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Repeat pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in Indigenous Australian adults is associated with decreased immune responsivenessThese 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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Screening for rheumatic heart disease: Quality and agreement of focused cardiac ultrasound by briefly trained health workersAfter brief training, health workers with no prior experience in echocardiography can obtain adequate quality images and make a reliable assessment
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Changes in the clinical and epidemiological features of group A streptococcal bacteraemia in Australia's Northern TerritoryThis study adds to emerging data suggesting increasing importance of iGAS in low- and middle-income settings globally.
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A Retrospective case-series of children with bone and joint infection from northern AustraliaWe report osteomyelitis incidence in indigenous children of northern Australia is amongst the highest reported in the world
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Status of research and development of vaccines for Streptococcus pyogenesVaccines against Streptococcus pyogenes are considered as impeded vaccines because of a number of crucial barriers to development
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Streptococcus, Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Epidemiology and Clinical ConsiderationsA 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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A systematic and functional classification of Streptococcus pyogenes that serves as a new tool for molecular typing and vaccine development.This publication is a systematic analysis of all Group A Streptococcus M protein variants, to assist in the development of a vaccine.
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Invasive group A streptococcal infection in the Northern Territory, Australia: Case report and review of the literatureThis review article presents the case of infant Aboriginal twins with invasive group A streptococcal infection complicated by streptococcal toxic shock...
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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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Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in young adults from New CaledoniaThe prevalence of echocardiographically diagnosed RHD in adults in New Caledonia is estimated at 5.9 per 1000