Natasha Egoroff, Hilary Bloomfield, Wanamula Gondarra, Brando Yambalpal, Terrence Guyula, Demi Forward, Gemma Lyons, Emer O'Connor, Lou Sanderson, Michelle Dowden, Desley Williams, Jessica de Dassel, Pasqualina Coffey, Elizabeth Rrapa Dhurrkay, Veronica Gondarra, Deborah C Holt, Vicki L Krause, Bart J Currie, Kalinda Griffiths, Karen Dempsey, Anna Glynn-Robinson
OBJECTIVES: We describe the public health response to an outbreak of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in a remote Aboriginal community. METHODS: In August 2021, the Northern Territory Rheumatic Heart Disease Control Program identified an outbreak of acute rheumatic fever in a remote Aboriginal community. A public health response was developed using a modified acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis protocol and the National Acute Rheumatic Fever Guideline for Public Health Units...
August 23, 2023: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health