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

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Quinn H, Macartney K, Gidding H, Marshall H, Booy R, Elliott E, Crawford N, McIntyre P, Richmond P, PAEDS network. Varicella vaccine effectiveness over 10 years in Australia: moderate protection from 1-dose program. Journal of Infection 2019;78:220-225. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2018.11.009. [Abstract]

Macdonald-Laursa E, Koirala A, Britton PN, Rawlinson W, Hiew CC, McRae J, Dale RC, Jones C, Macartney K, McMullan B, Pillai S. CSF neopterin, a useful biomarker in children presenting with influenza associated encephalopathy?. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2019;23:204-13. doi:10.1016/j.ejpn.2018.09.009 . [Full Text]

Blyth CC, Macartney KK, McRae J, Clark JE, Marshal HS, Buttery J, Francis JR, Kotsimbos T, Kelly PM, Cheng AC. Influenza epidemiology, vaccine coverage and vaccine effectiveness in children admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2017: results from the PAEDS-FluCAN Collaboration. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2019;68:940-948. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy597. [Full Text]

Deng L, Gidding H, Macartney K, Crawford N, Buttery J, Gold M, Richmond P, Wood N. Post vaccination febrile seizure severity and outcome. Pediatrics 2019;143:e20182120. doi: 0.1542/peds.2018-2120. [Abstract]

Bao J, Britton PN. The clinical epidemiology of acute flaccid paralysis in Australian children from 2007 to 2017. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2019;79:81. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2018.11.205. [Abstract]

Britton PN, Macartney K, Booy R, Jones C. Encephalitis surveillance: a tool for outbreak detection of emerging pathogens? . International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2019;79:107-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2018.11.267. [TBA]

McRae JE, Quinn HE, Saravanos GE, Britton PN, McMinn A, Wood N, Marshall H and Macartney KK on behalf of the PAEDS network. Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) annual report 2016: prospective hospital-based surveillance for serious paediatric conditions. Communicable Diseases Intelligence (2018) 2019;43. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2019.43.5 . [Full text]

Britton PN, Jones CA, Macartney K, Cheng AC. Parechovirus: an important emerging infection in young infants. Medical Journal of Australia 2018;208:365-369. doi: 10.5694/mja18.00149. [Full Text]

Cheng AC, Macartney KK, Waterer GW, Kotsimbos T, Kelly PM, Blyth CC. Repeated vaccination does not appear to impact upon influenza vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization with confirmed influenza. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2017;64:1564-1572. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix209. [Full Text]

Cheng AC, Holmes M, Dwyer DE, Irving LB, Korman T, Senanayake S, Macartney K, Blyth CC, Brown S, Waterer GW, Cooley L, Friedman ND, Wark P, Simpson G, Upham J, Bowler S, Brady S, Kotsimbos T, Kelly PM. Influenza epidemiology in patients admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2016: the Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN). Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2017;41:E337-47. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2017.41.44. [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.