Australia’s active hospital-based surveillance for severe childhood disease

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Carlson SJ, Quinn HE, Blyth CC, Cheng A, Clark J, Francis JR, Marshall HS, Macartney K, Leask J. Barriers to influenza vaccination of children hospitalised for acute respiratory illness: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health 2021;57:409-18. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15235. [Full Text]

Saravanos G, Wood N, King C, Dinsmore N, Deng L, Britton P and PAEDS. Respiratory syncytial virus-associated neurological disease: a systematic review and aggregated case series. Journal of Pediatrics 2021;239:39-49.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.06.045 . [Full Text]

Saravanos G, Ramos I, Britton PN, Wood NJ. Respiratory syncytial virus subtype circulation and associated disease severity at an Australian paediatric referral hospital, 2014-2018. Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health 2021;57:1190-1195. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15419. [Full text]

Dinsmore N, McRae JE, Quinn HE, Glover C, Dougherty S, McMinn A, Crawford N, Marshall H, Carlson SJ, Blyth C, Lucas R, Irwin A, Macartney K, Britton PN, Wood N on behalf of the PAEDS network. Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) 2019: prospective hospital-based surveillance for serious paediatric conditions. Communicable Diseases Intelligence (2018) 2021;45. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2021.45.53 . [Full text]

Blyth CC, Cheng AC, Crawford NW, Clark JE, Buttery JP, Marshall HS, Francis JR, McRae J, Kotsimbos T, Kelly PM, Macartney KK; Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS), Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN) Collaboration . The impact of new universal child influenza programs in Australia: vaccine coverage, effectiveness and disease epidemiology in hospitalised children in 2018 . Vaccine 2020;38:2779-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.02.031. [Abstract]

Thielemans E, Oliver J, McMinn A, Baker C, Britton PN, Clark J, Marshall H, Blyth CC, Francis J, Buttery J, Smeesters PR, Crawford N, Steer AC. Clinical description and outcomes of Australian children with invasive group A streptococcal disease. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal. 2020 . [Abstract [Epub]]

Blyth CC, Cheng AC, Crawford NW, Clark JE, Buttery JP, Marshall HS, Francis JR, McRae J, Kotsimbos T, Kelly PM, Macartney KK, Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS), Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN) Collaboration. The impact of new universal child influenza programs in Australia: vaccine coverage, effectiveness and disease epidemiology in hospitalised children in 2018. Vaccine 2020;38:2779-87. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.02.031. [Abstract]

Bao J, Thorley J, Elliott EJ, McIntyre P, Britton PN. Acute flaccid myelitis – has it gone unrecognised in Australian children? . Communicable Diseases Intelligence (2018) 2020;44. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2020.44.22. [Full text]

Bao J, Thorley B, Isaacs D, Dinsmore N, Elliott EJ, McIntyre P, Britton PN. Polio – the old foe and new challenges: an update for clinicians. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2020;56:1527-1532. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15140. [Full text]

McRae JE, Quinn HE, Saravanos GL, Carlson SJ, Britton PN, Crawford NW, Wood NJ, Marshall HS, Macartney KK on behalf of the PAEDS network. Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) 2017 and 2018: prospective hospital-based surveillance for serious paediatric conditions. Communicable Diseases Intelligence (2018) 2020;44. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2020.44.49 . [Full text]

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We acknowledge that the National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (NCIRS) is on the land of the traditional owners the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the First Australians, and recognise their culture, history, diversity and their deep connection to the land. Together, through research and partnership, we aim to move to a place of equity for all. NCIRS also acknowledges and pays respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations from which our research, staff and community are drawn.