By Ms Asha Clare Bowen

Journal articles

Thomas L; Bowen AC; Tong SYC, 2020, 'Complicated skin and soft tissue infections in remote indigenous communities', Internal Medicine Journal, 50, pp. 752 - 754, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.14858

DeWyer A; Scheel A; Webel AR; Longenecker CT; Kamarembo J; Aliku T; Engel ME; Bowen AC; Bwanga F; Hovis I; Chang A; Sarnacki R; Sable C; Dale JB; Carapetis J; Rwebembera J; Okello E; Beaton A, 2020, 'Prevalence of group A β-hemolytic streptococcal throat carriage and prospective pilot surveillance of streptococcal sore throat in Ugandan school children', International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 93, pp. 245 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.01.013

Davidson L; Knight J; Bowen AC, 2020, 'Skin infections in Australian Aboriginal children: a narrative review', Medical Journal of Australia, 212, pp. 231 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50361

Schauer A; Campbell AJ; Arthur I; Blyth CC; Bowen AC, 2020, 'Spotting sporotrichosis skin infection: The first Australian paediatric case series', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 56, pp. 408 - 410, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.14639

Sampson MCR; O'Brien DMP; Manley DE; Ford DTJ; Warne DRR; Hazelton DB; Bowen AC, 2020, 'Sudden visual loss: A not so simplex case', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 56, pp. 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.1_14669

Engelman D; Yoshizumi J; Hay RJ; Osti M; Micali G; Norton S; Walton S; Boralevi F; Bernigaud C; Bowen AC; Chang AY; Chosidow O; Estrada-Chavez G; Feldmeier H; Ishii N; Lacarrubba F; Mahé A; Maurer T; Mahdi MMA; Murdoch ME; Pariser D; Nair PA; Rehmus W; Romani L; Tilakaratne D; Tuicakau M; Walker SL; Wanat KA; Whitfeld MJ; Yotsu RR; Steer AC; Fuller C, 2020, 'The 2020 IACS Consensus Criteria for the Diagnosis of Scabies.', British Journal of Dermatology, 183, pp. 808 - 820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18943

Hendrickx D; Amgarth-Duff I; Bowen AC; Carapetis JR; Chibawe R; Samson M; Walker R, 2020, 'Barriers and enablers of health service utilisation for childhood skin infections in remote aboriginal communities of Western Australia', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030808

Campbell AJ; Daley DA; Bell JM; Pang S; Coombs GW; Carapetis JR; Bowen AC; Blyth CC, 2020, 'Progress towards a coordinated, national paediatric antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme: Staphylococcus aureus, enterococcal and Gram-negative bacteraemia in Australia', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 75, pp. 1639 - 1644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/JAC/DKAA065

Tong SYC; Campbell A; Bowen AC; Davis JS, 2019, 'A Survey of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Clinicians in Australia and New Zealand about the Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 69, pp. 1835 - 1836, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz275

Barnes R; Bowen AC; Walker R; Tong SYC; McVernon J; Campbell PT; Fathima P; de Klerk NH; Wu Y; Blyth CC; Carapetis JR; Moore HC, 2019, 'Perinatal risk factors associated with skin infection hospitalisation in Western Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal children', Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 33, pp. 374 - 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12573

Mullane MJ; Barnett TC; Cannon JW; Carapetis JR; Christophers R; Coffin J; Jones MA; Marsh JA; Mc Loughlin F; O'Donnell V; Pavlos R; Smith B; Steer AC; Tong SYC; Walker R; Bowen AC, 2019, 'SToP (See, Treat, Prevent) skin sores and scabies trial: Study protocol for a cluster randomised, stepped-wedge trial for skin disease control in remote Western Australia', BMJ Open, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030635

Hand RM; Salman S; Newall N; Vine J; Page-Sharp M; Bowen AC; Gray K; Baker A; Kado J; Joseph J; Marsh J; Ramsay J; Sika-Paotonu D; Batty KT; Manning L; Carapetis J, 2019, 'A population pharmacokinetic study of benzathine benzylpenicillin G administration in children and adolescents with rheumatic heart disease: New insights for improved secondary prophylaxis strategies', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74, pp. 1984 - 1991, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkz076

Bowen AC; Daveson K; Anderson L; Tong SYC, 2019, 'An urgent need for antimicrobial stewardship in Indigenous rural and remote primary health care', Medical Journal of Australia, 211, pp. 9 - 11.e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50216

Stratton H; Anderson AJ; O'Brien MP; Powers N; Ravikumara M; Bowen AC; Hazelton B, 2019, 'Spontaneous mediastinal abscess of curious causation', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 55, pp. 873 - 874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.1_14486

Dotel R; Tong SYC; Bowen A; Nelson JN; O'sullivan MVN; Campbell AJ; McMullan BJ; Britton PN; Francis JR; Eisen DP; Robinson O; Manning L; Davis JS, 2019, 'CASSETTE-clindamycin adjunctive therapy for severe Staphylococcus aureus treatment evaluation: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial', Trials, 20, pp. 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3452-y

Campbell AJ; Blyth CC; Hewison CJ; Chen YP; Gough L; Goff Z; Bowen AC, 2019, 'Lessons learned from a hospital-wide review of blood stream infections for paediatric central line-associated blood stream infection prevention', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 55, pp. 690 - 694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.14276

MacKay CI; Anderson A; O'Brien M; Bell L; Bowen AC; Campbell AJ, 2019, 'Purulent and crusted scalp lesions in an infant', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 55, pp. 723, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.1_14432

Ralph AP; Holt DC; Islam S; Osowicki J; Carroll DE; Tong SYC; Bowen AC, 2019, 'Potential for molecular testing for group a streptococcus to improve diagnosis and management in a high-risk population: A prospective study', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz097

Horgan L; Blyth CC; Bowen AC; Nolan DA; McLean-Tooke AP, 2019, 'Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention during pregnancy and lactation: forget not the women and children', Medical Journal of Australia, 210, pp. 281 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50052

Thomas L; Bowen AC; Ly M; Connors C; Andrews R; Tong SYC, 2019, 'Burden of skin disease in two remote primary healthcare centres in northern and central Australia', Internal Medicine Journal, 49, pp. 396 - 399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.14222

May PJ; Tong SYC; Steer AC; Currie BJ; Andrews RM; Carapetis JR; Bowen AC, 2019, 'Treatment, prevention and public health management of impetigo, scabies, crusted scabies and fungal skin infections in endemic populations: a systematic review', Tropical Medicine and International Health, 24, pp. 280 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13198

Westphal DW; Bowen AC, 2019, 'Mumps outbreaks in ethnic subpopulations: what can we learn?', Lancet Infectious Diseases, 19, pp. 119 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30652-2

Campbell AJ; Dotel R; Blyth CC; Davis JS; Tong SYC; Bowen AC, 2019, 'Adjunctive protein synthesis inhibitor antibiotics for toxin suppression in Staphylococcus aureus infections: A systematic appraisal', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dky387

Campbell AJ; Tong SYC; Davis JS; Munro APS; Blyth CC; Bowen AC, 2019, 'Infectious diseases clinician's variation in the management of pediatric Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and equipoise for clinical trials', Frontiers in Pediatrics, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2019.00249

Amgarth-Duff I; Hendrickx D; Bowen A; Carapetis J; Chibawe R; Samson M; Walker R, 2019, 'Talking skin: Attitudes and practices around skin infections, treatment options, and their clinical management in a remote region in Western Australia', Rural and Remote Health, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.22605/RRH5227

Barnett TC; Bowen AC; Carapetis JR, 2019, 'The fall and rise of Group A Streptococcus diseases', Epidemiology and Infection, 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268818002285

Hendrickx D; Bowen AC; Marsh JA; Carapetis JR; Walker R, 2018, 'Ascertaining infectious disease burden through primary care clinic attendance among young Aboriginal children living in four remote communities in Western Australia', Plos One, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203684

Harris TM; Bowen AC; Holt DC; Sarovich DS; Stevens K; Currie BJ; Howden BP; Carapetis JR; Giffard PM; Tong SYC, 2018, 'Investigation of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole resistance in an emerging sequence type 5 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone reveals discrepant resistance reporting', Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 24, pp. 1027 - 1029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2018.04.020

Munro APS; Blyth CC; Campbell AJ; Bowen AC, 2018, 'Infection characteristics and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia at a tertiary children's hospital', BMC Infectious Diseases, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3312-5

Korte LM; Bowen AC; Draper ADK; Davis K; Steel A; Teodora I; Mascarenhas I; Dingle B; Francis JR, 2018, 'Scabies and impetigo in Timor-Leste: A school screening study in two districts', Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006400

Mace AO; McLeod C; Yeoh DK; Vine J; Chen YP; Martin AC; Blyth CC; Bowen AC, 2018, 'Dedicated paediatric Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy medical support: A pre-post observational study', Archives of Disease in Childhood, 103, pp. 165 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-313071

Waddington CS; Mcleod C; Morris P; Bowen A; Naunton M; Carapetis J; Grimwood K; Robins-Browne R; Kirkwood CD; Baird R; Green D; Andrews R; Fearon D; Francis J; Marsh JA; Snelling T, 2018, 'The NICE-GUT trial protocol: A randomised, placebo controlled trial of oral nitazoxanide for the empiric treatment of acute gastroenteritis among Australian Aboriginal children', BMJ Open, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019632

Mace AO; Carter T; Rueter K; Bowen AC, 2018, 'Congenital cytomegalovirus and infantile neutropaenia: A causal relationship?', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 54, pp. 88 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.13675

Abdalla T; Hendrickx D; Fathima P; Walker R; Blyth CC; Carapetis JR; Bowen AC; Moore HC, 2017, 'Hospital admissions for skin infections among Western Australian children and adolescents from 1996 to 2012', Plos One, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188803

Joseph J; Kent N; Bowen A; Hart J; Sheel M; Wardrop R; Abbs S; Bazely S; Rybak M, 2017, 'Immuno-nephelometric determination of group streptococcal anti-streptolysin O titres (ASOT) from dried blood spots: Method for validating a new assay', Journal of Immunological Methods, 448, pp. 59 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jim.2017.05.009

Yeoh DK; Anderson A; Cleland G; Bowen AC, 2017, 'Are scabies and impetigo “normalised”? A cross-sectional comparative study of hospitalised children in northern Australia assessing clinical recognition and treatment of skin infections', Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005726

Palasanthiran P; Bowen AC, 2017, 'The excess burden of severe sepsis in indigenous australian children: Can anything be done?', Medical Journal of Australia, 207, pp. 45 - 45.e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja17.00340

Campbell AJ; Knight G; Walsh P; Bowen AC, 2017, 'Effective treatment of infant botulism on day 13 after symptom onset with human botulism antitoxin', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 53, pp. 416 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.13496

McMullan BJ; Bowen AC; Tong SYC, 2017, 'In reply', JAMA Pediatrics, 171, pp. 301 - 302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.4689

Brown TR; Campbell AJ; Blyth CC; Bowen AC, 2017, 'Pott's puffy tumour', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 53, pp. 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.1_13275

Mcleod C; Yeoh D; Truarn C; Blyth CC; Bowen AC; Snelling TL; Wadia U; Hazelton B; Porter M, 2017, 'A 15-Year Old Burmese Girl with Hemoptysis: A Case Report', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx224

Bowen AC; Carapetis JR; Currie BJ; Fowler V; Chambers HF; Tong SYC, 2017, 'Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (Cotrimoxazole) for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections including Impetigo, Cellulitis, and Abscess', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx232

Palasanthiran P; Bowen AC, 2017, 'The excess burden of severe sepsis in indigenous australian children: Can anything be done?', Medical Journal of Australia, 206, pp. 71 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja16.01311

McMullan BJ; Bowen A; Blyth CC; Van Hal S; Korman TM; Buttery J; Voss L; Roberts S; Cooper C; Tong SYC; Turnidge J, 2016, 'Epidemiology and mortality of staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Australian and New Zealand children', JAMA Pediatrics, 170, pp. 979 - 986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.1477

May P; Bowen A; Tong S; Steer A; Prince S; Andrews R; Currie B; Carapetis J, 2016, 'Protocol for the systematic review of the prevention, treatment and public health management of impetigo, scabies and fungal skin infections in resource-limited settings', Systematic Reviews, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0335-0

May PJ; Bowen AC; Carapetis JR, 2016, 'The inequitable burden of group a streptococcal diseases in indigenous Australians: We need to fill evidence gaps and make clinical advances to reduce these diseases of disadvantage', Medical Journal of Australia, 205, pp. 201 - 2e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja16.00400

McMullan BJ; Andresen D; Blyth CC; Avent ML; Bowen AC; Britton PN; Clark JE; Cooper CM; Curtis N; Goeman E; Hazelton B; Haeusler GM; Khatami A; Newcombe JP; Osowicki J; Palasanthiran P; Starr M; Lai T; Nourse C; Francis JR; Isaacs D; Bryant PA, 2016, 'Antibiotic duration and timing of the switch from intravenous to oral route for bacterial infections in children: systematic review and guidelines', Lancet Infectious Diseases, 16, pp. e139 - e152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30024-X

Yeoh DK; Bowen AC; Carapetis JR, 2016, 'Impetigo and scabies – Disease burden and modern treatment strategies', Journal of Infection, 72, pp. S61 - S67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2016.04.024

Bowen AC; Harris T; Holt DC; Giffard PM; Carapetis JR; Campbell PT; McVernon J; Tong SYC, 2016, 'Whole genome sequencing reveals extensive community-level transmission of group A Streptococcus in remote communities', Epidemiology and Infection, 144, pp. 1991 - 1998, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095026881500326X

Bowen AC; Sheorey H; Bryant PA; Robson J; Burgner DP, 2016, 'Polymerase chain reaction testing for faecal parasites: risks and alternatives', Medical Journal of Australia, 204, pp. 262 - 2e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/MJA15.01327

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