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More information For more information regarding the Respiratory Symposium, please contact Dr Hannah Moore.

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Clinical Professor Tobias Strunk, Dr Andrew Currie and their Neonatal Infection and Immunity Team have become the newest members of the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases.

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Congratulations to Dr Lea-Ann Kirkham - one of just 10 recipients from around the world to receive a prestigious Robert Austrian Award at the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases.

How protective is the whooping cough vaccine? Vaccination and allergy Even though Australia has high vaccination rates against whooping cough, we

The Wesfarmers Centre is pleased to announce the successful recipients for the 2018 Round 2 Seed Funding Grants. The Wesfarmers Centre Scientific

The Wesfarmers Centre is pleased to announce the successful applications for the 2018 Round 1 Wesfarmers Centre Seed Funding. The Wesfarmers Centre

The Wesfarmers Centre is pleased to announce the 4 successful applications for the 2016 Round 1 Wesfarmers Centre Seed Funding.

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Innovative research aiming to prevent the spread of Strep A using ‘friendly’ bacteria in the throat has received a $1.5 million boost in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council grants.

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Estimating the temporal trends in infectious disease activity is crucial for monitoring disease spread and the impact of interventions. Surveillance indicators routinely collected to monitor these trends are often a composite of multiple pathogens. For example, "influenza-like illness"-routinely monitored as a proxy for influenza infections-is a symptom definition that could be caused by a wide range of pathogens, including multiple subtypes of influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and RSV.