We report the impact on Strongyloides seroprevalence after two oral ivermectin mass drug administrations (MDAs) delivered 12 months apart in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

A year after launching the first National Healthy Skin Guideline to address record rates of skin infections in Australia’s Indigenous communities, Telethon Kids Institute has released a new resource as part of the guideline. ...

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• 2019
• May

Read All About Germs! Comprehension Activity Growing Germs Germ Diary Word Search Tonsil Facts Poster Colouring In Build a Virus A Soapy Magic Trick ...

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This study adds to emerging data suggesting increasing importance of iGAS in low- and middle-income settings globally. ...

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• 2015
• October 2015

Professor Jonathan Carapetis – ASAVI Co-Director Telethon Kids Institute Professor Carapetis is a paediatrician and infectious disease specialist who ...

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Four Telethon Kids Institute researchers have received prestigious fellowships and four significant cohort studies led or co-led by Telethon Kids have received key grants under two new funding programs supported by the State Government’s Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund. ...

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• 2023
• November

Telethon Kids Institute has two researchers and an innovative science engagement initiative as finalists in the 2017 Premier’s Science Awards. ...

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• 2017
• July

The objective of this study was to describe the occurrence of skin infection associated hospitalizations in children born in Western Australia (WA). ...

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• 2017
• November 2017

Between 3rd - 5th May 2018, researchers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States (representing their Uganda collaboration) convened in Fremantle, Western Australia to attend the Strep A Spectrum Meetings: from Science to Strategy. ...

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• 2018
• May

For millennia, Aboriginal people's ways of knowing, doing and being were shared through art, song, and dance. Colonisation silenced these ways, affecting loss of self-determination for Aboriginal people. Over the past decade in Australia, hip-hop projects have become culturally appropriate approaches for health promotion.  ...

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• 2023
• December 2023