Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have an inequitable burden of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), concentrated among young people and necessitating ongoing medical care during adolescence. There is an unmet need for improved well-being and support for these young people to complement current biomedical management. ...

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• 2021
• August 2021

The Secret Life of Your Microbiome shatters this deeply held myth, presenting a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science ...

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• 2017
• January 2017

In preparation for the future arrival of a group A Streptococcus (GAS) vaccine, this study estimated the economic and health burdens of GAS diseases in New Zealand. The annual incidence of GAS diseases was based on extrapolation of the average number of primary healthcare episodes managed each year in general practices (2014-2016) and on the average number of hospitalizations occurring each year (2005-2014). Disease incidence was multiplied by the average cost of diagnosing and managing an episode of disease at each level of care to estimate the annual economic burden. ...

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• 2021
• February 2021

Here, the role, status, and directions in Group A Streptococcus vaccines research are discussed ...

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• 2019
• August 2019

The re-emergence of scarlet fever poses a new global public health threat. The capacity of North-East Asian serotype M12 (emm12) Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus, GAS) to cause scarlet fever has been linked epidemiologically to the presence of novel prophages ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Both human and murine studies report that multiple exposures to sub-erythemal UV radiation can increase the diversity of the gut microbiome ...

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• 2020
• January 2020

HealthNuts is a single-centre, multi-wave, population-based longitudinal study designed to assess prevalence, determinants, natural history and allergy... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

The diagnosis of food allergy (FA) can be challenging because approximately half of food-sensitized patients are asymptomatic. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Anthony Janessa Ruth Tim Kicic Pickering Thornton Barnett A Dr RT TB BSc (Hons) PhD BSc PhD PhD PhD Rothwell Family Fellow; Head, Airway Epithelial Research Senior Research Fellow (currently HOT NORTH Early Career Fellow) Co-head, Bacterial ...

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Here we discuss how skin exposure to sunlight may suppress liver inflammation and the severity of NAFLD. ...

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• 2015
• May 2015

Janessa Lea-Ann Peter Ruth Pickering Kirkham Richmond Thornton Dr LK PC RT BSc PhD PhD MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP PhD Senior Research Fellow (currently HOT NORTH Early Career Fellow) Co-Head, Bacterial Respiratory Infectious Disease Group; Microbiology ...

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We aimed to measure the incidence and severity of invasive Group A Strep disease in the NT since 1996. ...

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• 2014
• January 2014