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Reports and Findings

Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is the result of an autoimmune response to pharyngitis caused by infection with group A Streptococcus.

Maternity-care: measuring women’s perceptions

Development of an instrument to assess women's perception of their entire maternity-care experience

Encouraging the positive use of technology through community engagement

Describe a seven stage community engagement process to develop and disseminate community uptake strategies which encouraged cyber safety

Validating the rett syndrome gross motor scale

The Rett Syndrome Gross Motor Scale could be an appropriate measure of gross motor skills in clinical practice and clinical trials

Exploring local government areas with significant shifts in child development between 2009 and 2012 on the Australian Early Development Census

This project analysed AEDC results across Australia, to identify communities with significant improvement (decreases in developmental vulnerability) between 2009 and 2012

Transcriptome analysis of recurrently deregulated genes across multiple cancers identifies new pan-cancer biomarkers

Genomewide expression profiling approach identified a comprehensive set of candidate biomarkers with pan-cancer potential

Respiratory syncytial virus is present in the neonatal intensive care unit

The results suggest that though the risk for RSV in the NICU remains low, personnel clothing are contaminated with RSV-RNA and may have a role in transmission

ABCA3 lung disease in an ex 27 week preterm infant responsive to systemic glucocorticosteroids

This is a case of ABCA3 lung disease that demonstrated improvement after systemic glucocorticosteroid administration

It takes a village to raise a child: The influence and impact of playgroups across Australia

Comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Community Playgroups across Australia