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The American Heart Association’s Call to Action for Reducing the Global Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Policy Statement From the American Heart AssociationJoseph Rosemary Jonathan Kado Wyber Carapetis AM PhD MBChB MPH FRACGP PhD AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Senior Research Fellow Senior Research
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Subcutaneous administration of benzathine benzylpenicillin G has favourable pharmacokinetic characteristics for the prevention of rheumatic heart disease compared with intramuscular injectionBenzathine penicillin G has been used as monthly deep intramuscular (IM) injections since the 1950s for secondary prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Injection frequency and pain are major programmatic barriers for adherence, prompting calls for development of better long-acting penicillin preparations to prevent RHD.
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Contemporary Incidence and Prevalence of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Australia Using Linked Data: The Case for Policy ChangeJonathan Judy Alex Jeffrey Rosemary Carapetis AM Katzenellenbogen Brown Cannon Wyber AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS BSc (Occ Ther) BSc Hons (
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Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy: Profile of women admitted to a Western Australian tertiary obstetric hospitalThis retrospective study assessed maternal and perinatal outcomes for women with rheumatic heart disease admitted to the largest tertiary obstetric hospital
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Factors associated with pneumococcal carriage and density in children and adults in Fiji, using four cross-sectional surveysThis study describes predictors of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage and density in Fiji
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The cost-of-illness due to rheumatic heart disease: national estimates for FijiWe estimate for the first time the total cost of RHD for Fiji (2008-2012) using a cost-of-illness approach and novel primary data on RHD disease burden and costs.
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Strengthening health systems to support children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in Fiji—A commentaryLeadership and collaboration has resulted in increased capacity in the Fijian health system to support children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
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Genetic Manipulation of Group A Streptococcus-Gene Deletion by Allelic ReplacementAn optimized, rapid method for creating markerless isogenic mutations that combines Gibson assembly cloning with a new temperature-sensitive plasmid, pLZts
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Availability and administration of benzathine penicillin G for the prevention of rheumatic fever in Africa: Report of the Working Group on PenicillinBenzathine penicillin G availability should be addressed and African health workers’ knowledge and practices need to be augmented
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A Comparison of Pneumococcal Nasopharyngeal Carriage in Very Young Fijian Infants Born by Vaginal or Cesarean DeliveryPneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence and density were higher in infants delivered vaginally compared with those delivered by cesarean birth