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IIC Perth 2019The 2019 IIC Perth is a clinical training course in childhood infectious diseases, being held in Western Australia for a second time after the success of the first event in 2016.
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A decade long partnership with Wesfarmers Ltd. and the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases has led to world-class paediatric research and important collaborations fuelling the Centre’s trajectory towards easing the burden of infectious diseases.
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The Centre is committed to supporting high quality research by providing support for researchers to undertake activities of high priority to the WCVID.
Research
Comparison of three methods for the recovery of skin pathogens from impetigo swabs collected in a remote community of Northern Territory, AustraliaImmediate plating of impetigo swabs is the gold standard for bacterial recovery but is rarely feasible in remote regions.
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Ontogeny of toll-like and NOD-like receptor-mediated innate immune responses in Papua New Guinean infantsStudies addressing the ontogeny of the innate immune system in early life have reported mainly on Toll-like receptor (TLR) responses in infants living in...
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The potential impact of smoke-free facilities on smoking cessation in people with mental illnessThe aim of this paper was to estimate the degree to which smoke-free facilities may facilitate smoking cessation in smokers with mental illness by estimating...
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A genomics-based approach to assessment of vaccine safety and immunogenicity in childrenThis methodology has significant potential to identify covert interactions between inflammatory pathways triggered by vaccination, and as such may be a...
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IgG Responses to Pneumococcal and Haemophilus Influenzae Protein Antigens Are Not Impaired in Children with a History of Recurrent Acute Otitis MediaVaccines including conserved antigens from Streptococcus pneumoniae & nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae have the potential to reduce of otitis media.