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Respiratory infection
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Assessing the impact of the 13 valent pneumococcal vaccine on childhood empyema in Australia

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  • Roxanne Strachan Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nusrat Homaira Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia School of Women’s and Children's Health, University of New South Wales—Kensington Campus, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sean Beggs Department of Paediatrics, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mejbah U Bhuiyan Division of Paediatrics, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gwendolyn L Gilbert Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stephen B Lambert School of Medicine, University of Queensland, UQ Child Health Research Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Children’s Health Queensland, Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kristine Macartney Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Helen Marshall Vaccinology and Immunology Research Trials Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital, Women's and Children’s Health Network, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Child and Adolescent Health, Robinson Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrew C Martin Paediatrics, Princess Margaret Hospital For Children, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gabrielle B McCallum Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Angela McCullagh Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Monash Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Paediatrics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tim McDonald Paediatrics, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter McIntyre Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago—Dunedin Campus, Dunedin, New Zealand PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shahin Oftadeh Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sarath Ranganathan Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Infection and Immunology, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sadasivam Suresh Department of Respiratory Medicine, Queensland Children's Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Claire E Wainwright Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Queensland Children’s Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Angela Wilson Department of Paediatrics, Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Melanie Wong Immunology, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Thomas Snelling School of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Adam Jaffé Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia School of Women’s and Children's Health, University of New South Wales—Kensington Campus, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Roxanne Strachan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia; roxanne.strachan{at}health.nsw.gov.au
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Strachan R, Homaira N, Beggs S, et al
Assessing the impact of the 13 valent pneumococcal vaccine on childhood empyema in Australia
Thorax 2021;76:487-493.

Publication history

  • Received August 18, 2020
  • Revised November 4, 2020
  • Accepted December 4, 2020
  • First published January 27, 2021.
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September 01, 2022

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