The P4 Respiratory Health for Kids Team is a multi-disciplinary group with skills in clinical medicine, physiology, psychology, and in cellular and molecular biology, that are committed to improving the lives of children with respiratory diseases and their families. ...

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A world-leading international trial examining the immune boosting benefits of the tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, has found it does not protect healthcare workers against COVID-19. ...

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• 2023
• April

Non-Aspergillus molds and non-albicans Candida contributed substantially to pediatric invasive fungal infection in our study ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• April 2019

There is no consensus about which outcomes should be evaluated in studies of pulmonary exacerbations in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). Outcomes used for evaluation should be meaningful; that is, they should capture how people feel, function or survive and be acknowledged as important to people with CF, or should be reliable surrogates of those outcomes. We aimed to summarise the outcomes and corresponding endpoints which have been reported in studies of pulmonary exacerbations, and to identify those which are most likely to be meaningful. ...

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• 2020
• November 2020

Seasonal influenza is an important cause of acute neurological disease in Australian children. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• August 2017

To investigate temporal trends in admission rates for acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in a total population birth cohort of non-Aboriginal and... ...

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• 2007
• June 2007

Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) continues to occur at high rates among Australian Aboriginal people. ...

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• 2013
• December 2013

Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) are a major cause of hospitalisation in young children ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• December 2010

The aim of the task force was to provide technical recommendations regarding oscillometry measurement ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• February 2020

The authors previously reported an increased risk of hospitalisation for acute lower respiratory infection up to age 2 years in children delivered by... ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2012
• May 2012