To describe antibiotic treatment durations that pediatric infectious diseases (ID) and critical care clinicians usually recommend for bloodstream infections in critically ill children. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• July 2022

Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) collection is a non-invasive, safe method for measurement of biomarkers in patients with lung disease. Other methods of obtaining samples from the lungs, such as bronchoalveolar lavage, are invasive and require anaesthesia/sedation in neonates and infants. EBC is particularly appealing for assessing biomarkers in preterm-born infants, a population at risk of ongoing lung disease. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• July 2022

To characterise the epidemiology, clinical features and treatment of paediatric cellulitis. Methods A retrospective study of children presenting to a paediatric tertiary hospital in Western Australia, Australia in 2018. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• July 2021

At the end of a 60-day course of narrowband UVB phototherapy, administered to individuals with early multiple sclerosis, there were changes in the relative proportions of circulating B-cell subsets. This study investigated phototherapy-associated changes to cytokine responses of B cells when exposed to a TLR7 ligand. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

During a pandemic when hospitals are stretched and patients need isolation, the role of hospital-in-the-home (HITH) providing acute medical care at home has never been more relevant. We aimed to define and address the challenges to acute home care services posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

School-based social risk processes in the lives of young people with chronic health conditions are likely to contribute to risk of psychological problems ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• June 2020

This commentary focuses the ways in which microbes, as an essential part of all ecosystems, provide a vital link between personal and planetary systems ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• February 2020

Strategies to address reasons for and treatment of chronic wet cough and protracted bacterial bronchitis in young Aboriginal children in remote north Western Australia are required ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• December 2019

The mutant Der p 2 had altered structure and reduced ability to stimulate pro-inflammatory responses and to bind IgE ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

This study describes the peer bullying experiences of young people with CF, and examines associations between school bullying and the psychological well-being of these young people ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2018
• January 2018

This study was designed to determine the sensitivity and reproducibility of recovering anti-streptolysin O titres (ASOT) from dried blood spot (DBS) samples ...

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• 2017
• September 2017

Adults living in the sunny Australian climate are at high risk of skin cancer, but vitamin D deficiency (defined here as a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2015
• February 2015