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Morbidity due to acute lower respiratory infection in children with birth defects: A total population-based linked data study

Children with birth defects experience higher rates of hospitalisation for ALRIs before age 2 years than children with no birth defects.

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Prevalence of and risk factors for human rhinovirus infection in healthy aboriginal and non-aboriginal western australian children

Human rhinovirus (HRV) species C (HRV-C) have been associated with frequent and severe acute lower respiratory infections and asthma in hospitalized children.

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Reduction in disparity for pneumonia hospitalisations between Australian indigenous and non-Indigenous children

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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Hospitalisation for bronchiolitis in infants is more common after elective caesarean delivery

The authors previously reported an increased risk of hospitalisation for acute lower respiratory infection up to age 2 years in children delivered by...

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Evaluation of impact of 23 valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine following 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Australian Indigenous children.

Background: High incidence and serotype diversity of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Indigenous children in remote Australia led to rapid introduction of

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Sharing the power of data at TEDx Perth

Dr Hannah Moore was one of WA’s brightest minds chosen to speak at TEDX Perth in November last year, presenting her insights into the power of data in fighting infectious diseases to a sold-out crowd at the Perth Concert Hall.

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FluBubs: Safety and immunogenicity of Early Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine

Christopher Tobias Blyth Kollmann MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD PhD, M.D., SFUW Centre Head, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases;

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Linkage of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) and state-based registers to evaluate and inform Australia’s immunisation program

Christopher Hannah Tom Blyth Moore Snelling MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Centre