Recruitment of large numbers of pediatric pneumonia and meningitis cases and community controls in a third-world setting presents unique challenges ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

Skin infections are a significant cause of severe disease, requiring hospitalization in Western Australian children, particularly with Aboriginal children ...

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• 2017
• November 2017

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

Deborah Peter Peter Lehmann Jacoby Richmond D PJ PC AO, MBBS, MSc BA (Hons) MSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP Honorary Emeritus Fellow Biostatistician Head, Vaccine Trials Group Peter.Jacoby@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Emeritus Fellow Biostatistician Head, ...

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Infant vaccination with 3 doses of PCV10 or PCV13 is safe and immunogenic in a highly endemic setting ...

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• 2019
• April 2019

Jenefer Timo Sarra Blackwell Lassmann Jamieson JM T SE BSc with First Class Honours, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, FAA BSc (Hons) MSc PhD BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Head, Genetics & Health Feilman Fellow; Program Head, Precision Health and Team Lead, Computational ...

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Middle ear infections are one of the main reasons that children visit a GP, are prescribed antibiotics and need surgery. Aboriginal children are particularly susceptible and commonly suffer from hearing loss which can affect speech and learning. ...

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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

Tom Snelling T BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research 08 6319 1817 tom.snelling@telethonkids.org.au Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research Professor Tom Snelling is Head of the Infectious Disease ...

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Despite universal access to government-funded direct-acting antivirals in 2016, the rate of hepatitis C treatment uptake in Australia has declined substantially. Most hepatitis C is related to injecting drug use; reducing the hepatitis C burden among people who inject drugs is, therefore, paramount to reach hepatitis C elimination targets.  ...

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• 2024
• July 2024

Receiving vaccines at or close to their due date (vaccination timeliness) is a now key measure of program performance. However, studies comprehensively examining predictors of delayed infant vaccination are lacking. We aimed to identify predictors of short and longer-term delays in diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccination by dose number and ethnicity. ...

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• 2020
• August 2020

Influenza infection in young children has a significant impact on medication use, absenteeism and the use of health care service ...

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• 2019
• January 2019