A wet cough in a child for more than four weeks could indicate infection in the lungs. The wet cough is caused by mucus in the airway. The mucus becomes infected with bacteria and causes airway inflammation that can progress to permanent lung damage known as bronchiectasis. ...

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Anthony Janessa Ruth Tim Kicic Pickering Thornton Barnett A Dr RT TB BSc (Hons) PhD BSc PhD PhD PhD Rothwell Family Fellow; Head, Airway Epithelial Research Senior Research Fellow (currently HOT NORTH Early Career Fellow) Co-head, Bacterial ...

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Christopher Jennifer Peter Blyth Kent Richmond CC J PC MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD RN MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases; Co-Head, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines ...

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Christopher Elke Jennifer Tom Blyth Seppanen Kent Snelling CC ES J T MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BSc PhD RN BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases; Co-Head, Infectious Diseases ...

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Over 400 million people worldwide are living with a rare disease. Next Generation Sequencing identifies potential disease causative genetic variants. However, many are identified as variants of uncertain significance and require functional laboratory validation to determine pathogenicity, and this creates major diagnostic delays. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

A better understanding of the innate immune responses by CF airway epithelial cells is needed to identify why viral infections are more severe in CF ...

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• 2018
• November 2018

Lung damage in children with CF occurs much earlier than previously thought, and proving this is related to the decline that occurs later will create new paradigms for prevention and treatment. ...

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The lung clearance index may be a useful surveillance tool for monitoring the presence and extent of lower airway inflammation and infection ...

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• 2017
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Pneumococcal surface protein A is immunogenic and natural anti-PspA immune responses are acquired through exposure and develop with age ...

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• 2016
• August 2016

Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a major otitis media (OM) pathogen, with colonization a prerequisite for disease development. Most acute OM is in children <5 years old, with recurrent and chronic OM impacting hearing and learning. Therapies to prevent NTHi colonization and/or disease are needed, especially for young children. Respiratory viruses are implicated in driving the development of bacterial OM in children. ...

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• 2024
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Graham Jenny Peter Hall Downs Jacoby GL JA PJ BAppSci PhD CRFS FANZSRS FThorSoc FERS BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD BA (Hons) MSc Honorary Research Associate Program Head, Development and Disability Biostatistician 08 6319 1763 Jenny.Downs@ ...

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The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between dust levels and health in Indigenous children in Western Australia ...

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• 2019
• July 2019