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PROF RICHARD NIGEL CURTIS



Contact Details

Organization: Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital
Position: CHAIR OF PAEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Work: 93456366
Level: 04
Building: School Of Peadiatrics
Campus: Royal Childrens Hospital

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of London
Bachelor of Arts University of Cambridge 31-Dec-1982
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene University of London - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 31-Dec-1990

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Strain Prevalence, Rather than Innate Virulence Potential, Is the Major Factor Responsible for an Increase in Serious Group A Streptococcus Infections


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 195
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1625-1633
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  • Burden of Acute Sore Throat and Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis in School-aged Children and Their Families in Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Pediatrics
    Volume: 120
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 950-957
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  • Enhanced Ex Vivo Stimulation of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-Specific T Cells in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Persons via Antigen Delivery by the Bordetella pertussis Adenylate Cyclase Vector
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 847-854
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  • How Reliable Is a Negative Blood Culture Result? Volume of Blood Submitted for Culture in Routine Practice in a Children's Hospital
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Pediatrics
    Volume: 119
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 891-896
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  • Interferon-gamma release assays in children - No better than tuberculin skin testing?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Infection
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 412-413
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  • The epidemiology of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 186
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 565-569
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • B-cell antigen D8/17 is a marker of rheumatic fever susceptibily in Aboriginal Australians and can be tested in remote settings
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 184
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 507-510
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  • Early Detection of Perinatal Tuberculosis Using a Whole Blood Interferon Release Assay
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: e82-e85
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  • Performance of a whole blood interferon gamma assay for detecting latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in children
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Thorax
    Volume: 61
    Page numbers: 616-620
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  • QuantiFERON-TB Gold: state of the art for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Expert Reviews in Molecular Diagnosis
    Volume: 6(5)
    Page numbers: 663-677
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  • Skin ulceration: what lies beneath
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 367
    Page numbers: 1874
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  • Successful treatment of cytomegalovirus-associated haemophagocytic syndrome following paediatric orthotopic liver transplantation
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 389 - 391
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  • Syphillis returns to the suburbs
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Pediatrics
    Volume: 165
    Page numbers: 290-292
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  • Whole blood IFN-γ assay for detecting TB in children
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Thorax
    Volume: 61
    Page numbers: 919 - 921
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • How to interpret a CSF-the art and science.
    Year: 2005
    Book: Hot topics in infection and immunity in children II
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Analysis of respiratory viral coinfection and cytomegalovirus coisolation in pediatric inpatients
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 195-200
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Antibiotics for whooping cough (pertussis)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cochrane library systematic reviews
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 2
    Publisher: Update Software
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  • Cytomegalovirus remains viable in naturally infected breast milk despite being frozen for 10 days
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
    Volume: 90
    Page numbers: F529-F530
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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  • Fever in children
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 769-771
    Publisher: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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  • Skin ulcers in a returned traveller
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 365
    Issue: 9460
    Page numbers: 726
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • Suppurative sequelae of symbiosis
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 365
    Issue: 9454
    Page numbers: 188
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • The diagnosis and management of Kawasaki disease
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 87-93
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Variations in the protective immune response against streptococcal superantigens in population of different ethnicity.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Prenatal Diagnosis
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 362-364
    Publisher: Wiley Europe
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome - at last the etiology is clear?
    Year: 2004
    Book: Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Volume 549
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Cephalosporin resistant urinary tract infections in young children.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 48-52
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Chips with everything: DNA microarrays in infectious diseases.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Lancet Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 100-111
    Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group(London)
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  • Fatal case of toxic shock-like syndrome due to group C streptococcus associated with superantigen exotoxin.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 2866-2869
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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  • Fever in a returned traveller.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 5-6
    Page numbers: 315-316
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  • Neonatal coxsackie B virus infection - a treatable disease?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: European Journal of Pediatrics
    Volume: 163
    Issue: 4-5
    Page numbers: 223-228
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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