Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), sometimes referred to as chronic otitis media (COM), is a chronic inflammation and often polymicrobial infection (involving more than one micro-organism) of the middle ear and mastoid cavity, characterised by ear discharge (otorrhoea) through a perforated tympanic membrane. The predominant symptoms of CSOM are ear discharge and hearing loss. Antibiotics are the most common treatment for CSOM, which act to kill or inhibit the growth of micro-organisms that may be responsible for the infection. ...

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• 2021
• February 2021

This multinational study presents unique body mass index z score trajectories in youth with type 1 diabetes across three continents ...

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• 2020
• February 2020

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

The prevalence of stillbirth in many high income countries like Australia has remained unchanged for over 30 years. The 2018 Australian government Senate Select Committee on Stillbirth Research and Education highlighted the need for a public health campaign to encourage public conversations and increase awareness. ...

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• 2022
• July 2022

The aim of our investigation was to assess the chemical composition of a range of e-liquids available in Australia, focusing on nicotine and other potentially harmful compounds ...

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• 2019
• February 2019

Momentum towards eradication has been building for decades, and more than half of the world's countries are now malaria free ...

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• 2019
• September 2019

Exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEP) is thought to exacerbate many pre-existing respiratory diseases. ...

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• 2012
• September 2012

Difference in stillbirth and neonatal death rates in Western Australia (1998-2010) by maternal ethnicity ...

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• 2016
• October 2016

Compared the in vitro susceptibility of two strains of Trypanosoma copemani and one strain of T. cruzi against drugs that show trypanocidal activity ...

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• 2017
• April 2017

This work initially examines particle deposition in a Weibull-type geometry, comparing traditional computational fluid dynamics approaches with a novel... ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

The high prevalence of social, emotional and behavioural health problems in children and young people in Australia ...

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• 2011
• July 2011

Findings show that indicators of a poor intrauterine environment are associated with an elevated risk of ID, while for ASD, and particularly ASD without ID,... ...

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• 2013
• January 2013