Christopher Asha Blyth Bowen CC AC MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD OAM Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases; Co-Head, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and ...

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Asha Jonathan Bowen Carapetis AM AC JR BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD OAM AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Head, Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Executive Director; Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH 08 6319 1000 contact@telethonkids.org.au ...

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Children with cochlear implants are at increased risk of invasive pneumococcal disease, with national and international guidelines recommending additional pneumococcal vaccines for these children. This study aimed to examine the pneumococcal immunization status and rate of invasive pneumococcal disease in children with cochlear implants at a tertiary paediatric hospital over a 12-year period. ...

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• 2022
• June 2022

Health service utilisation in this setting may be enhanced by improving general awareness of the significance of childhood skin infections ...

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• 2020
• January 2020

To determine the ability to accurately diagnose acute rheumatic fever given the resources available at three levels of the Ugandan healthcare system. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Asha Dr Anita Keerthi Publications Bowen Campbell Anpalagan #4C4184 AC AC KA BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD OAM MBBS, DCH, PG DipPID, FRACP, NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship B.Biomed (Hons) #7566A0 Head, Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Infectious ...

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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

Antimicrobials are the most commonly prescribed drug class in children. Overuse through inappropriate prescribing is a key driver of antimicrobial resistance and is recognized as one of the top 10 threats to global health by the World Health Organization. ...

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• 2022
• December 2022

The Group A β-hemolytic Streptococcus pharyngeal carriage rates seen in Uganda (15.9%) are higher than the most recent pooled results globally, at 12% ...

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• 2020
• January 2020

Improved public health measures targeting bacterial skin infections are needed to reduce this high burden of skin infections in Western Australia ...

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• 2018
• September 2018

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 ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

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

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• 2020
• March 2020