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Bold bid to end rheumatic heart disease

Some of the nation’s leading medical researchers will converge on Darwin this week to step out a plan to wipe out rheumatic heart disease.

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Pre-onset risk characteristics for mania among young people at clinical high risk for psychosis

We aimed to identify the rate and predictors of transition to mania in a cohort of youth with clinical or familial risk for psychosis.

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Understanding group A streptococcal pharyngitis and skin infections as causes of rheumatic fever: Protocol for a prospective disease incidence study

This study will identify the incidence of true Group A Streptococcal pharyngitis and serological responses to Group A Streptococcal GAS skin infections

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Initial acquisition and succession of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome is associated with disease progression in infants and preschool children

We characterized the lower airways microbiome using BAL samples obtained from clinically stable CF young children who underwent bronchoscopy and chest CT.

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Prominent IgE-binding and cytokine-inducing capacities of a newly cloned N-terminal region of Der f 14, an apolipophorin-like house dust mite allergen

The aims of this study were to clone the cDNA of Der f 14 corresponding to M-177 and to elucidate the allergenic capacities of the Der f 14-N.

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An in silico pipeline to filter the Toxoplasma gondii proteome for proteins that could traffic to the host cell nucleus and influence host cell epigenetic regulation

To identify genes with putative epigenetic functions, we developed an in silico pipeline to interrogate the T. gondii proteome of 8313 proteins

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Optimising the use of linked administrative data for infectious diseases research in Australia

Increased collaboration and engagement across all sectors can optimise the use of linked data to help reduce the burden of infectious diseases

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Patterns of sedentary time and ambulatory physical activity in a Danish population of girls and women with Rett syndrome

We aimed to: (1) describe the patterns of sedentary time and daily steps and (2) identify the association of individual and environmental characteristitics.

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Linking FANTOM5 CAGE peaks to annotations with CAGEscan

Here, we present the production and quality control of CAGEscan libraries from 56 FANTOM5 RNA sources

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Broad perspectives of allergen specific immunotherapy

Allergen specific immunotherapy aims to subvert or divert immune responses to allergens to ones that do not cause immunological hypersensitivities.

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Alcohol consumption in a general antenatal population and child neurodevelopment at 2 years

This study examines the association between PAE in the general antenatal population and child neurodevelopment at 2 years, accounting for relevant factors.