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Links2HealthierBubs' cohort study: Protocol for a study on the safety, uptake and effectiveness of influenza and pertussis vaccines among pregnant Australian womenMulti-jurisdictional cohort of mother-infant pairs to measure the uptake, safety and effectiveness of antenatal IIV and dTpa vaccines in three Australian jurisdictions
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Improving delivery of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease in a high-burden setting: Outcome of a stepped-wedge, community, randomized trialThis strategy did not improve adherence to rheumatic heart disease secondary prophylaxis within the study time frame.
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Qualitative Evaluation of a Complex Intervention to Improve Rheumatic Heart Disease Secondary ProphylaxisA multifaceted intervention was implemented using quality improvement and chronic care model approaches to improve delivery of penicillin prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease
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High Dose Vitamin D supplementation alters faecal microbiome and predisposes mice to more severe colitisHigh dose vitamin D supplementation is associated with a shift to a more inflammatory faecal microbiome and increased susceptibility to colitis
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Out-of-Home Care and the Educational Achievement, Attendance, and Suspensions of Maltreated Children: A Propensity-Matched StudyOut-of-home care was not found to be a significant factor in the adverse educational outcomes of these children
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Candidate gene testing in clinical cohort studies with multiplexed genotyping and mass spectrometryWe describe a cost-effective tag single nucleotide polymorphism approach using a multiplexed genotyping assay with mass spectrometry
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Autoimmune antibodies and asbestos exposure: Evidence from Wittenoom, Western AustraliaThis study is the first to report increased anti-nuclear antibodies positivity among persons exposed exclusively to crocidolite
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Combination of clinical symptoms and blood biomarkers can improve discrimination between bacterial or viral community-acquired pneumonia in childrenCombining elevated CRP with the presence or absence of clinical signs/ symptoms differentiates definite bacterial from presumed viral pneumonia better than CRP alone
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The clinical utility of lung clearance index in early cystic fibrosis lung disease is not impacted by the number of multiple-breath washout trialsThis study aimed to determine if relationships between LCI and clinical outcomes of CF lung disease differ when only two acceptable MBW trials are assessed.
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Persistent activation of interlinked type 2 airway epithelial gene networks in sputum-derived cells from aeroallergen-sensitized symptomatic asthmaticsOur findings provide new insight into the molecular mechanisms operative at baseline in the airway mucosa in atopic asthmatic with natural aeroallergen exposure