Publications by authors named "Rachel Burgess"

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  • - Group A Streptococcus (Strep A) skin infections, like impetigo, can lead to serious conditions such as acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), particularly in Indigenous communities where these rates are significantly higher.
  • - Strep A can spread through three key ways: direct skin contact, surface contamination, and airborne transmission, highlighting the importance of addressing these pathways.
  • - The study suggests various household-level initiatives to reduce Strep A transmission, such as improving washing facilities, enhancing yard space for better social distancing, and increasing home ventilation, with an interactive tool developed to evaluate these initiatives' costs and effectiveness.
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Third parties have increasingly become the focus of research on mistreatment in organizations. Much of that work is grounded in deonance theory, which argues that third parties should react to the perpetrators of mistreatment with anger. Deonance theory is less explicit as to how third parties should react to the victims of mistreatment, though empirical work has pointed to empathy as one potential reaction.

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Circulating angiogenic cells (CAC) influence vascular repair through the secretion of proangiogenic factors and cytokines. While CAC are deficient in patients with diabetes and exercise has a beneficial effect on CACs, the impact of these factors on paracrine secretion from CAC is unknown. We aimed to determine whether the in vitro secretion of selected cytokines and nitric oxide (NO) from CAC is influenced by hyperglycemia and acute exercise.

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Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS) is a disorder of complement dysregulation. Because complement factor B (fB) carries the catalytic site of the alternative pathway convertase we examined it as both a potential candidate gene and modifier in the pathogenesis of aHUS. No factor B gene (BF) mutations were found in 20 patients with aHUS.

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