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The clinical utility of lung clearance index in early cystic fibrosis lung disease is not impacted by the number of multiple-breath washout trials

Published in the European Respiratory Journal Open Research in February 2018

Oxidative cross-linking of calprotectin occurs in vivo, altering its structure and susceptibility to proteolysis

lavage fluidfrom the lungs of patients with respiratory diseases, a substantial proportion of calprotectin

Elastase exocytosis by airway neutrophils is associated with early lung damage in children with cystic fibrosis.

Published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in April 2019

The impact of new universal child influenza programs in Australia: Vaccine coverage, effectiveness and disease epidemiology in hospitalised children in 2018

A significant reduction in severe influenza was observed in Australian children, possibly contributed to by improved vaccine coverage and high vaccin…

Factors associated with pneumococcal carriage in children and adults in Fiji, using four cross-sectional surveys

This study describes predictors of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage and density in Fiji. We used data from four annual cross-sectional surveys, p…

Factors associated with pneumococcal carriage and density in children and adults in Fiji, using four cross-sectional surveys

This study describes predictors of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage and density in Fiji

Use of health services in the last year of life and cause of death in people with intellectual disability: a retrospective matched cohort study

People with intellectual disability were more likely to experience potentially preventable conditions at the end of their lives

Exposure to bile leads to the emergence of adaptive signaling variants in the opportunistic pathogen pseudomonas aeruginosa

Adaptive variants of P. aeruginosa that arise following long term bile exposure enables the emergence of ecologically competitive sub-populations

Genetic and functional evidence for a locus controlling otitis media at chromosome 10q26.3

Otitis media (OM) is a common childhood disease characterised by middle ear effusion and inflammation.

Pregnant women urged to avoid e-cigarettes

leading medical journal, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. E-cigarettes ... e Professor Alexander Larcombe, Head of Respiratory and Environmental Heal…