Group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis has traditionally been considered the sole precursor of acute rheumatic fever (ARF). Evidence from Australia, however, suggests that GAS skin infections may contribute to the pathogenesis of ARF. ...

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• 2020
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The science that interprets the way nutrients and other substances in food affect maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease. ...

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Viridans group streptococci (VGS) are an important cause of sepsis in immunosuppressed children. We reviewed the effectiveness of risk-stratified addition of vancomycin to empiric febrile neutropenia therapy among 107 children with leukemia or undergoing an allogeneic transplant. ...

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• 2021
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Charlie Rebecca Christopher McLeod Pavlos Blyth CM RP CC MBBS (Hons), FRACP, PhD, DTM&H, DCH PhD, MSFS, MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Paediatric Infectious Diseases Clinician Researcher, Research Fellow, Raine Fellow, Deputy Director of the ...

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Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of community and health care-associated bacteremia, with authors of recent studies estimating the incidence of S aureus bacteremia (SAB) in high-income countries between 8 and 26 per 100 000 children per year. Despite this, <300 children worldwide have ever been randomly assigned into clinical trials to assess the efficacy of treatment of SAB. ...

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• 2020
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Yael Bep Gail Francis Jenny Hayley Ben Penelope Samantha Perry Uink Alvares Mitrou Downs Passmore Jackson Strauss Speirs YP BU GA FG JA HP BJ PS SS BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD PhD BEc BApplSci (physio) MSc ...

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The objective of this study was to describe the occurrence of skin infection associated hospitalizations in children born in Western Australia (WA). ...

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Dr Anita Asha Campbell Bowen AC AC MBBS, DCH, PG DipPID, FRACP, NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD Infectious Diseases Physician, Deputy Director of the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Team Lead, ...

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A wet cough in a child for more than four weeks could indicate infection in the lungs. The wet cough is caused by mucus in the airway. The mucus becomes infected with bacteria and causes airway inflammation that can progress to permanent lung damage known as bronchiectasis. ...

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Developmental Coordination Disorder is a lifelong disability impacting most aspects of daily living that involve movement. With an estimated prevalence of ~5% of children, the disorder affects an average of one to two children in every Australian classroom. ...

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Pneumonia remains a leading cause of hospitalization and death among young children worldwide, and the diagnostic challenge of differentiating bacterial from non-bacterial pneumonia is the main driver of antibiotic use for treating pneumonia in children. Causal Bayesian networks (BNs) serve as powerful tools for this problem as they provide clear maps of probabilistic relationships between variables and produce results in an explainable way by incorporating both domain expert knowledge and numerical data. ...

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• 2023
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André Timo Anthony Kathryn Peter Sam Alex Bep Thomas Schultz Lassmann Kicic Ramsey Richmond Buckberry Brown Uink Iosifidis AS T A KR PC SB AB BU TI MBChB, PhD, FRACP BSc (Hons) MSc PhD BSc (Hons) PhD BSc (Hons), PhD MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP BSc, BHlthSc ...

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