Roadmap to incorporating group A Streptococcus molecular point-of-care testing for remote Australia: a key activity to eliminate rheumatic heart disease

Med J Aust. 2022 Aug 28;217(6):279-282. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51692. Online ahead of print.

Dylan D Barth^{1

2}, Gelsa Cinanni², Jonathan R Carapetis^{1

2}, Rosemary Wyber^{2

3}, Louise Causer⁴, Caroline Watts⁴, Belinda Hengel⁴, Susan Matthews⁵, Anna P Ralph^{6

7}, Janessa Pickering², Jeffrey W Cannon², Lorraine Anderson⁸, Vicki Wade⁶, Rebecca J Guy⁴, Asha C Bowen^{1

2}

¹ University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.
² Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, WA.
³ The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW.
⁴ Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
⁵ Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA.
⁶ Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT.
⁷ Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, NT.
⁸ Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Limited, Broome, WA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Diagnostic tests and procedures; Epidemiology.