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        Scabies and risk of skin sores in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: A self-controlled case series study

        The association between scabies and skin sores is highly significant and indicates a causal relationship ...

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        Epidemiology of intussusception before and after rotavirus vaccine introduction in Fiji

        The incidence of intussusception pre-rotavirus vaccine in Fiji is low ...

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        Repeat pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in Indigenous Australian adults is associated with decreased immune responsiveness

        These findings highlight the critical need to evaluate the efficacy of future pneumococcal vaccine programs in the Australian Indigenous populations that recommend repeated doses of 23vPPV. ...

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        Protocol for the systematic review of the epidemiology of superficial Streptococcal A infections (skin and throat) in Australia

        We have produced a protocol for the comprehensive systematic review of the current literature around superficial group A Streptococcal infections in Australia. ...

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        Comparison of group A streptococcal titres in healthy children and those with pharyngitis and skin infections

        Rates of acute rheumatic fever, a sequelae of group A Streptococcal (GAS) infection, remain unacceptably high in Indigenous Māori and Pacific children in New Zealand. This prospective study aimed to describe GAS antibody titres in healthy children (5–14 years) by ethnicity, and to determine how paired titres vary with GAS culture positive and negative pharyngitis, and GAS skin infections. ...

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        Status of research and development of vaccines for Streptococcus pyogenes

        Vaccines against Streptococcus pyogenes are considered as impeded vaccines because of a number of crucial barriers to development ...

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        Changes in the clinical and epidemiological features of group A streptococcal bacteraemia in Australia's Northern Territory

        This study adds to emerging data suggesting increasing importance of iGAS in low- and middle-income settings globally. ...

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        Screening for rheumatic heart disease: Quality and agreement of focused cardiac ultrasound by briefly trained health workers

        After brief training, health workers with no prior experience in echocardiography can obtain adequate quality images and make a reliable assessment ...

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        Controlling acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in developing countries: Are we getting closer?

        Improved opportunities for the primary prevention of ARF now exist, because of point-of-care antigen tests for Streptococcus pyogenes, and clinical decision... ...

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        Streptococcus, Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Epidemiology and Clinical Considerations

        A directed approach to the differential diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever now includes the concept of low-risk versus medium-to-high risk populations ...

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