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New recommendations to stop antibiotics sooner

The Kids researchers are amongst a group of experts who have recommended that doctors can stop intravenous antibiotics sooner in children.

Temporal changes in BEXSERO® antigen sequence type associated with genetic lineages of Neisseria meningitidis over a 15-year period in Western Australia

The BEXSERO® vaccine which is used to prevent serogroup B disease is composed of four sub-capsular protein antigens supplemented with an outer membra…

Australian trachoma surveillance annual report, 2013

National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit to collate, analyse and report trachoma prevalence data and document trachoma control strategies in…

Risk factors associated with RSV hospitalisation in the first 2 years of life, among different subgroups of children in NSW

Data on risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated hospitalisation in Australian children may be informative for preventive measur…

Collaborating to prevent killer diseases in PNG

For more than a decade, The Kids Research Institute Australia and Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research have been fighting against killer in…

Immunogenetics of Parasitic and Bacterial Disease

Here we focus on more recent well-powered genome-wide association studies, including malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, and visceral leishmaniasis

Premature babies at greater risk of childhood infection

New research has found children who are born even slightly premature or underweight are more likely to be hospitalised with an infection during their…

Chronic HIV-1 infection induces B-cell dysfunction that is incompletely resolved by long-term antiretroviral therapy

B-cell dysfunction persists in patients with HIV receiving long-term antiretroviral therapy. the causes and consequences of this require further inve…

A Retrospective case-series of children with bone and joint infection from northern Australia

We report osteomyelitis incidence in indigenous children of northern Australia is amongst the highest reported in the world

Whole genome sequencing reveals extensive community-level transmission of group A Streptococcus in remote communities

There was evidence of extensive transmission of group A Streptococcus both within households and across the community