Following a relative absence in winter 2020, a large resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) detections occurred during the 2020/2021 summer in Western Australia. This seasonal shift was linked to SARS-CoV-2 public health measures. We examine the epidemiology and RSV testing of respiratory-coded admissions, and compare clinical phenotype of RSV-positive admissions between 2019 and 2020. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of bacteremia, yet the epidemiology and predictors of poor outcome remain inadequately defined in childhood. ISAIAH (Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections and Hospitalizations in children) is a prospective, cross-sectional study of S. aureus bacteremia in children hospitalized in Australia and New Zealand over 24 months. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

The trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine is safe, immunogenic, provides clinical protection and should be administered annually to immunosuppressed children receiving treatment for cancer ...

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• 2016
• February 2016

Rebecca Hayley Hannah Christopher Pavlos Christian Moore Blyth RP HC HC CC PhD, MSFS, BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Senior Program Manager Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and ...

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Reductions in pneumonia-coded hospital admissions in unvaccinated children predominated in non-Aboriginal children with low incidence of pneumonia ...

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• 2019
• October 2019

Aboriginal children and children from lower socio-economic backgrounds were over-represented with OM-related hospitalizations but had fewer TTIs ...

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• 2019
• April 2019

Combining elevated CRP with the presence or absence of clinical signs/ symptoms differentiates definite bacterial from presumed viral pneumonia better than CRP alone ...

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• 2019
• April 2019

Describe the epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children and adolescents younger than 18 years from Australia and New Zealand ...

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• 2016
• October 2016

Pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality globally. ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

Hannah Huong Christopher Moore Le Blyth HC HL CC OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD MA (Dev. Econ), MA (App. Stats), PhD (Econ) MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Program Head, Infection and Vaccines Biostatistician & Data Analyst Director, Wesfarmers ...

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Hannah Christopher Samantha Minda Moore Blyth Carlson Sarna HC CC SC MS OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BSc MPH PhD M.App.Epid., PhD Program Head, Infection and Vaccines Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and ...

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We have quantified the relative influence of perinatal risk factors associated with skin infection hospitalisations in WA children ...

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• 2019
• September 2019