Ciara A Baker
Royal Children's Hospital
21 Papers
4 Citations
Ciara A Baker is an academic researcher from Royal Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pharyngitis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 16 publications. Previous affiliations of Ciara A Baker include University of Melbourne & Université libre de Bruxelles.
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Papers
Randomized Trial of Community Treatment With Azithromycin and Ivermectin Mass Drug Administration for Control of Scabies and Impetigo.
Michael Marks,Michael Marks,Hilary Toloka,Ciara A Baker,Christian Kositz,James Asugeni,Elliot Puiahi,Rowena Asugeni,Kristy Azzopardi,Jason Diau,John M. Kaldor,Lucia Romani,Michelle Redman-MacLaren,David MacLaren,Anthony W. Solomon,Anthony W. Solomon,David Mabey,David Mabey,Andrew C Steer,Andrew C Steer +19 more
TL;DR: Co-administration of azithromycin with ivermectin led to similar decreases in scabies and impetigo prevalence compared to iver MDA alone, and there was a transient increase in the proportion of macrolide-resistant S. aureus strains following azidromycin MDA.
Increase in invasive group A streptococcal disease among Australian children coinciding with northern hemisphere surges
Yara N Abo,Jane Sidney Oliver,Alissa McMinn,Joshua Osowicki,Ciara A Baker,Julia E Clark,Christopher C Blyth,J M Francis,J Carr,Pierre R. Smeesters,Nigel W Crawford,Andrew C Steer +11 more
TL;DR: Australia experienced an increase in the incidence of iGAS among children and young people in 2022 compared to pandemic years 2020–2021, and the annualised incidence increased sharply from mid-2021, emphasising the unmet need for a vaccine to prevent significant morbidity associated with iGAS disease.
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Controlled human infection for vaccination against Streptococcus pyogenes (CHIVAS): Establishing a group A Streptococcus pharyngitis human infection study.
Joshua Osowicki,Joshua Osowicki,Kristy Azzopardi,Ciara A Baker,Claire S. Waddington,Manisha Pandey,Tibor Schuster,Anneke Grobler,Allen C. Cheng,Andrew J. Pollard,James S. McCarthy,Michael F. Good,Mark J. Walker,James B. Dale,Michael R. Batzloff,Jonathan R. Carapetis,Pierre R. Smeesters,Pierre R. Smeesters,Andrew C Steer +18 more
TL;DR: The primary objective of the study is to establish a new GAS pharyngitis HIS with an attack rate of at least 60% as a safe and reliable platform for vaccine evaluation and pathogenesis research.
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Global Streptococcus pyogenes strain diversity, disease associations, and implications for vaccine development: a systematic review
Pierre R. Smeesters,Gabrielle de Crombrugghe,Shu Ki Tsoi,Céline Leclercq,Ciara A Baker,Joshua Osowicki,Caroline Verhoeven,Anne Botteaux,Andrew C. Steer +8 more
TL;DR: The development of a truly global vaccine to reduce the immense burden of diseases caused by S pyogenes should consider the multidimensional diversity of the pathogen, including its social and environmental context, and not merely its geographical distribution.
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Detection of six soil-transmitted helminths in human stool by qPCR- a systematic workflow.
Kristy Azzopardi,Myra Hardy,Ciara A Baker,Rhian Bonnici,Stacey Llewellyn,James S. McCarthy,Rebecca J. Traub,Andrew C Steer +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a scalable system for stool STH multiplex quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions (qPCR) was proposed for detecting six clinically important STH affecting humans that could be easily implemented without advanced automation in any qPCR-capable laboratory.