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A Survey of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Clinicians in Australia and New Zealand About the Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

A biological model of scabies infection dynamics and treatment informs mass drug administration strategies to increase the likelihood of elimination

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

A double-blind randomized controlled trial of ibuprofen compared to placebo for uncomplicated cellulitis of the upper or lower limb.

scientific article

A large retrospective cohort study of cefazolin compared with flucloxacillin for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

A novel clinical grading scale to guide the management of crusted scabies

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A pox on the heart: five cases of cardiovascular syphilis.

scientific article published in March 2006

A very early-branching Staphylococcus aureus lineage lacking the carotenoid pigment staphyloxanthin

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Adjunctive protein synthesis inhibitor antibiotics for toxin suppression in Staphylococcus aureus infections: a systematic appraisal

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Analysis of bla(SHV) codon 238 and 240 allele mixtures using Sybr green high-resolution melting analysis.

scientific article published on 06 April 2009

Antibiotic resistance in uropathogens across northern Australia 2007-20 and impact on treatment guidelines

scientific article published on 14 August 2021

Antimicrobial Resistance in Urine and Skin Isolates in Timor-Leste.

scientific article

Antimicrobial stewardship in remote primary healthcare across northern Australia

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Atlas of group A streptococcal vaccine candidates compiled using large-scale comparative genomics

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Australia needs a prioritised national research strategy for clinical trials in a pandemic: lessons learned from COVID‐19

scientific article published in 2021

Author Correction: Atlas of group A streptococcal vaccine candidates compiled using large-scale comparative genomics

scientific article published on 1 August 2019

Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19

scientific article published in 2020

Breadth of concomitant immune responses underpinning viral clearance and patient recovery in a non-severe case of COVID-19

scientific article (preprint)

CAMERA2 - combination antibiotic therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell landscape in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people restricted by influenza mortality-associated HLA-A*24:02 allomorph

scientific article published on 18 May 2021

Calculation of the age of the first infection for skin sores and scabies in five remote communities in northern Australia

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Characterization of a novel thermostable nuclease homolog (NucM) in a highly divergent Staphylococcus aureus clade

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Chlamydia trachomatis from Australian Aboriginal people with trachoma are polyphyletic composed of multiple distinctive lineages.

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Chlamydia trachomatis genotypes in a cross-sectional study of urogenital samples from remote Northern and Central Australia.

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Clinical correlates of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), PVL isoforms, and clonal complex in the Staphylococcus aureus population of Northern Australia.

scientific article published on September 2010

Clinical predictors and prediction rules to estimate initial patient risk for infective endocarditis in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: attention must be paid to the reference standard

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19: current state of play

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Colonization, pathogenicity, host susceptibility, and therapeutics for Staphylococcus aureus: what is the clinical relevance? ⬇️

scientific article published on December 11, 2011

Combination antibiotic treatment of serious methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.

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Community-associated MRSA from the Indian subcontinent.

scientific article published in September 2013

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections in the tropics.

scientific article published on January 2011

Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in hospitalized patients in tropical northern Australia ⬇️

scientific article published on January 15, 2013

Comparative M-protein analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes from pharyngitis and skin infections in New Zealand: Implications for vaccine development

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Comparison of three methods for the recovery of skin pathogens from impetigo swabs collected in a remote community of Northern Territory, Australia ⬇️

scientific article published on April 23, 2013

Complicated skin and soft tissue infections in remote indigenous communities

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Contaminated fingers: a potential cause of Chlamydia trachomatis-positive urine specimens.

scientific article published on 09 June 2017

DAPTOMYCIN RESISTANCE IN STAPHYLOCOCCUS ARGENTEUS: FROM NORTHERN AUSTRALIA TO SAN FRANCISCO

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Differing epidemiology of two major healthcare-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones.

scientific article published on 21 November 2015

Disproportionate impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on Indigenous people in the Top End of Australia's Northern Territory.

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Echocardiographic agreement in the diagnostic evaluation for infective endocarditis

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Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Epidemiological trends in notified influenza cases in Australia's Northern Territory, 2007-2016

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Epidemiology and Mortality of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Australian and New Zealand Children

scientific article

Establishing contemporary trends in hepatitis B sero-epidemiology in an Indigenous population

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Estimation of the force of infection and infectious period of skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Evolution and Global Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from the Indian Subcontinent

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Gene exchange drives the ecological success of a multi-host bacterial pathogen

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Genome-Wide Analysis of Genetic Risk Factors for Rheumatic Heart Disease in Aboriginal Australians Provides Support for Pathogenic Molecular Mimicry.

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Genomic insights to control the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Genomic polish for shoe-leather epidemiology.

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Global Scale Dissemination of ST93: A Divergent Epidemic Lineage That Has Recently Emerged From Remote Northern Australia

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Good Studies Evaluate the Disease While Great Studies Evaluate the Patient: Development and Application of a Desirability of Outcome Ranking Endpoint for Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Hepatitis D is rare or non‐existent in hepatitis B virus‐infected Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Hepatocellular carcinoma in Australia's Northern Territory: high incidence and poor outcome.

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High burden of complicated skin and soft tissue infections in the Indigenous population of Central Australia due to dominant Panton Valentine leucocidin clones ST93-MRSA and CC121-MSSA.

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High burden of infectious disease and antibiotic use in early life in Australian Aboriginal communities

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Illness in travelers visiting friends and relatives: a review of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network

scientific article published on 26 September 2006

Immortal Time Bias in Assessing Evidence-Based Care Processes for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

scientific article published in February 2018

Impact of ethnicity and socio-economic status on Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia incidence and mortality: a heavy burden in Indigenous Australians ⬇️

scientific article published on October 9, 2012

Impact of results of a rapid Staphylococcus aureus diagnostic test on prescribing of antibiotics for patients with clustered gram-positive cocci in blood cultures.

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Implications of asymptomatic carriers for infectious disease transmission and control.

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Children in Tropical Northern Australia.

scientific article

Investigation of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistance in an emerging sequence type 5 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone reveals discrepant resistance reporting.

scientific article published on 30 April 2018

Is Streptococcus pyogenes resistant or susceptible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole?

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Lessons learned in genetic research with Indigenous Australian participants

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Minim typing--a rapid and low cost MLST based typing tool for Klebsiella pneumoniae

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Molecular basis for universal HLA-A*0201-restricted CD8+ T-cell immunity against influenza viruses

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis B in the Indigenous people of northern Australia.

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Morphometric study of the gubernaculum in male estrogen receptor mutant mice.

scientific article published in March 1996

Multisite Direct Determination of the Potential for Environmental Contamination of Urine Samples Used for Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infections.

scientific article

Mycobacterial mimicry in a man from Myanmar

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Niche-specific genome degradation and convergent evolution shaping Staphylococcus aureus adaptation during severe infections

scientific article published on 14 June 2022

Nocardiosis in the Tropical Northern Territory of Australia, 1997-2014.

scientific article published on October 2016

Novel staphylococcal species that form part of a Staphylococcus aureus-related complex: the non-pigmented Staphylococcus argenteus sp. nov. and the non-human primate-associated Staphylococcus schweitzeri sp. nov.

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Phylogenetically distinct Staphylococcus aureus lineage prevalent among indigenous communities in northern Australia.

scientific article published on 06 May 2009

Point of care and oral fluid hepatitis B testing in remote Indigenous communities of northern Australia

scientific article published on 22 December 2019

Population pharmacokinetics of ivermectin for the treatment of scabies in Indigenous Australian children

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Preexisting CD8+ T-cell immunity to the H7N9 influenza A virus varies across ethnicities

scientific article

Preliminary validation of a novel high-resolution melt-based typing method based on the multilocus sequence typing scheme of Streptococcus pyogenes

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

Prevalence of late orchidopexy is consistent with some undescended testes being acquired

scientific article published on 01 November 1996

Progressive increase in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Indigenous populations in northern Australia from 1993 to 2012.

scientific article published on 10 October 2014

Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler.

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Proposed primary endpoints for use in clinical trials that compare treatment options for bloodstream infection in adults: a consensus definition.

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Protocol for the systematic review of the prevention, treatment and public health management of impetigo, scabies and fungal skin infections in resource-limited settings

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Reduced In Vitro Activity of Ceftaroline by Etest among Clonal Complex 239 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Strains from Australia

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Reduction in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates in patients receiving haemodialysis following alteration of skin antisepsis procedures

scientific article published on December 2015

Reference exome data for Australian Aboriginal populations to support health-based research

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Restricted Sequence Variation in Streptococcus pyogenes Penicillin Binding Proteins

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Scabies and risk of skin sores in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: A self-controlled case series study

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Sequence element enrichment analysis to determine the genetic basis of bacterial phenotypes

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

Short-course oral co-trimoxazole versus intramuscular benzathine benzylpenicillin for impetigo in a highly endemic region: an open-label, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

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Single-molecule sequencing reveals the molecular basis of multidrug-resistance in ST772 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Standardising and assessing digital images for use in clinical trials: a practical, reproducible method that blinds the assessor to treatment allocation.

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Staphylococcus aureus Prostatic abscess: a clinical case report and a review of the literature.

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Staphylococcus aureus infections: epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and management. ⬇️

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Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus meningitis complicated by venous sinus thrombosis: A case report.

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Sub-optimal protection against past hepatitis B virus infection where subtype mismatch exists between vaccine and circulating viral genotype in northern Australia

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Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (Cotrimoxazole) for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Including Impetigo, Cellulitis, and Abscess

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Targeting Staphylococcus aureus in Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Bundles-Reply.

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

The Global Epidemiology of Impetigo: A Systematic Review of the Population Prevalence of Impetigo and Pyoderma

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

The Importance of Scabies Coinfection in the Treatment Considerations for Impetigo.

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The clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in Fiji.

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The epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infection in the southern Barkly region of Australia's Northern Territory in 2017

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

The microbiology of impetigo in indigenous children: associations between Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, scabies, and nasal carriage

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The rise of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: now the dominant cause of skin and soft tissue infection in Central Australia.

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

The role of Staphylococcal carotenogenesis in resistance to host defense peptides and in vivo virulence in experimental endocarditis model.

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The unique aspects of chronic hepatitis B infection in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

scientific article published in April 2018

The utility of high-resolution melting analysis of SNP nucleated PCR amplicons--an MLST based Staphylococcus aureus typing scheme

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Towards identification of immune and genetic correlates of severe influenza disease in Indigenous Australians

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Towards identification of immune and genetic correlates of severe influenza disease in Indigenous Australians

scientific article published on August 2017

Treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: vancomycin and beyond.

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Treatment, prevention and public health management of impetigo, scabies, crusted scabies and fungal skin infections in endemic populations: a systematic review

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Using genomics to understand meticillin- and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections

scientific article published on 1 January 2020

Vancomycin dosing nomogram for haemodialysis patients

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

What risk of endocarditis is low enough to justify the omission of transoesophageal echocardiography in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia? A narrative review.

scientific article

When is hypospadias not hypospadias?

scientific article published in February 1996

Whole genome sequencing reveals extensive community-level transmission of group A Streptococcus in remote communities.

scientific article published on February 2016

from patients with chronic rhinosinusitis show minimal genetic association between polyp and non-polyp phenotypes

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

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