Investigators: Andrew Martin, Chris Blyth, Elke Seppanen, Jan Jones, Jennifer Kent, Kate Britton, Lisa Montgomery, Mejbah Bhuiyan, Rachel West, Tom Snelling
Project description
Children receive three doses of vaccine during the first six months of life to prevent diseases caused by the pneumococcus bacteria including pneumonia. However, the effectiveness of the vaccine against pneumonia has not been well assessed. We are conducting this study to compare the vaccination status of children hospitalized with pneumonia to that of other children, to assess the vaccine effectiveness. We expect this study data will be useful to develop new vaccines to ensure better protection against childhood pneumonia.
Collaborators:
- Professor Adam Jaffe (University of New South Wales)
- Ms Roxanne Strachan (Sydney Children's Hospital)
- A/prof Hiran Selvadurai (The Children's Hospital at Westmead)
- Prof Claire Wainwright (Lady Cilento Children's Hospital)
- Dr Sadasivam Suresh (Lady Cilento Children's Hospital)
- Dr Kathryn Roberts (Royal Darwin Hospital)
- A/Prof Helen Marshall (Women and Children's Hospital Adelaide)
- A/Prof Sarath Ranganathan (Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne)
- Dr Tanya Gulliver (John Hunter Hospital)
- Dr Sean Beggs (Royal Hobart Hospital)
- Dr Laurel Teoh (The Canberra Hopital)
- Dr Angela McCullagh (Monash Medical Centre)
- Dr David Green (Alice Springs Hospital)