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The WHF Roadmap for Reducing CV Morbidity and Mortality Through Prevention and Control of Rheumatic Heart Disease

As a general guide, the Roadmap is meant to serve as the foundation for the development of tailored plans of action to improve RHD control in specifi…

Early nutrition and its effect on allergy development

Nutrition is one of the most easily modifiable environmental factors during early life that may play a role in allergic disease prevention.

Small macrophages are present in early childhood respiratory disease

Recently, an established "small macrophage" phenotype has been observed in the sputum of patients with CF and COPD. However, little is known about th…

Effectiveness of clindamycin and intravenous immunoglobulin, and risk of disease in contacts, in invasive group a streptococcal infections

This paper reports on treatment, and preventing infection in close contact, of invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) using the antibiotic clindamycin…

Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease in high and low risk Australian children

We aimed to establish the prevalence of RHD in high-risk Indigenous Australian children using these criteria and to compare the findings with a group…

Why should all primary school aged kids get a free flu vaccine this winter?

Chris Blyth, paediatrician and infectious disease researcher at the <a href="https://infectiousdiseases

Defining the fetal origin of MLL-AF4 infant leukemia highlights specific fatty acid requirements

Infant MLL-AF4-driven acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a devastating disease with dismal prognosis. A lack of understanding of the unique biolog…

The inequitable burden of infectious diseases among remote-living Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: a product of history

Although Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) is the sixth-most common infectious disease globally, its transmission within the household remains an unde…