Professor Alison Kesson

Professor
Paediatrics & Child Health, Children's Hospital, Westmead

C29 - Children's Hospital Westmead
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Publications

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

2011

  
  • Paget, S., Andresen, D., Kesson, A., Egan, J. (2011), Comparison of human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus in children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit. Journal of paediatrics and child health. 47(10), 737-41. [Abstract]
  • Cao, Y., Kong, F., Zhou, F., Xiao, M., Wang, Q., Duan, Y., Kesson, A., McPhie, K., Gilbert, G., Dwyer, D. (2011), Genotyping of human adenoviruses using a PCR-based reverse line blot hybridisation assay. Pathology. 43(5), 488-94. [Abstract]
  • Macartney, K., Porwal, M., Dalton, D., Cripps, T., Maldigri, T., Isaacs, D., Kesson, A. (2011), Decline in rotavirus hospitalisations following introduction of Australia's national rotavirus immunisation programme. Journal of paediatrics and child health. 47(5), 266-70. [Abstract]
  • Khandaker, G., Zurynski, Y., Lester-Smith, D., Kesson, A., Heron, L., Dwyer, D., Elliott, E., Booy, R. (2011), Clinical features, oseltamivir treatment and outcome in infants aged <12 months with laboratory-confirmed influenza A in 2009. Antiviral Therapy. 16(7), 1005-1010. [Abstract]

2010

  
  • Gosbell, I., Gottlieb, T., Kesson, A., Post, J., Dwyer, D. (2010), Immunisation and multi-dose vials. Vaccine. 28(40), 6556-61. [Abstract]
  • Andresen, D., Kesson, A. (2010), High sensitivity of a rapid immunochromatographic test for detection of influenza A virus 2009 H1N1 in nasopharyngeal aspirates from young children. Journal of clinical microbiology. , 2658-9. [Abstract]
  • Wang, B., Dwyer, D., Blyth, C., Soedjono, M., Shi, H., Kesson, A., Ratnamohan, M., McPhie, K., Cunningham, A., Saksena, N. (2010), Detection of the rapid emergence of the H275Y mutation associated with oseltamivir resistance in severe pandemic influenza virus A/H1N1 09 infections. Antiviral research. 87(1), 16-21. [Abstract]
  • Webster, R., Hazelton, B., Suleiman, J., Macartney, K., Kesson, A., Dale, R. (2010), Severe encephalopathy with Swine origin influenza a h1n1 infection in childhood: case reports. Neurology. 74(13), 1077-1078. [Abstract]
  • Kesson, A., Benwell, N., Elliott, E. (2010), Norovirus diarrhoeal disease in infants and children. The Medical Journal of Australia. , 108-109. [Abstract]

2009

  
  • Iskander, M., Kesson, A., Dwyer, D., Rost, L., Pym, M., Wang, H., McCaskill, M., Booy, R. (2009), The burden of influenza in children under 5 years admitted to the Children's Hospital at Westmead in the winter of 2006. Journal of paediatrics and child health. 45(12), 698-703. [Abstract]
  • Harkness, B., Andresen, D., Kesson, A., Isaacs, D. (2009), Infections following lawnmower and farm machinery-related injuries in children. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 45(9), 525-528. [Abstract]
  • Inglis, E., Kesson, A., Newall, A., Macartney, K., Macintyre, C. (2009), The burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children presenting to a paediatric hospital. Epidemiology and infection. 137(0), 943-9. [Abstract]
  • Lester-Smith, D., Zurynski, Y., Booy, R., Festa, M., Kesson, A., Elliott, E. (2009), The burden of childhood influenza in a tertiary paediatric setting. Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 33(2), 209-215. [Abstract]
  • Yam, A., Andresen, D., Kesson, A., Isaacs, D. (2009), Incidence of sterile cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis in infants with urinary tract infection. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 45(6), 364-367. [Abstract]
  • Kesson, A., Bellemore, M., O'Mara, T., Ellis, D., Sorrell, T. (2009), Scedosporium prolificans osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent child treated with a novel agent, hexadecylphospocholine (miltefosine), in combination with terbinafine and voriconazole: a case report. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 48(9), 1257-1261. [Abstract]
  • King, N., Davison, A., Getts, D., Lu, D., Getts, M., Yeung, A., Peterson, J., Kesson, A. (2009), Enhanced Antigen Processing or Immune Evasion? West Nile Virus and the Induction of Immune Recognition Molecules. In: West Nile Encephalitis Virus Infection. (pp.309-339).United States: Springer.

2008

  
  • Othman, N., Isaacs, D., Daley, A., Kesson, A. (2008), Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in a clinical setting. Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric Society. 50(5), 662-6. [Abstract]
  • Zurynski, Y., Lester-Smith, D., Festa, M., Kesson, A., Booy, R., Elliott, E. (2008), Enhanced surveillance for serious complications of influenza in children: role of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit. Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report. 32(1), 71-76. [Abstract]
  • Ward, K., McIntyre, P., Kirkwood, C., Roche, P., Ferson, M., Van Buynder, P., Roberts-Witteveen, A., Kesson, A., Krause, V., McAnulty, J. (2008), Rotavirus surveillance in Australia. Communicable diseases intelligence. 32(1), 82-87. [Abstract]
  • Robinson, P., Dalton, D., Cripps, T., Wood, N., Kesson, A., Isaacs, D. (2008), Tuberculosis in children: a tertiary centre perspective. The Medical Journal of Australia. , 190-191. [Abstract]
  • Keeson, A. (2008), Principles of antimicrobial therapy. In: Forfar and Arneil's Textbook of Pediatrics. (pp.1206-1210).United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone.
  • Keeson, A. (2008), Hospital infection control. In: Forfar and Arneil's Textbook of Pediatrics. (pp.1203-1204).United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone.
  • Kesson, A., Andresen, D., Holt, L., Fernando, R. (2008), Antimicrobial Stewardship: It's Role in a Tertiary Paediatric Hospital. The Bulletin of the Sri Lankan College of Microbiologists. 6(0), 49-54.
  • Keeson, A. (2008), Use of the virology laboratory by the clinician. In: Forfar and Arneil's Textbook of Pediatrics. (pp.1258-1259).United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone.
  • Keeson, A. (2008), The use of the bacteriology laboratory by the pediatrician. In: Forfar and Arneil's Textbook of Pediatrics. (pp.1204-1206).United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone.

2007

  
  • Kesson, A. (2007), Respiratory virus infections. Paediatric respiratory reviews. 8(3), 240-248. [Abstract]
  • Kesson, A., Kakakios, A. (2007), Immunocompromised children: conditions and infectious agents. Paediatric respiratory reviews. 8(3), 231-239. [Abstract]
  • Snelling, T., Cripps, T., Macartney, K., Dalton, D., Kesson, A., Isaacs, D. (2007), Nosocomial rotavirus infection in an Australian children's hospital. Journal of paediatrics and child health. , 318. [Abstract]
  • King, N., Getts, D., Getts, M., Rana, S., Shrestha, B., Kesson, A. (2007), Immunopathology of flavivirus infections. Immunology and cell biology. 85(1), 33-42. [Abstract]

2006

  
  • Bateman, C., Kesson, A., Shaw, P. (2006), Pancreatitis and adenoviral infection in children after blood and marrow transplantation. Bone marrow transplantation. 38(12), 807-11. [Abstract]