We investigated whether childhood infection-related hospitalisation (IRH, a marker of severity) was associated with subsequent adult CVD hospitalisat…
Although influenza vaccination is recommended during pregnancy as standard of care, limited surveillance data are available for monitoring uptake.
Despite a recommendation for microbiological testing, only 45% of children hospitalized for respiratory infections in our previous data linkage study…
Australian Aboriginal people have among the highest rates of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) worldwide. This paper investigates clinical diagnosi…
This paper describes a mathematical model used to predict when an epidemic of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) will occur so that preventive measure…
Children with birth defects experience higher rates of hospitalisation for ALRIs before age 2 years than children with no birth defects.
The transmission dynamics of RSV infection among young children are still poorly understood and mathematical modelling can be used to better understa…
Our findings highlight the need to consider age, ethnicity, seasonality and climate when evaluating rotavirus vaccine programs.
Influenza diagnosis codes had high specificity (98.6%) and modest positive predictive value (PPV; 84.1%) and sensitivity (86.1%) for a laboratory-con…
There is a lack of data on the out-of-hospital burden of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in developed countries.