Systematic review of antibiotic duration and timing of intravenous to oral switch for paediatric infectious diseases and evidence-graded recommendations ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• August 2016

Andrew Desiree Gail Kandice Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Silva Alvares Varcin AJ DS GA KJ PhD MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD PhD M.Psych (Clinical), PhD Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at Telethon Kids and University of Western ...

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Invasive fungal disease (IFD) remains a common and serious complication in children treated for leukaemia. Antifungal prescription in children with leukaemia presents unique challenges, particularly due to variation in IFD risk between and within leukaemia treatment protocols, drug toxicities and interactions between antifungals and chemotherapeutic agents. ...

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• 2022
• May 2022

As malaria incidence decreases and more countries move towards elimination, maps of malaria risk in low-prevalence areas are increasingly needed. For low-burden areas, disaggregation regression models have been developed to estimate risk at high spatial resolution from routine surveillance reports aggregated by administrative unit polygons. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Elevated antimicrobial proteins and peptides and cytokines in middle ear effusion are a marker of inflammation and bacterial persistence ...

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• 2019
• December 2019

Children with medical comorbidities are at greater risk for severe influenza and poorer clinical outcomes. Despite recommendations and funding, influenza vaccine coverage remains inadequate in these children. We aimed to systematically review literature assessing interventions targeting influenza vaccine coverage in children with comorbidities and assess the impact on influenza vaccine coverage. ...

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• 2021
• March 2021

COVID-19-associated non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) have disrupted respiratory viral transmission. We quantified the changes in paediatric hospital admissions in 2020 from five different NPI phases in Western Australia for acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in children in the context of all-cause admissions. ...

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• 2021
• November 2021

There is a lack of data on the out-of-hospital burden of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in developed countries. ...

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• 2012
• August 2012

This study aimed to examine the pattern of stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate disparities over time in Western Australia ...

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• 2019
• November 2019

Vaccination trials in high endemicity areas are needed to provide evidence and guidance on idea strategies to protect children in these areas against infections ...

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• 2017
• December 2017

Samantha Christopher Valerie Carla Carlson Blyth Swift Puca SC CC VS CP BSc MPH PhD MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BSc, MPH, MIDI Senior Research Officer Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases; Co-Head, Infectious Diseases ...

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In the 1990s pneumonia hospitalisation rates in Western Australia (WA) were 13 times higher in Indigenous children than in non-Indigenous children... ...

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• 2012
• June 2012