BPSU - Publications

Links and references to BPSU study publications are listed below by year of publication.

2013

• Ani, C., Reading, R., Lynn, R., Forlee, S., Garralda, E., Incidence and 12-month outcome of non-transient childhood conversion disorder in the UK and Ireland.  BJP published online April 25, 2013 Access the most recent version at DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.116707

• Chiappini, E., Galli, L., Giaquinto, C., Ene, L., Goetghebuer, T., Judd, A. et al. Use of combination neonatal prophylaxis for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection in European high-risk infants. AIDS. 2013;27(6):991-1000.

• Donegan, K., Doerholt, K., Judd, A, Lyall, H., Menson, E., Butler, K. et al. Lopinavir dosing in HIV-infected children in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013;32(1):45-50.

• French, C E., Tookey, P A., Cortina-Borja, M., de Ruiter, A., Townsend, C L., Thorne, C., Influence of short-course antenatal antiretroviral therapy on viral load and mother-to-child transmission in subsequent pregnancies among HIV-infected women. Antivir Ther. 2013;18(2):183-92. 

• Huntington, S E., Thorne, C., Bansi, L K., Anderson, J., Newell, M L., Taylor, G P.et al. Predictors of pregnancy and changes in pregnancy incidence among HIV-positive women accessing HIV clinical care. AIDS. 2013;27(1):95-103. 

• Knowles, R., Oerton, J., An update on the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit study on congenital hypothyroidism. FootPrint - Issue 9 - March 2013. 

• Oddie S J., Craven,  Deakin V., Westman, J., Scally, A.,  Severe neonatal hypernatraemia: a population based study. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2013;0:F1–F4

2012

• Absoud M, Lim M J, Chong W K. Paediatric acquired demyelinating syndromes: incidence, clinical and magnetic resonance imaging features. Mult Scler  19 April 2012; PMID 22516794.

• Busfield, A, Samuel, R, McNinch, A, Tripp, J. Vitamin K deficiency bleeding after NICE guidance and withdrawal of Konakion Neonatal: British Paediatric Surveillance Unit study, 2006–2008. Archives of Disease in Childhood  2012; 98: 41-47.

• Becher J., Bhushan, S S., Lyon, A.J. Unexpected collapse in apparently healthy newborns – a prospective national study of a missing cohort of neonatal deaths and near-death events. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2012;97:F30−F34

• Donegan, K L., Walker, A S., Dunn, D., Judd, A., Pillay, D., Menson, E., et al. The prevalence of darunavir-associated mutations in HIV-1-infected children in the UK. Antivir Ther. 2012;17(4):599-603

• Erlewyn-Lajeunesse, M., Hunt, L., Heath, P., Finn, A., Anaphylaxis as an adverse event following immunisation in the UK and Ireland. Archives of Disease in Childhood  2012; 97: 487-490.

• French C E, Cortina-Borja M, Thorne C, Tookey P A. Incidence, patterns, and predictors of repeat pregnancies among HIV-infected women in the United Kingdom and Ireland. J AIDS 2012; 59: 287-93.

• Hudson, L, Nicholls, D, Lynn, R, Viner, R. Medical instability and growth of children and adolescents with early onset eating disorders. ADC 2012; 97: 779-784.

• Huntington, S E., Bansi, L K., Thorne, C., Anderson, J., Newell, M L., Taylor, G P. et al.. Using two on-going HIV studies to obtain clinical data from before, during and after pregnancy for HIV-positive women. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2012;12(1):110.

• Kenny, J., Williams, B., Prime, K., Tookey, P., Foster, C., Pregnancy outcomes in adolescents in the UK and Ireland growing up with HIV. HIV Med. 2012;13(5):304-8.

• Khalid J, Oerton J M, Hindmarsh P C, Kelnar C J, Knowles R L. Incidence and clinical features of congenital adrenal hyperplasia in Great Britain. ADC 2012; 97: 101-106.

• Knowles R, Friend H, Lynn R, Mitchell S, Michie C, Ihekweazu C. Surveillance of rare diseases: a public health evaluation of the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit. J Public Health 2012; Vol: 34(2): pp279-286.

• Lynn, R., Nicholls, D.E., Vinner, R.M., Ascertainment of early onset eating disorders: a pilot for developing a national child psychiatric surveillance system. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 2012. 7(2); 109-112

• Reading, R, Hughes G, Hill J, Debelle G. Genital herpes in children under 11 years and investigations for sexual abuse. Archives of Disease in Childhood  2011; 96: 752-757

• Tariq S, Elford J, Cortina-Borja M, Tookey P A. The association between ethnicity and late presentation to antenatal care among pregnant women living with HIV in the UK and Ireland. AIDS Care 2012.

• Tariq, S, Pillen, A., Tookey, P A., Brown, A E., Elford, J., The impact of African ethnicity and migration on pregnancy in women living with HIV in the UK: design and methods. BMC Public Health. 2012;12:596

• Ward K N, Ohrling A, Bryant N J, Bowley J S, Ross E M, Verity C. Herpes simplex serious neurological disease in young children: incidence and long-term outcome. Arch Dis Child 2012; 97: 162-165.

2011

• Castro H, Judd A, Gibb D M, Bulter K et al. Risk of triple class virological failure in children with HIV: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet  2011; 377(9777): 1580-1587.

• Haile-Selassie H, Townsend C L, Tookey P A. Use of neonatal post-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection in the UK and Ireland, 2001-2008. HIV Medicine 2011.

• Huntington S E, Bansi L K, Thorne C, Anderson J, Newell M-L. Treatment switches during pregnancy among HIV-positive women on antiretroviral therapy at conception. AIDS  2011; 25(13): 1647-1655.

• Knight M, Pierce M, Allen D, Kurinczuk J J, Spark P, Roberts D J, Murphy M F. The incidence and outcomes of fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia: a UK national study using three data sources. Br J Haematol  2011; 152(4): 460-8.

• Nicholls D E, Lynn R M, Viner R M. Childhood eating disorders: British national surveillance study. British Journal of Psychiatry  2011; 198 (4): 295-301.

• Oerton J, Khalid J M, Besley G, et. Al. Newborn screening for medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency in England: prevalence, predictive value and test validity based on 1.5 million screened babies. J Med Screen  2011; 18(4): 173-181.

• Tariq S, Townsend C L, Cortina-Borja M, Duong T, Elford J, Thorne C, Tookey P A. Use of Zidovudine-sparing HAART in pregnant HIV-infected women in Europe: 2000-2009. JAIDS  2011; 57(4): 326-333; epub PMID:21499113.

• Townsend C L, Peckham C S, Tookey P A. Surveillance of congenital cytomegalovirus in the UK and Ireland. ADC-FNN 2011; 96(6).

• Samad L, Marvin S, El Bashir H, Sutcliffe A G, Cameron J C, Lynn R, Taylor B. Prospective surveillance study of the management of intussusception in UK and Irish Infants. Briti Journ Surg 2011; doi: 10.1002/bjs.7821.

2010

• Herrick A, Ennis H, Bhushan M, Silman A, Baildam E. Incidence of childhood linear scleroderma and systemic sclerosis in the UK and Ireland. Arthritis Care & Research 2010; 62 (2): 213-218.

• HIV Paediatric Prognostic Markers Collaborative Study. Discordance between CD4 cell count and CD4 cell percentage: implications for when to start antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infected children. AIDS  2010; 24(8): 1213-1217.

• Khalid J M, Oerton J, Besley G, Dalton N, Downing M, Green A, Henderson M, Krywawych S, Wiley V, Wilcken B, Dezateux C on behalf of the UK Collaborative Study of Newborn Screening for MCADD. Relationship of Octanoylcarnitine Concentrations to Age at Sampling in Unaffected Newborns Screened for Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency. Clin Chem 2010; 56(6): 1015-21.

• Ladhani S, Garbash M, Whitty C J, Chiodini P L, Aibara R J, Riordan F A, Shingadia D. Prospective, national clinical and epidemiologic study on imported childhood malaria in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Pediatr Infect Dis J  2010; 29(5): 43.

• Townsend C L, Schulte J, Thorne C, Dominguez K L, Tookey P A, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham C S, Bohannon B, Newell M L for the Pediatric Spectrum of HIV Disease Consortium, the European Collaborative Study and the National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood. Antiretroviral therapy and preterm delivery: a pooled analysis of data from the United States and Europe. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2010; 1399-1410.

• Townsend C L, Tookey P A, Newell M L, Cortina-Borja M. Antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy: balancing risk of preterm delivery with prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Antiviral Therapy 2010; 15(5): 775-783.

• Verity C, Winstone A M, Stellitano L, Will R G, Nicoll A. The Epidemiology of Progressive Intellectual and Neurological Deterioration in Childhood. Arch Dis Child 2010; 95(5): 361-64.

• Verity C, Winstone A M, Stellitano L, Krishnakumar D, Will R, McFarland R. The clinical presentation of mitochondrial diseases in children with progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration: a national, prospective, population-based study. Dev Med Child Neurol 2010; 52(5): 358-363.

• Williamson S, Greene S A. Incidence of thyrotoxicosis in childhood: a national population based study in the UK and Ireland. Clinical Endocrinology  2010; 72(3): 358- 363.

2009

• Foster C, Judd A, Tookey P, Tudor-Williams G, Dunn D, Shingadia D, Butler K, Sharland M, Lyall H, Gibb D. Young people in the UK and Ireland with perinatally acquired HIV: the paediatric legacy for adult services. AIDS Patient Care STDS  2009; 23(3): 159-166.

• Hankin C D, Lyall E G H, Peckham C S, Masters J I, Tookey P A. In utero exposure to antiretroviral therapy. AIDS Care  2009; 21(7): 809-816.

• Johnson A P, Sharland M, Goodall C, Blackburn R, Kearns A, Gilbert R, Lamagni T, Charlett A, Ganner M, Hill R, Cookson B, Livermore D, Wilson J, Cunney R, Rossney A, Duckworth G. Enhanced surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

• Judd A, Ferrand R, Jungmann E, Foster C, Masters J, Rice B, Lyall H, Tookey P, Prime K. Vertically acquired HIV diagnosed in adolescence and early adulthood in the United Kingdom and Ireland: findings from national surveillance. HIV Medicine  2009; 10: 253-256.

• Leonard J V, Dezateux C. Newborn screening for medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. Arch Dis Child 2009; 94(3): 235-8.

• Riordan A, Judd A, Boyd K, Cliff D, Doerholt K, Lyall H, Menson E, Butler K, Gibb D. Tenofovir use in human immunodeficiency virus-1-infected children in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Pediatr Infect Dis J.  2009; 28(3): 204-209.

• Salotti J A, Nanduri V, Pearce M S, Parker L, Lynn R, Windebank K P. Incidence and clinical features of Langerhans cell histiocytosis in the UK and Ireland. Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 376-380.

• Shield J P,  Lynn R, Wan K C, Haines L, Barrett T G. Management and 1 year outcome for UK children with type 2 diabetes. Arch Dis Child 2009; 94(3): 206-9.

• Teo S S, Riordan A, Alfaham M, Clark J, Evans M R, Watson J M, Riordan A, Sonnenberg P, Clark J, Hayward A, Sharland M, Moore-Gillon J, Novelli V, Quinn D, Shingadia D. An evaluation of the completeness of reporting of childhood tuberculosis. Eur Respair J  2009; 34: 1-4.

• Teo S S, Riordan A, Alfaham M, Clark J, Evans M R, Sharland M, Novelli V, Watson J M, Sonnenberg P, Hayward A, Moore-Gillon J, Shingadia D for the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit Childhood Tuberculosis Study Group. Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 263-267.

2008

• Chakraborty R, Smith C J, Dunn D, Green H, Duong T, Doerholt K, Riordan A, Lyall H, Tookey P, Butler K, Sabin C A, Gibb D, Pillay D. HIV-1 drug resistance in HIV-1 infected children in the UK from 1998 to 2004. PIDJ  2008; 27: 457-59.

• Cheng K, Masters S, Stephenson T, Cooke R, Ferner R, Ashworth M, Nunn A J. Identification of suspected fatal adverse drug reactions by paediatricians: a UK surveillance study. Arch Dis Child 2008; 93(7): 609-611.

• De Ruiter A, Mercey D, Anderson J, Chakraborty R, Clayden P, Foster G, Gilling-Smith C, Hawkins D, Low-Beer N, Lyall H, O'Shea S, Penn Z, Short J, Smith R, Sonecha S. British HIV Association and Childrens HIV Association guidelines for the management of HIV infection in pregnant women 2008. HIV Medicine 2008; 9: 452-502.

• Khalid J M, Oerton J, Cortina-Borja M, Andresen B S. UK Collaborative Study of newborn Screening for MCADD. UK Collaborative Study of newborn Screening for MCADD. Ethnicity of children with homozygous c.985A>G medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency: findings from screening approximately 1.1 million newborn infants. J Med Screen 2008; 15: 112-117.

• Ladhani S, Heath P, Aibara R J, Ramsay M, Slack M, Hibberd M, Pollard A, Moxon R, Booy R. Long-term follow-up study of children with Haemophilus influenzae serotype B vaccine failure to determine long term complications and the risk of serious infections. Arch Dis Child 2008; 98(1): 80

• Sabin C, The Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research Europe (COHERE) Study group. Response to combination antiretroviral therapy: variation by age. AIDS 2008; 22: 1463-1473.

• Samad L, Marven S, El Bashir H, Cameron J C, Lynn R, Taylor B. Intussusception in children less than 12 months of age: a UK national surveillance study. J Pediatr Surg  2008; 43(11): 2136.

• Townsend C L, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham C, Tookey P A. Trends in management and outcome of pregnancies in HIV infected women in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990-2006. BJOG 2008; 115: 1078-1086.

• Townsend C L, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham C S, De Ruiter A, Lyall H, Tookey P A. Low rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV following effective pregnancy interventions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2000 - 2006. AIDS 2008; 22(8): 973-81.

2007

• Busfield A, McNinch A, and Tripp J. Neonatal vitamin K prophylaxis in Great Britain and Ireland: the impact of perceived risk and product licensing on effectiveness. Arch Dis Child 2007; 92: 754-758.

• Cameron J C, Allen G, Johnstone F, Finn A, Heath P T, Booy R. Severe complications of chickenpox in hospitalised children in UK and Ireland. Arch Dis Child 2007; 10.1136.

• Grenier D, Elliott E J, Zurynski Y, Rodrigues Pereira R, Preece M, Lynn R, von Kries R, Zimmerman H, Dickson N P, Virella D. Beyond counting cases: public health impacts of national Paediatric Surveillance Units. Arch Dis Child  2007; 92: 527-533.

• Hankin C, Lyall H, Peckham C, Tookey P. Monitoring death and cancer in children born to HIV-infected women in England and Wales: use of HIV surveillance and national routine data. AIDS  2007; 21: 867-877.

• Hankin C, Newell M, Tookey P. The long-term follow-up of antiretroviral therapy-exposed uninfected children born to HIV-infected women: parents’ and health professionals’ views. AIDS Care 2007; 19(4): 482-86.

• Judd A, Doerholt, Tookey P A, Sharland M, Riordan A, Menson E, Novelli V, Lyall  E G H, Masters J, Tudor-Williams G, Duong T, Gibb DM. Morbidity, Mortality, and Response to Treatment by Children in the United Kingdom and Ireland with Perinatally Acquired HIV Infection during 1996: Planning for Teenage and Adult Care. CID 2007; 45: 918-924.

• Lynn R, Ross E. The British Paediatric Surveillance Unit: the first 20 years. Arch Dis Child  2007; 92: 744 - 745.

• Lynn R, Pebody R, Knowles R. Twenty years of active paediatric surveillance in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Euro Surveill 2007; 11(7): E060720.4<

• Ladhani S, Aibara R J, Riordan F A, Shingadia D. Imported malaria in children: a review of clinical studies. Lancet Infect Dis 2007; 7(5): 349-57.

• Manning D, Todd P, Maxwell M, Platt M J. Prospective surveillance study of severe hyperbilirubinaemia in the newborn in the UK and Ireland. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2007; 92: F342-F346.

• McNinch A, Busfield A, Tripp J. Vitamin K deficiency bleeding in Great Britain and Ireland: British Paediatric Surveillance Unit Surveys, 1993-94 and 2001-02. Arch Dis Child 2007; 92: 759-766.

• Townsend C L, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham C S, Tookey P A. Antiretroviral therapy and premature delivery in diagnosed HIV-infected women in the United Kingdom and Ireland. AIDS 2007; 21(8): 1019-26.

• Ward K N, Bryant N J, Andrews N J, Bowley J S, Ohrling A, Verity C M, Ross E M, Miller E. Risk of serious neurologic disease after immunization of young children in Britain and Ireland. Pediatrics 2007; 120(2): 314-21.

2006

• Brown A E, Tomkins S E, Logan L E, laMontagne D S, Munro H L, Hope V D, Righarts A, Blackham J E, Rice B D, Chadborn T R, Tookey P A, Parry J V, Delpech V, Gill O N, Fenton. Monitoring the effectiveness of HIV and STI prevention initiatives in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: where are we now? Sex Transm Infect 2006; 82(1): 4-10.

• Cherihew L, Lamagni T L, Brocklehurst P, McGuire W. Invasive fungal infection in very low birthweight infants: national prospective surveillance study. Arch Dis Child Neo Ed 2006; 91: F188-192.

• Doerholt K, Duong T, Tookey P, Butler K, Lyall H, Sharland M, Novelli V, Riordan A, Dunn D, Walker A S, Gibb D M. Outcomes for HIV-1-infected infants in the UK and Republic of Ireland in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2006; 25(5): 420-426.

• Edge J A, Jakes R W, Roy Y, Hawkins M, Winter D, Ford-Adams M E, Murphy N P, Bergomi A, Widmer B, Dunger D B. The UK case-control study of cerebral oedema complication diabetic ketoacidosis in children. Diabetologia 2006; 49: 2002-9.

• Gilbert R, Tan H K, Cliffe S, Stanford M, Guy E. Symptomatic toxoplasma infection due to congenital and postnatally acquired infection. Arch Dis Child 2006; 91(6): 495-8.

• Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, The UK Collaborative Group for HIV & STI Surveillance. A complex picture - HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in the UK: 2006. CDR Wkly 2006; 16(47).

• HIV Paed Prognostic Markers Collaborative Study. Predictive value of absolute CD4 count for disease progression in untreated HIV-1-infected children. AIDS  2006; 20: 1289-94.

• Knowles R L, Smith A, Lynn R, Rahi J S on behalf of the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU). Using multiple sources to improve and measure case ascertainment in surveillance studies: 20 years of the BPSU. J Public Health 2006; 28(2): 157-65.

• Stanford M R, Hooi H K, Cliffe S, Stanford M, Guy E. Toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis presenting in childhood: clinical findings in a UK survey. Br J Opthalmol 2006; 90(12): 1464-7.

• Townsend C L, Cliffe S, Tookey P A. Uptake of antenatal HIV testing in the United Kingdom: 2000-2003. J Public Health 2006; 28: 248-52.

• Townsend C L, Tookey P A, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham C S. Antiretroviral therapy and congenital abnormalities in infants born to HIV-1 infected women in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990-2003. J AIDS 2006; 42(1): 91-94.

• Verity C, Winstone A M, Stellitano L, Nicoll A, Will R G. No clinical evidence of hidden vCJD in UK Children. Arch Dis Child 2006; 91: 608-609.

2005

• Colver A F, Nevantaus H, Macdougall C F, Cant A J. Severe food-allergic reactions in children across the UK and Ireland, 1998-2000. Acta Paediatrica 2005; 94: 689-695.

• Downing M, et al. Newborn Screening for Medium Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency: acylcarnitine C8/C10. J. Inherit Metab Dis  2005; 28, Suppl 1: 19-P.

• Goddard, et al. Quality Assuring a Multicentre Newborn Screening Programme for MCADD in the UK. J. Inherit Metab Dis 2005; 28, Suppl 1: 236-P

• Hobbs C J, Childs A, Wynne J, Livingston J, Seal A. Subdural haematoma and effusion in infancy: An epidemiological study. Arch Dis Child 2005; 90: 952-955.

• Lynn R, O'Brien S J, Taylor C M, Adak G K, Chart H, Cheasty T, Coia J E, Gillespie I A, Locking M E, Reilly W J, Smith H R, Waters A, Willshaw G A. Childhood hemolytic uremic syndrome, United Kingdom and Ireland. Emerg Infect Dis 2005; 11 (4): 590-6.

• Oerton J, et al. Predictive value, clinical status and genotype of Medium Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MCADD) ascertained by screening at one week of age using electrospray tandem mass spectomotry. J. Inherit Metab Dis 2005; 28, Suppl 1: 18-P.

• Pereira-da-Silva L, Kries R von, Rose D, Elliott E. Acknowledging contributions from surveillance units. Arch Dis Child 2005; 90: 768.

• Phillips P, et al. Newborn screening for Medium Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency at one week of age: octanoyl carnitine distributions from a multicentre study using electrospray tandem mass spectrometry of underivatised blood spot samples. J. Inherit Metab Dis  2005; 28, Suppl 1.

• Ward K N, Andrews N J, Vertiy C M, Miller E, Ross E M. Human herpesviruses-6 and -7 each cause significant neurological morbidity in Britain and Ireland. Arch Dis Child 2005; 90: 619-623.

• Ward K N, Thiruchelvam A D, Couto-Parada X. Unexpected Occasional Persistence of High levels of HHV-6 DNA in Sear: Detection of Variants A and B. Journ Med Virol 2005; 76: 563-570.

2004

• Brown A E, Sadler K E, Tomkins S E, McGarrigle C A, Scott LaMontagne D, Goldberg D, Tookey P A, Smyth B, Thomas D, Murphy G, Parry J V, Evans B G, Gill O N, Ncube F. Recent Trends in HIV and other STIs in the United Kingdom: data to the end of 2002. Sex Transm Infect 2004; 80(3): 159-66.

• Davenport M, De Ville de Goyet J,  Stringer M,  Miel-Vergani G, Kelly D,  McClean P, Spitz L. Seamless management of biliary atresia in England and Wales (1999-2002). Lancet  2004; 363: 1354-1357.

• Devereux G, Stellitano L, Verity C M, Nicoll A, Rogers P. Variations in neurodegenerative disease across the UK; findings from the national study of Progressive Intellectual and Neurological Deterioration (PIND). Arch Dis Child 2004; 89: 8-12.

• Heath P T, Balfour G, Weiser A M, Efstratiou A, Lamagni T L, Tighe H, O'Conell L A F, Cafferkey M, Verlander N Q, Nicoll A, McCartney A C. Group B streptococcal disease in UK and Irish infants < 90 days of age. Lancet 2004; 363: 292-4.

• Miller C, Andrews N, Rush M, Munro H, Jin L, Miller E. The epidemiology of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in England and Wales 1990-2002. Arch Dis Child 2004; 89 (12): 1145-8.

• Water Naude J, Verity C M, Will R G, Devereux G, Stellitano L. Is variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in young children misdiagnosed as Alpers' syndrome? An analysis of a nationals surveillance study. JNNP 2004; 75  No:5: (6):910-3.

• Weisner A M, Johnson A P, Lamagni T L, Arnold E, Warner M, Heath P T, Efstratiou A. Characterisation of Group B Streptococci from infants with Invasive Disease in England and Wales. Clinical Infectious Disease 2004; 38: 1203-8.

2003

• Bisinella G L, Birch R. Obstetric brachial plexus lesions: a study of 74 children registered with the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (March 1998-March 1999). J Hand Surg [Br] 2003; 28(1): 40-5.

• Dunn D. Short-term risk of disease progression in HIV-1 infected children receiving no antiretroviral therapy or zidovudine monotherapy: a meta-analysis. Lancet 2003; 362: 1605-11.

• Evans-Jones G, Kay S P J, Weindling A M, Cranny G, Ward A, Bradshaw A, Hernon C. Congenital brachial palsy; incidence, causes, and outcome in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2003; 88: F185-F189.

• Gibb D M, Duong T, Tookey P A, Sharland M, Tudor-Williams G, Novelli V, Butler K, Riordan A, Farrelly L, Masters J, Peckham C S, Dunn D T. Decline in mortality, AIDS and hospital admissions in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in the United Kingdom and Ireland. BMJ 2003; 327: 1019-0.

• Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections. Renewing the focus - HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in the United Kingdom in 2002. London: Health Protection Agency 2003; Nov-03: Ch 12.3

• Heath P T, Booy R, McVernon J, Bowen-Morris J, Griffiths H, Slack M P E, Moloney A C, Ramsay M E, Moxon E R. Hib vaccination in infants born prematurely. Arch Dis Child 2003; 88: 206-210.

• McVernon J, Johnson P D R, Pollard A J, Slacke M P E, Moxon E R. Immunologic memory in Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine failure. Arch Dis Child 2003; 88: 379-383.

• Rahi J S, Cable N, on behalf of the British Childhood Visual Impairment Study Group (BCVISG). Severe visual impairment and blindness in children in the UK. Lancet 2003; 362: 1359-1365.

• Ramsay M E, McVernon J, Andrews N J, Heath P T, Slack M P. Estimating Hib vaccine effectiveness in England and Wales using the screening method. J Infect Dis 2003; 188: 481-5.

• Sawczenko A, Lynn R, and Sandhu B K. Variations in initial assessment and management of inflammatory bowel disease across Great Britain and Ireland. Arch Dis Child 2003; 88: 990-994.

• Sawczenko A, Sandhu B K. Presenting features of inflammatory bowel disease in Great Britain and Ireland. Arch Dis Child 2003; 88(11): 995-1000.

2002

• Verity C, Nicoll A. Education and debate: Consent, confidentiality, and the threat to public health surveillance. BMJ 2002; 324: 1210-1213.

• Tookey P A, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham C S. Rubella susceptibility among pregnant women in North London, 1996-1999. Journal of Public Health Medicine  2002; 24: 211-216.

• Miller E. MMR vaccine: review of benefits and risks. Journal of Infection 2002; 44: 1-6.

• Heath P T, McVernon J. The UK Hib vaccine experience. Arch Dis Child 2002; 86: 396-399.

• CDSC. Monitoring of antenatal screening for HIV in the United Kingdom. Commun Dis Rep Wkly 2002; 12(17).

• Ward K N, Couto Parada X, Passas J, Thiruchelvam A D. Evaluation of the specificity and sensitivity of indirect immunoflourescence tests for IgG to human herpesviruses-6 and -7. Journ Virol Meth 2002; 106: 107-113.

• Macdougall C F, Cant A J, Colver A F. How dangerous is food allergy in childhood? The incidence of severe and fatal allergic reactions across the UK and Ireland. Arch Dis Child 2002; 86: 236-239.

2001

• Cliffe S, Tookey P A, Nicoll A. Antenatal detection of HIV: national surveillance and unlinked anonymous survey. BMJ  2001; 323: 376-7.

• Edge J A, Hawkins M M, Winter D L. The risk and outcome of cerebral oedema developing during diabetic ketoacidosis. Arch Dis Child 2001; 85: 16-22.

• Elliott E J, Williams K, Nicoll A, Lynn R, Marchessault V, Hirasing R. International network of paediatric surveillance units. Canadian Journal of Paediatircs 2001; 6: 250-9.

• Lynn R. Key issues in child health surveillance. Proc R Coll Physicians Edinb 2001; 31: 39-45.

• Rahi J S, Botting B and the BCCIG. Ascertainment of children with congenital cataract through the National Congenital Anomaly System in England and Wales. Brit J Ophthalmol 2001; 85(9): 1049-1051.

• Rahi J S, Dezaeux C and the BCCIG. Measuring and interpreting the incidence of congenital ocular anomalies: lessons from a national study of congenital cataract in the UK. IOVS 2001; 42: 1444-1448.

• Williams A J, Duong T, McNally L M, Tookey P A, Masters J, Miller R, Lyall E G H, Gibb, D M. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and cytomegalovirus infection in children with vertically acquired HIV infection. AIDS 2001; 15: 335-39.

2000

• Adak G K, Lynn R, O'Brien S. HUS Surveillance What does it tell us about VTEC?. SCIEH Weekly Report 2000; 34: 14.

• Handysides, S. Active surveillance of rare and serious disease in children. CDR Wkly 2000; 10: 349,52.

• Gibb D M, Neave P E, Tookey P A, Ramsay M, Harris H, Baglogan K, Goldberg D, Mieli-Vergani G, Kelly D. Active Surveillance of Hepatitis C Infection in the UK and Eire. Arch Dis Child 2000; 82: 286-291.

• Gibb D M, Goddall R, Dunn D, Healy M, Neave P, Cafferkey M, Butler K. Mother to child transmission of hepatitis C virus: evidence for preventable peripartum transmission. Lancet 2000; 356: 904-907.

• Heath P T, Booy R, Azzopardi H J, Slack M P E, Fogarty J, Moloney A C, Ramsay M E, Moxon E R. Non Type b Haemophilus Influenzae Disease: Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics in the Hib Vaccine Era. Paediatr Infect Dis J 2000; 31(4): 973-80.

• Heath P T, Booy R, Azzopardi H J, Slack M P E, Bowen-Morris J, Griffiths H, Ramsay M E, Deeks J J, Moxon E R. Antibody Concentration and Clinical Protection After Hib Conjugate Vaccine in the United Kingdom. JAMA 2000; 284: 2334-2340.

• Heath P T, Booy R, Griffiths H, Clutterbuck E, Azzopardi H J, Slack M P E, Fogarty J, Moloney A C, Moxon E R. Clinical and Immunological risk factors associated with Hib conjugate vaccine failure in childhood. Clinical Infectious Disease 2000; 31: 973-80.

• McKiernan PJ, Baker A, Kelly D. The frequency and outcome of biliary atresia in the UK and Ireland. Lancet 2000; 355: 25-29.

• Nicoll A, Lynn R M, Rahi J, Verity C, Haines L. Public Health Outputs from the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit and similar clinician based surveillance mechanisms. J R Soc Med 2000; 80: 580-585.

• Rahi J S, Tookey P A. Congenital and Infantile Cataract in the United Kingdom: Underlying or Associated Factors. IOVS 2000; 41: 2108-2114.

• Tookey P A, Molyneaux P, Helms P. UK cases of congenital rubella can be linked to Greek cases. BMJ 2000; 321: 766-67.

• Verity C, Nicoll A, Will R, Devereux G, Stellitano L. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in UK children: a national surveillance study. Lancet 2000; 356: 1224-7.

1999

• Bacon C J, Bell S A, Gaventa J, Greenwood D C. Case-Control Study of Thermal Environmental Preceding HSES. Arch Dis Child 1999; 81: 155-158.

• Baxter P. Epidemiology of pyridoxine dependent and pyridoxine responsive seizures in the UK. Arch Dis Child 1999; 81 No5: 431-433.

• Gilbert R, Tookey P A. Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity among babies delivered in water: surveillance study and postal survey. BMJ 1999; 319: 483-487.

• Rahi J S, Dezateux C. National cross sectional study of detection of congenital and infantile cataract in the United Kingdom: role of childhood screening and surveillance. BMJ 1999; 318: 362-365.

• Rahi J S, Dezateux C. Capture-Recapture Analysis of Ascertainment by Active Surveillance in the British Congenital Cataract Study. IQVS 1999; 40 (1): 236-239.