The aim of this study was to explore associations between severe respiratory infections and atopy in early childhood with persisting wheeze and asthm…
Information is accumulating which implicates airway inflammation resulting from respiratory viral infections, acting against a background of atopy.
Unambiguous identification of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is not possible by conventional microbiology. Molecular characterisation of...
The functionality and effects of TLR7 and TLR8 polymorphisms on cellular and antibody responses was investigated after the first measles vaccine dose.
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between nasopharyngeal pneumococcal colonization in early life and the development of T cell re…
The aim was to document the aetiology of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) hospitalisations in Western Australian children
Vaccines including conserved antigens from Streptococcus pneumoniae & nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae have the potential to reduce of otitis media.
Here we employ whole blood assays to evaluate human cytokine responses to 11 of these antigens, in comparison to known defined and crude antigen prep…
We report vaccine efficacy against CIN3+ and adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) in the end-of-study analysis of PATRICIA (PApilloma TRIal against Cancer In…
Both bacteria and viruses play a role in the development of acute otitis media, however, the importance of specific viruses is unclear.