Ross Andrews

Estimation of the force of infection and infectious period of skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data

Michael J Lydeamore, Patricia T Campbell, David J Price, Yue Wu, Adrian J Marcato, Will Cuningham, Jonathan R Carapetis, Ross M Andrews, Malcolm McDonald, Jodie McVernon, Steven YC Tong, James M McCaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS Computational Biology

Prevalence of impetigo (skin sores) remains high in remote Australian Aboriginal communities, Fiji, and other areas of socio-econo..

Infant, maternal and demographic predictors of delayed vaccination: A population-based cohort study.

Heather F Gidding, Lloyd K Flack, Sarah Sheridan, Bette Liu, Parveen Fathima, Vicky Sheppeard, Peter Richmond, Brynley Hull, Christopher Blyth, Ross M Andrews, Thomas L Snelling, Nicholas de Klerk, Peter B McIntyre, Hannah C Moore, undefined ACIR linkage Investigator Team

Journal article  |  2020  |  Vaccine

BACKGROUND: Receiving vaccines at or close to their due date (vaccination timeliness) is a now key measure of program performance...

Maternal Anaemia in Pregnancy: A Significantly Greater Risk Factor for Anaemia in Australian Aboriginal Children than Low Birth Weight or Prematurity.

Martin Hansen, Gurmeet Singh, Federica Barzi, Raelene Brunette, Timothy Howarth, Peter Morris, Ross Andrews, Therese Kearns

Journal article  |  2020  |  Maternal and Child Health Journal

OBJECTIVES: To identify maternal and perinatal risk factors associated with childhood anaemia. METHODS: A retrospective cohort stu..

Acute lower respiratory infections in Indigenous infants in Australia's Northern Territory across three eras of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine use (2006-15): a population-based cohort study.

Michael J Binks, Jemima Beissbarth, Victor M Oguoma, Susan J Pizzutto, Amanda J Leach, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Lisa McHugh, Ross M Andrews, Rosalind Webby, Peter S Morris, Anne B Chang

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

BACKGROUND: The burden of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in Indigenous children of Australia's Northern Territory is amo..

10-Valent pneumococcal non-typeable H. influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV10) versus 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) as a booster dose to broaden and strengthen protection from otitis media (PREVIX_BOOST) in Australian Aboriginal children: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Victor M Oguoma, Nicole Wilson, Kim Mulholland, Mathuram Santosham, Paul Torzillo, Peter McIntyre, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Anne Balloch, Mark Chatfield, Deborah Lehmann, Michael J Binks, Anne Chang, Jonathan Carapetis, Vicki Krause, Ross Andrews, Tom Snelling, Paul Licciardi, Peter Morris, Amanda Jane Leach

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Streptococcus pneumoniae and non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) are major otitis media pathogens that densel..

Antibiotic use for Australian Aboriginal children in three remote Northern Territory communities

Timothy Howarth, Raelene Brunette, Tanya Davies, Ross M Andrews, Bhavini K Patel, Steven Tong, Federica Barzi, Therese M Kearns

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

OBJECTIVE: To describe antibiotic prescription rates for Australian Aboriginal children aged <2 years living in three remote North..

A Rationale for Change: An Increase in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Fully Vaccinated Children.

Christopher C Blyth, Sanjay Jayasinghe, Ross M Andrews

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Infectious Diseases

Increasing numbers of cases of invasive pneumococcal disease in fully vaccinated children have occurred in Australia since 2013. A..

The impact of rapid molecular diagnostic testing for respiratory viruses on outcomes for emergency department patients.

Anthea L Katelaris, Ross M Andrews, Jeremy McAnulty

Journal article  |  2020  |  Medical Journal of Australia

Birth outcomes in Aboriginal mother-infant pairs from the Northern Territory, Australia, who received 23-valent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccination during pregnancy, 2006-2011: The PneuMum randomised controlled trial.

Lisa McHugh, Michael Binks, Robert S Ware, Tom Snelling, Sandra Nelson, Jane Nelson, Melissa Dunbar, E Kim Mulholland, Ross M Andrews

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

BACKGROUND: Pregnant women and infants <6 months old have a high baseline risk for pneumococcal disease compared to the general po..

Protocol for a cluster-randomised non-inferiority trial of one versus two doses of ivermectin for the control of scabies using a mass drug administration strategy (the RISE study)

Susanna J Lake, Sophie L Phelan, Daniel Engelman, Oliver Sokana, Titus Nasi, Dickson Boara, Christina Gorae, Tibor Schuster, Anneke C Grobler, Millicent H Osti, Ross Andrews, Michael Marks, Margot J Whitfeld, Lucia Romani, John Kaldor, Andrew Steer

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Scabies is a significant contributor to global morbidity, affecting approximately 200 million people at any time. Sc..