Assessing the protective effect of influenza vaccine against laboratory confirmed influenza in hospitalised children aged 6-59 months
Influenza vaccine was offered to all children aged 6-59 months resident in Western Australia in 2008, and we wished to evaluate the effectiveness of…
The changing epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease
We investigated trends in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Western Australia (WA).
Diverging trends for lower respiratory infections in non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal children
To investigate temporal trends in admission rates for acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in a total population birth cohort of non-Aboriginal…
Infection is the major component of the disease burden in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian children: a population-based study
Infection accounts for the majority of pediatric mortality and morbidity in developing countries, but there are limited data on the infectious diseas…