Reports and Findings

Research

Adverse outcomes for people with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease and the effect of comorbidities and demographic factors on these outcomes

Research

Recent data on the epidemiology of impetigo and scabies and describe the current evidence around approaches to individual and community based treatment

Research

Vaccines against Streptococcus pyogenes are considered as impeded vaccines because of a number of crucial barriers to development

Research

The key objective of this study is to collect data about patient and clinician preferences about reformulations.

Research

Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) can identify individuals with subclinical disease who could benefit from antibiotic prophylaxis.

Research

Develop a 'roadmap' of key actions that need to be taken by governments to eliminate ARF and eradicate RHD in Africa

Research

Treatment success for scabies co-infection was lower than for impetigo overall, with a higher success seen in the co-trimoxazole group than benzylpenicillin

Research

This study demonstrates the potential use of plasma metabolites to identify causality in children with severe febrile illness in malaria-endemic settings

Research

A 7-year old boy developed myositis secondary to intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin-G in the context of secondary prophylaxis for RF

Research

There was evidence of extensive transmission of group A Streptococcus both within households and across the community