Publications

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. 2021;45. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2021.45.53 

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. 2020;44. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.49 

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. 2019;43. doi: 0.33321/cdi.2019.43.5.

McRae J, Quinn HE, and Macartney K on behalf of the PAEDS network. Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) annual report 2015: Prospective hospital-based surveillance for serious paediatric conditions. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2017;41(3).

Zurynski YA, McRae JE, Quinn HE, Wood NJ, Macartney KK on behalf of the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance network. Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance inaugural annual report, 2014. Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 2016;40(3):E391–E400.

Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) Network and National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS). Paediatric SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey 2022, Australia: Summary report. Available here.

Quinn HE, Comeau JL, Marshall HS, Elliott EJ, Crawford NW, Blyth CC, Kynaston JA, Snelling TL, Richmond PC, Francis JR, Macartney KK, McIntyre PB, Wood NJ. Pertussis disease and antenatal vaccine effectiveness in Australian children. Paediatric Infectious Diseases Journal. 2022;41:180-185. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003367

Saravanos G, Hsu P, Isaacs D, Macartney K, Wood N, Britton P. Respiratory syncytial virus-attributable deaths in a tertiary paediatric hospital in New South Wales, Australia, 1998-2018. Paediatric Infectious Diseases Journal. 2022;41(3):186-191. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003398

Saravanos G, Isabella, Wood N, Britton P. Respiratory syncytial virus subtype circulation and associated disease severity at an Australian paediatric referral hospital, 2014-2018. Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health. 4 March 2021. doi:10.1111/jpc.15419 

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 Paediatrics. 2021;239:39-49.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds

Carlson SJ, McRaec J, Wiley K, Leask J, Macartney K. Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding influenza vaccination among parents of infants hospitalised for acute respiratory infection in Australia. Public Health Research and Practice. March 2022. https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp32012202

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 and Child Health. 2021;57:409-18. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15235

Top KA, Macartney K, Bettinger JA, Tan B, Blyth CC, Marshall HS, Vaudry W, Halperin SA, McIntrye P. Active surveillance of acute pediatric hospitalisations demonstrates the impact of vaccination programs and informs vaccine policy in Canada and Australia. Eurosurveillance. 2020;25:pii=1900562 doi: https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.25.1900562 

Clark AD, hasso-Agopsowicz, Kraus MW, Stockdale LK, Sanderson CFB, Parashar UD, Tate JE. Update on the global epidemiology of intussusception: a systematic review of incidence rates, age distributions and case-fatality ratios among children aged <5 years, before the introduction of rotavirus vaccination. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2019. doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz028

Li-Kim-Moy J, Yin JK, Blyth CC, Kesson A, Booy R, Cheng AC, Macartney K. Influenza  hospitalizations in  Australian children. Epidemiology and Infection 2017;145:1451-60.

Li-Kim-Moy JP, Yin JK, Heron L, Leask J, Lambert SB, Nissen M, Sloots T, Booy R. Influenza vaccine efficacy in young children attending childcare: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2017;53:47-54.

Li-Kim-Moy J, Dastouri F, Rashid H, Khandaker G, Kesson A, McCaskill M, Wood N, Jones C, Zurynski Y, Macartney K, Elliott EJ, Booy R. Utility of early influenza diagnosis through point-of-care testing in children presenting to an emergency department. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2016;52:422-9.

Crawford NW, Clothier H, Hodgson K, Selvaraj G, Easton ML, Buttery JP. Active surveillance for adverse events following immunization. Expert Review of Vaccines 2014;13:265-76.

Zurynski Y, McIntyre P, Booy R, Elliott EJ, on behalf of the PAEDS Investigators Group. Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance: a new surveillance system for Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2013;49:588-94.

Dodd CN, Romio SA, Black S, Vellozzi C, Andrews N, Sturkenboom M, Zuber P, Hua W, Bonhoeffer J, Buttery J, Crawford N, Deceuninck G, de Vries C, De Wals P, Garman P, Gutierrez Gimeno MV, Heijbel H, Hur K, Hviid A, Kelman J, Kilpi T, Lau KW, Chuang SK, Macartney K, Rett M, Richardson Lopez-Callada V, Salmon D, Gimenez Sanchez F, Sanz N, Silverman B, Storsaeter J, Thirugnanam U, van der Maa N, Yih K, Zhang T, Izurieta H, Global H1N1 GBS Consortium. International collaboration to assess the risk of Guillain Barré syndrome following influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccines. Vaccine 2013;31:4448-58.

Crawford NW, Cheng A, Andrews N, Charles PG, Clothier HJ, Day B, Day T, Gates P, Macdonnell R, Roberts L, Rodriguez-Casero V, Wijeratne T, Kiers L. Guillain-Barré syndrome following pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A immunisation in Victoria: a self-controlled case series. Medical Journal of Australia 2012;197:574-8.

Toi CS, Dwyer DE. Prevalence of varicella-zoster virus genotypes in Australia characterized by high-resolution melt analysis and ORF22 gene analyses. Journal of Medical Microbiology 2010;59:935-40.

Toi CS, Dwyer DE. Differentiation between vaccine and wild-type varicella-zoster virus genotypes by high-resolution melt analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms. Journal of Clinical Virology 2008;43:18-24.

Li C, Burrell R, Dale RC, Kesson A, Blyth CC, Clark JE, Crawford N, Jones CA, Britton PN, Holmes EC. Diagnosis and analysis of unexplained cases of childhood encephalitis in Australia using metagenomic next-generation sequencing. Journal of General Virology. 2022 ;103(4). doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001736. 

Burrell R, Jones CA, Britton PN and the PAEDS Network. Altered behavior in encephalitis: insights from the Australian Childhood Encephalitis (ACE) Study, 2013-2018. Front Pediatrics 2021;9:667719. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.667719

ritton PN, Dale RC, Blyth CC, Clark JE, Crawford N, Marshall H, Elliott EJ. The causes and clinical features of childhood encephalitis: a multicentre, prospective, cohort study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2019.

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.

Britton PN, Jones CA, Macartney K, Cheng AC. Parechovirus: an important emerging infection in young infants. Medical Journal of Australia 2018;208:365-9.
 
Britton PN, Khandaker G, Khatami A, Teutsch S, Francis S, McMullan BJ, Jones CA. High prevalence of developmental concern amongst infants at 12 months following hospitalised parechovirus infection. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2018;54:289-95.

Britton PN, Dale RC, Blyth CC, Macartney K, Crawford N, Marshall H, Clark J, Elliott E, Webster RI, Cheng AC, Booy R, Jones CA. Influenza-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy identified by the Australian Childhood Encephalitis study 2013–2015. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2017;36:1021-6.

Britton PN, Blyth CC, Macartney K, Dale RC, Li-Kim-Moy J, Khandaker G, Crawford NW, Marshall H, Clark JE, Elliott EJ, Booy R, Cheng AC, Jones CA. The spectrum and burden of influenza-associated neurological disease in children: combined encephalitis and influenza sentinel site surveillance from Australia, 2013-2015. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2017;65:653-60. 

Britton PN, Bag SK, Booy R, Sharpe CHW , Owen KB, Zhao J, Irwin MJ, Jones CA. Probable epidemic Mycoplasma pneumoniae disease activity in metropolitan Sydney, 2015: combining surveillance data to cross-validate signal detection. Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 2017;41:E295-E307a

Britton PN, Dale RC, Elliott E, et al. Pilot surveillance for childhood encephalitis in Australia using the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) network. Epidemiology and Infection 2016;144:2117-27. doi: 10.1017/S0950268816000340

Britton PN, Khoury L, Booy R, Wood N, Jones CA. Encephalitis in Australian children: contemporary trends in hospitalisation. Archives of disease in childhood. 2016;101:51-6

Britton PN, Dale RC, Booy R, Jones CA. Acute encephalitis in children: progress and priorities from an Australasian perspective. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2015;51:147-58.

Britton PN, Dale RC, Nissen MD et al. Parechovirus encephalitis and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Pediatrics 2016; 137(2):1-11. DOI:10.1542/peds.2015-2848.

Khandaker G, Britton P, King C, Jones CA. Long-term outcomes of infectious encephalitis in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 2016;58:1108-15. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.13197

Teoh H, Mohammad S, Britton PN et al. Clinical characteristics and functional motor outcomes of enterovirus 71 neurological disease in children. JAMA Neurology 2016;73:300-7.

Ka A, PN Britton, C Troedsen et al. Mild encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesion: an important differential of encephalitis. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 2015;19(3):377-82.

Zander A, Britton P,  Navin T, Horsley E, Tobin S, McAnulty J. An outbreak of enterovirus 71 in metropolitan Sydney: enhanced surveillance and lessons learnt. Medical Journal of Australia. 2014;201: 663-666.

Britton PN, Eastwood K et al. Consensus guidelines for the Investigation and Management of Encephalitis in adults and children in Australia and New Zealand. Internal Medicine Journal. 2015; 45(5):563-76. 

Britton PN, Eastwood K et al. Clinical Focus: Consensus guidelines for Encephalitis in Australia and New Zealand. Medical Journal of Australia. 2015;202(11):576-77.

Britton PN, Khandaker G, Booy R, Jones CA. The causes and consequences of childhood encephalitis in Asia. Infectious-Disorders Drug-Targets. 2014;14:78-88.

Britton P, Ramanuj P, Easton A. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Encephalitis Consortium. Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation 2014;13(7):30-1.

Walker LJ, Thorley BR, Morris A, Elliott EJ, Saul N, Britton PN on behalf of the Australian Polio Expert Panel. Using the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system to identify cases of acute flaccid myelitis in Australia, 2000 to 2018. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2022;28(1):20-28. doi: 10.3201/eid2801.211690.

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. 9 September 2020. doi:10.1111/jpc.15140

Bao J, Thorley J, Elliott EJ, McIntyre P, Britton PN. Acute flaccid myelitis – has it gone unrecognised in Australian children? Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 2020;44. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.22

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. 

Roberts J, Hobday L, Ibrahim A, Aitken T, Thorley BD. Annual report of the Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory 2012. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2013;37:E97-104.

Roberts JM, Hobday L, Ibrahim A, Aitken T, Thorley B. Annual report of the Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory 2010–2011. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2013;37:E105-14.

Roberts JA, Hobday L, Polychronopoulos S, Ibrahim A, Thorley BR. Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2009. Communicable Diseases Intelligence2010;34:277-84.

Roberts JA, Grant KA, Yoon YK, et al. Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2008. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2009;33:291-7.

Koirala A, Gidding HF, Vette K, Britton PN, Wurzel D, Marshall H, Clark J, Wadia U, Crawford N, Richmond P. Bartlett A, Carr J, O’Sullivan M. Nicholson S, Downes M, Carlin J, Skwono J, Hannah D. Davidson A, Sternberg B von U, Archer P-L, Wood N, Macartney K. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in Australian children between November 2020 and March 2021 [Research letter]. 2022;217:43-45

Williams  P, Koirala A,  Saravanos G, Lopez L, Glover C, Sharma K, Williams T, Carey E, Shaw N, Dickins E, Sitaram N, Ging J, Bray P, Crawford N, McMullan B, Macartney K, Wood N, Fulton B, Lau C, Britton PN. COVID-19 in NSW children during 2021: severity and disease spectrum. Medical Journal of Australia 2022; 217 (6): 303-310. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51661

Wurzel D, McMinn A, Hoq M, Blyth CC, Burgner D, Tosif S, Buttery J, Carr J, Clark JE, Cheng AC, Dinsmore N, Francis JR, Kynaston A, Lucas R, Marshall H, McMullan B, Singh-Grewal D, Wood N, Macartney K, PN Britton, NW Crawford. Characteristics and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children presenting to tertiary paediatric hospitals across Australia in 2020: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open 2021;11:e054510. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054510 

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

Macartney K, Gidding HF, Trinh L, Wang H, Dey A, Hull B, Orr K, McRae J, Richmond P, Gold M, Crawford N, Kynaston JA, McIntyre P, Wood N, . Evaluation of Combination Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Varicella Vaccine Introduction in Australia. JAMA Pediatrics. 2017;171(10):992–998. 

Macartney KK, Gidding HF, Trinh L, Wang H, McRae J, Crawford N, Gold M, Kynaston A, Blyth C, Zurynski Y, Elliott E, Booy R, Buttery J, Marshall H, Nissen M, Richmond P, McIntyre PB, Wood N. Febrile seizures following measles and varicella vaccines in young children in Australia. Vaccine 2015;33:1412-7.

McRae JE, Blyth CC, Cheng AC, Quinn HE, Wood NJ and Macartney KK on behalf of the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) and Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN) Investigators. Risk factors and disease severity in Australian infants hospitalised with influenza 2011-2019. JAMA Paediatrics. 2022;58:848-855. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15857

McRae J, Blyth CC, Cheng AC, Quinn HE, Wood N, Macartney KK. Preventing severe influenza in Australian infants: Maternal influenza vaccine effectiveness in the PAEDS-FluCAN networks using the test-negative design. Vaccine. 2022;40:2761-2771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.03.042

Mcrae J, Dey A, Carlson S, Sinn J, McIntyre P, Beard F, Macartney K, Wood N. Influenza vaccination among pregnant women in two Sydney hospitals: what we can learn from women who decline vaccination. Public Health Research and Practice. 29 July 2021 https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp31232111

McRae JE, Blyth CC, Cheng AC, Quinn HE, Wood NJ and Macartney KK on behalf of the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) and Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN) Investigators. Risk factors and disease severity in Australian infants hospitalised with influenza 2011-2019. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 20 December 2021. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15857

Carlson SJ, McRaec J, Wiley K, Leask J, Macartney K. Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding influenza vaccination among parents of infants hospitalised for acute respiratory infection in Australia. Public Health Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp32012202

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 and Child Health. 2021;57:409-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15235

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.

Carlson SJ, Scanlan C, Marshall HS, Blyth CC, Macartney K, Leask J. Attitudes about and access to influenza vaccination experienced by parents of children hospitalised for influenza in Australia. Vaccine. 27 August 2019. Epub. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.08.021.

Cheng AC, Holmes M, Dwyer DE, Senanayake S, Cooley L, Irving LB, Simpson G, Korman T, Macartney K, Friedman ND, Wark P, Holwell A, Blyth CC, Crawford N, Buttery J, Bowler S, Upham JW, Waterer GW, Kotsimbos T, Kelly PM. Influenza epidemiology in patients admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2018: the Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN). Communicable Diseases Intelligence. August 2019. In press.

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;68:940–8. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy597.

Macdonald-Laursa E, Koirala A, Britton PN, Rawlinsond W, Hiewa CC, McRae J, Dalea RC, Jones C, Macartney K, McMullana B, Pillaia 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.

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.

Britton PN, Blyth CC, Macartney K, Dale RC, Li-Kim-Moy J, Khandaker G, Crawford NW, Marshall H, Clark JE, Elliott EJ, Booy R, Cheng AC, Jones CA. The spectrum and burden of influenza-associated neurological disease in children: combined encephalitis and influenza sentinel site surveillance from Australia, 2013-2015. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2017;65:653-60. 

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;64:1564-72

Blyth CC, Macartney KK, Hewagama S, Senenayake S, Friedman ND, Simpson G et al. Influenza epidemiology, vaccine coverage and vaccine effectiveness in children admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2014: the Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCan). Eurosurveillance 2016;21. doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.30.30301.

Khandaker G, Zurynski Y, Ridley G, Buttery J, Marshall H, Richmond PC, Royle J, Gold M, Walls T, Whitehead B, McIntyre P, Wood N, Booy R, Elliott EJ. Clinical epidemiology and predictors of outcome in children hospitalised with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in 2009: a prospective national study. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 2014;8:636-45.

Khandaker G, Zurynski Y, Ridley G, Buttery J, Marshall H, Richmond PC, Royle J, Gold M, Walls T, Whitehead B, McIntyre P, Wood N, Booy R, Elliott EJ. Predictors of outcome in children hospitalised with pandemic influenza in 2009: a prospective national study. Abstract for the RACP Congress 2014 – Future Directions in Health Congress, 18–21 May 2014, Auckland, New Zealand. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2014;50 Suppl 2:3.

Esterman EE, Lahra MM, Zurynski YA, Booy R, Elliott EJ. Influenza infection in infants aged <6 months during the H1N1-09 pandemic: a hospital-based case series. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2013;49:635-40.

Khandaker G, Heron L, Rashid H, Li-Kim-Moy J, Lester-Smith D, Kesson A, McCaskill M, Jones C, Zurynski Y, Elliott EJ, Dwyer DE, Booy R. Comparing the use of, and considering the need for, lumbar puncture in children with influenza or other respiratory virus infections. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 2013;7:932-7.

Khandaker G, Zurynski Y, Buttery J, Marshall H, Richmond PC, Dale RC, Royle J, Gold M, Snelling T, Whitehead B, Jones C, Heron L, McCaskill M, Macartney K, Elliott EJ, Booy R. Neurologic complications of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09: surveillance in 6 pediatric hospitals. Neurology 2012;79:1474-81.

Khandaker G, Rashid H, Zurynski Y, Richmond PC, Buttery J, Marshall H, Gold M, Walls T, Whitehead B, Elliott EJ, Booy R. Nosocomial vs community-acquired pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009: a nested case-control study. Journal of Hospital Infection 2012;82:94-100.

Elliott EJ, Zurynski YA, Walls T, Whitehead B, Gilmour R, Booy R, Members of SWINet. Novel inpatient surveillance in tertiary paediatric hospitals in New South Wales illustrates impact of first-wave pandemic influenza A H1N1 (2009) and informs future health service planning. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2012;48:235-41.

Khandaker G, Zurynski Y, Lester-Smith D, Kesson A, Heron L, Dwyer DE, Elliott EJ, Booy R. Clinical features, oseltamivir treatment and outcome in infants aged <12 months with laboratory-confirmed influenza A in 2009. Antiviral Therapy 2011;16:1005-10.

Khandaker G, Lester-Smith D, Zurynski Y, Elliott EJ, Booy R. Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and seasonal influenza A (H3N2) in children's hospital, Australia [letter]. Emerging Infectious Diseases2011;17:1960-2.

Khandaker GM, Khandaker GM, Dibben C, Zurynski Y, Elliott EJ, Booy R. Mania in a patient with H1N1: is oseltamivir the culprit or a red herring? [letter]. American Journal of Psychiatry 2010;167:1129-30.

Elliott EJ. Pregnancy and pandemic flu [comment on Hewagama S, et al. 2009 H1N1 influenza A and pregnancy outcomes in Victoria, Australia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2010;50:686-90]. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010;50:691-2.

Quinn HE, Wood NJ, Cannings KL, Dey A, Wang H, Menzies RI, Moberley S, Reid S, McIntyre PB, Macartney KK. Intussusception after monovalent human rotavirus vaccine in Australia: severity and comparison of using healthcare database records versus case-confirmation to assess risk. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2014;33:959-65.

Carlin JB, Macartney KK, Lee KJ, Quinn HE, Buttery J, Lopert R, Bines J, McIntyre PB. Intussusception risk and disease prevention associated with rotavirus vaccines in Australia's national immunization program. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2013;57:1427-34.

Buttery JP, Danchin MH, Lee KJ, Carlin JB, McIntyre PB, Elliott EJ, Booy R, Bines JE, for the PAEDS/APSU Study Group. Intussusception following rotavirus vaccine administration: post-marketing surveillance in the National Immunization Program in Australia. Vaccine 2011;29:3061-6.

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. The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal. 2020;39:379-384. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002596 [Epub ahead of print]

Oliver J, Thielemans E, McMinn A, Baker C, Britton PN, Clark JE, Marshall HS, Blyth CC, Francis J, Buttery J, Steer AC, Crawford NW and on behalf of the PAEDS investigators. Invasive group A Streptococcus disease in Australian children: 2016 to 2018 – a descriptive cohort study. BMC Public Health 2019;19:1750 doi:10.1186/s12889-019-8085-2

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;78:220-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2018.11.009.

Marshall HS, Clarke M, Heath C, Quinn H, Richmond P, Crawford N, Elliott E, Toi C, Kynaston A, Booy R, Macartney K on behalf of the PAEDS investigators. Severe and complicated varicella and associated genotypes 10 years after introduction of a one dose varicella vaccine program. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2019;219:391-99. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiy518.

Macartney K, Gidding HF, Trinh L, Wang H, Dey A, Hull B, Orr K, McRae J, Richmond P, Gold M, Crawford N, Kynaston JA, McIntyre P, Wood N. Evaluation of combination measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine introduction in Australia. JAMA Pediatrics 2017;171:992-8.

Marshall HS, McIntyre P, Richmond P, Buttery JP, Royle JA, Gold MS, Wood N, Elliott EJ, Zurynski Y, Toi CS, Dwyer DE, Booy R. Changes in patterns of hospitalized children with varicella and of associated varicella genotypes after introduction of varicella vaccine in Australia. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2013;32:530-7.

Campbell S, Crawford NW. Varicella infection in infants less than 12 months. Vaccine 2013;31:295-6.

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