and Immunotherapeutic ...

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