Valerie Verhasselt VV MD, PhD Head, Immunology and Breastfeeding 0402997617 Valerie.verhasselt@telethonkids.org.au Head, Immunology and Breastfeeding @valerieverhass1 Professor Verhasselt is Head of Immunology and Breast Feeding at the Telethon ...

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Population-level studies of severe pertussis extending beyond infancy are sparse, and none in the context of antenatal vaccination. We compared hospitalized pertussis cases from birth to 15 years of age before and after introduction of antenatal immunization. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Cancer cells display DNA hypermethylation at specific CpG islands in comparison to their normal healthy counterparts, but the mechanism that drives this so-called CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) remains poorly understood. Here, we show that CpG island methylation in human T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) mainly occurs at promoters of Polycomb Repressor Complex 2 (PRC2) target genes that are not expressed in normal or malignant T-cells and which display a reciprocal association with H3K27me3 binding. ...

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• 2020
• November 2020

Patients using insulin pump therapy had a better long-term glycemic control relative to the matched injection therapy cohort ...

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• 2018
• December 2018

Social attention can be acutely modified in children with ASD, with an increased tendency to orient attention toward faces after brief social attention training ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

This is the first study demonstrating the negative impact of antibiotic allergy labels on clinical outcomes in children ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

To assess the efficacy and adverse events of epicutaneous immunotherapy with a peanut patch among peanut-allergic children ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

We found no evidence for a difference in the timing of the laryngeal mask airways removal on the incidence of respiratory adverse events ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

Fetal androgens influence fetal growth as well as postnatal neurocognitive ability ...

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• 2010
• March 2010

Physical and mental health in mothers of children with Down syndrome. ...

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• 2008
• September 2008

Infection accounts for the majority of pediatric mortality and morbidity in developing countries, but there are limited data on the infectious diseases... ...

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• 2007
• March 2007

Mental disorders should be a leading intervention point for suicide prevention both in the primary health sector and in the mental health sector specifically ...

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• 2016
• September 2016