Once thought rare, bronchiectasis is now recognised as a significant disorder. It affects one in 68 Indigenous Australians, as well as non-Indigenous children and adults living in urban and remote...

Lung infections such as pneumonia are common in Indigenous children, and can lead to repeated hospitalisation and permanent lung damage. They are also an important cause of preventable death in...

PBB is a common cause of chronic cough in children. PBB was first described by our team in 2006 and since then has been incorporated into national and international paediatric...

Respiratory diseases that cause children to have a chronic wet cough are an important cause of poor health in children around the world. The most common of these are Protracted...

Indigenous children in remote Australia have extremely high rates of pneumonia; some get better while others develop bronchiectasis (a chronic suppurative lung disease characterised by chronic wet cough). Chronic wet...

Bronchiolitis remains the most common acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) in infants. It causes inflammation of the small airways, increased mucous production and necrosis of epithelial tissue. In paediatrics...