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Hear the facts about vaccination and infectious disease from some of Australia's leading experts: Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Dr Peter Richmond
Perth researchers are investigating a new combined vaccine to protect against three causes of potentially deadly bacterial meningitis.
Perth children are being asked to volunteer for an important national study to test the effectiveness of an influenza vaccine in children.
This chapter describes the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnostic criteria, and management principles of acute rheumatic fever.
Here we employ whole blood assays to evaluate human cytokine responses to 11 of these antigens, in comparison to known defined and crude antigen preparations.
Vaccines including conserved antigens from Streptococcus pneumoniae & nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae have the potential to reduce of otitis media.
The median number of presentations per child in the first year of life was 21 with multiple reasons for presentation.
Improved opportunities for the primary prevention of ARF now exist, because of point-of-care antigen tests for Streptococcus pyogenes, and clinical decision...
Despite the availability of measles vaccines, infants continue to die from measles. Measles vaccine responses vary between individuals, and poor...
Despite the use of measles vaccine, measles virus continues to circulate and cause severe disease