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Seven key actions to eradicate rheumatic heart disease in Africa: The Addis Ababa communiquDevelop a 'roadmap' of key actions that need to be taken by governments to eliminate ARF and eradicate RHD in Africa
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Addressing the challenges of cross-jurisdictional data linkage between a national clinical quality registry and government-held health dataDescribing the challenges of obtaining state and nationally held data for linkage to a non-government national clinical registry
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Impetigo and scabies - Disease burden and modern treatment strategiesRecent data on the epidemiology of impetigo and scabies and describe the current evidence around approaches to individual and community based treatment
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Partnering with communities to reduce rheumatic heart disease in the KimberleyThe Kimberley has the highest rates of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Western Australia – but through the establishment of a new community-led, research-backed project known as END RHD Communities, there’s hope this will change.
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Honey as a potential topical treatment for skin infections: a literature reviewAsha Glenn Marianne Bowen Pearson Mullane AC G MM BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD OAM BA (Education) PhD Candidate BSc (OT) Head, Healthy Skin and ARF
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Improving delivery of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart diseaseJonathan Carapetis AM JR AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Executive Director; Co-Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH 08 6319 1000 contact@
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Development of methods to rapidly track pathogen and antibiotic resistance profiles from skin sores in Northern Australia (Hot North)Asha Jonathan Marianne Tim Bowen Carapetis AM Mullane Barnett AC JR MM TB BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD OAM AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS BSc (OT) PhD
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Standardising and assessing digital images for use in clinical trials: A practical, reproducible method that blinds the assessor to treatment allocationWe describe the development and evaluation of a protocol for digital image collection by the non-professional photographer in a remote setting research trial
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Prevention of rheumatic fever and heart disease: Nepalese experienceHistorically, many young people suffered severe valvular disease and died awaiting heart valve replacement.
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A Systematic Framework for Prioritizing Burden of Disease Data Required for Vaccine Development and Implementation: The Case for Group A Streptococcal DiseasesVaccine development and implementation decisions need to be guided by accurate and robust burden of disease data. We developed an innovative systematic framework outlining the properties of such data that are needed to advance vaccine development and evaluation, and prioritize research and surveillance activities.