Liz Tim Davis Jones EA TW MBBS FRACP PhD MBBS DCH FRACP MD Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; Clinical Lead, Diabetes and Obesity Research Co-head, Diabetes and Obesity Research Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; ...

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Nurses consider antimicrobial stewardship activities within their roles, but are underutilised in antimicrobial stewardship programs ...

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• 2017
• June 2017

Pat Peter Susan Tom Jennifer Holt Richmond Prescott Snelling Kent PG PC SL T J PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP RN Emeritus Honorary Researcher Head, Vaccine Trials Group ...

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To determine the contribution of RSV to the subsequent development of severe asthma in different subgroups of children at risk of severe RSV disease. ...

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• 2017
• November 2017

No new safety concerns were identified for live attenuated herpes zoster vaccine in this study based on a novel, Australian primary care data source ...

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• 2020
• May 2020

Influenza (commonly known as the flu) is caused by a highly contagious virus spread mainly through coughing and sneezing. An annual flu vaccination is the most effective way to prevent flu outbreaks. ...

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Indigenous Australians harbour rich and unique genomic diversity. However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestries are historically under-represented in genomics research and almost completely missing from reference datasets. Addressing this representation gap is critical, both to advance our understanding of global human genomic diversity and as a prerequisite for ensuring equitable outcomes in genomic medicine. ...

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• 2023
• December 2023

Optic pathway gliomas (OPGs) are associated with significant risk of visual and endocrine morbidity, but data on long-term outcomes in symptomatic patients is sparse. This study reviews the clinical course, disease progression, survival outcomes and long-term sequelae in pediatric patients with symptomatic OPGs in our institution over three decades. ...

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• 2023
• July 2023

Pneumonia remains a leading cause of hospitalization and death among young children worldwide, and the diagnostic challenge of differentiating bacterial from non-bacterial pneumonia is the main driver of antibiotic use for treating pneumonia in children. Causal Bayesian networks (BNs) serve as powerful tools for this problem as they provide clear maps of probabilistic relationships between variables and produce results in an explainable way by incorporating both domain expert knowledge and numerical data. ...

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• 2023
• March 2023

RV1 and RV5 were both effective in preventing laboratory confirmed and notified rotavirus infections among children aged <5 years ...

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• 2019
• September 2019

A single dose of rubella vaccine will take longer to reduce the burden of rubella and will be less robust to lower vaccine coverage ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

The need for coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination in different age groups and populations is a subject of great uncertainty and an ongoing global debate. Critical knowledge gaps regarding COVID-19 vaccination include the duration of protection offered by different priming and booster vaccination regimens in different populations, including homologous or heterologous schedules. ...

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• 2023
• March 2023