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        Major grant empowers community voices to drive reduction in skin infections

        Aboriginal community members throughout the Kimberley will take a lead role in driving healthy skin messages within their own communities thanks to a major funding boost to the Telethon Kids Institute’s SToP Trial. ...

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        Beating the bugs: a new resource helping to keep skin healthy

        A year after launching the first National Healthy Skin Guideline to address record rates of skin infections in Australia’s Indigenous communities, Telethon Kids Institute has released a new resource as part of the guideline. ...

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        Telethon Kids Institute researchers take out prestigious Premier’s Science Awards

        Three outstanding researchers have won 2023 Premier’s Science Awards, with another inducted into the prestigious WA Science Hall of Fame. ...

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        Molecular diagnosis of scabies using a novel probe-based polymerase chain reaction assay targeting high-copy number repetitive sequences in the sarcoptes scabiei genome

        The suboptimal sensitivity and specificity of available diagnostic methods for scabies hampers clinical management, trials of new therapies and epidemiologic studies. Additionally, parasitologic diagnosis by microscopic examination of skin scrapings requires sample collection with a sharp scalpel blade, causing discomfort to patients and difficulty in children. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based diagnostic assays, combined with non-invasive sampling methods, represent an attractive approach. ...

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        Culturally supported health promotion to See, Treat, Prevent (SToP) skin infections in Aboriginal children living in the Kimberley region of Western Australia: a qualitative analysis

        While there are many skin infections, reducing the burden of scabies and impetigo for remote living Aboriginal people, particularly children remains challenging. Aboriginal children living in remote communities have experienced the highest reported rate of impetigo in the world and are 15 times more likely to be admitted to hospital with a skin infection compared to non-Aboriginal children. ...

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        Research priorities for the primordial prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease by modifying the social determinants of health

        The social determinants of health such as access to income, education, housing and healthcare, strongly shape the occurrence of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease at the household, community and national levels.  ...

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        An urgent need for antimicrobial stewardship in Indigenous rural and remote primary health care

        We write this perspective to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance as an issue in Indigenous primary health care ...

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        Spotting sporotrichosis skin infection: The first Australian paediatric case series

        These data highlight the importance of recognising Sporotrichosis in children outside an outbreak setting ...

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        SToP (See, Treat, Prevent) skin sores and scabies trial: study protocol for a cluster randomised, stepped-wedge trial for skin disease control in remote Western Australia

        Skin infection burden in remote Aboriginal communities can be reduced by the See, Treat, Prevent (SToP skin sores and scabies) trial ...

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        Scabies and impetigo in Timor-Leste: A school screening study in two districts

        Scabies and impetigo are common in Timor-Leste, with very high prevalence of scabies in the rural district of Ermera ...

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