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Screening for rheumatic heart disease: current approaches and controversiesIn endemic areas, RHD has long been a target of screening programmes that, historically, have relied on cardiac auscultation.
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Safety and Immunogenicity of Neonatal Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination in Papua New Guinean Children: A Randomised Controlled TrialWe conducted an open randomized controlled trial in Papua New Guinea to compare safety, immunogenicity and priming for memory of 7-valent PCV (PCV7) given in...
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Acute Rheumatic Fever and Chronic Rheumatic DiseaseThis chapter describes the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnostic criteria, and management principles of acute rheumatic fever.
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Prevalence and risk factors for cervical HPV infection and abnormalities in young adult women at enrolment in the multinational PATRICIA trialWe evaluated baseline data from the PApilloma TRIal against Cancer In young Adults (PATRICIA; NCT00122681) on the association between behavioral risk factors...
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Association between early bacterial carriage and otitis media in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal childrenStreptococcus pneumoniae (Pnc), nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and Moraxella catarrhalis (Mcat) are the most important bacterial pathogens...
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Polymorphisms in key innate immune genes and their effects on measles vaccine responses and vaccine failure in children from MozambiqueDespite an effective vaccine, measles remains a major health problem globally, particularly in developing countries. More than 30% of children show primary...
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Immunogenicity and safety of measles-mumps-rubella and varicella vaccines coadministeredA pooled analysis was conducted of 1,257 toddlers who received a fourth dose of Haemophilus influenzae type b- Neisseria meningitidis serogroups C and...
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Respiratory viral pathogens associated with lower respiratory tract disease among young childrenAcute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) commonly result in fatal outcomes in the young children of Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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Prevalence of and risk factors for human rhinovirus infection in healthy aboriginal and non-aboriginal western australian childrenHuman rhinovirus (HRV) species C (HRV-C) have been associated with frequent and severe acute lower respiratory infections and asthma in hospitalized children.
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Reduced rhinovirus-specific antibodies are associated with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructiveAcute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) are often linked to respiratory infections.