Antibiotics for the primary prevention of acute rheumatic fever: a meta-analysis

KA Robertson, JA Volmink, BM Mayosi - BMC cardiovascular disorders, 2005 - Springer
Background Rheumatic fever continues to put a significant burden on the health of low socio-
economic populations in low and middle-income countries despite the near disappearance …

A review of factors controlling Southern Hemisphere treelines and the implications of climate change on future treeline dynamics

A Hansson, J Shulmeister, P Dargusch, G Hill - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies investigating treelines in the Southern Hemisphere are underrepresented in the
global literature, with a strong bias towards Northern Hemisphere treelines. Treelines in the …

Penicillin for acute sore throat: randomised double blind trial of seven days versus three days treatment or placebo in adults

S Zwart, APE Sachs, GJHM Ruijs, JW Gubbels… - Bmj, 2000 - bmj.com
Objective: To assess whether treatment with penicillin for three days and the traditional
treatment for seven days were equally as effective at accelerating resolution of symptoms in …

Paleolimnologically inferred eutrophication of a shallow, tropical, urban reservoir in southeast Brazil

S Costa-Böddeker, H Bennion, TA de Jesus… - Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
We studied the eutrophication history of a tropical shallow reservoir in the São Paulo
metropolitan region, southeast Brazil. We analyzed grain size, geochemistry, diatom …

The Holocene treeline in the northern Andes (Ecuador): first evidence from soil charcoal

G Di Pasquale, M Marziano, S Impagliazzo… - Palaeogeography …, 2008 - Elsevier
Indications for the speed and timing of past altitudinal treeline shifts are often contradictory.
Partly, this may be due to interpretation difficulties of pollen records, which are generally …

Diatom-based inference of Asian monsoon precipitation from a volcanic lake in southwest China for the last 18.5 ka

Y Li, X Chen, X Xiao, H Zhang, B Xue, J Shen… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Diatom in the volcanic lake provides proxy evidence for pH changes that are characterized
by variations in the percentage of acidophilous diatom species. The information regarding …

A 370,000-year record of vegetation and fire history around Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru)

JA Hanselman, MB Bush, WD Gosling, A Collins… - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen and charcoal analyses of sediments from Lake Titicaca, Peru/Bolivia, provide a
record of palaeoclimatic variation spanning four full glacial cycles. Pollen, aquatic …

Contrasting simulated past and future responses of the Amazonian forest to atmospheric change

SA Cowling, RA Betts, PM Cox… - … of the Royal …, 2004 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Modelling simulations of palaeoclimate and past vegetation form and function can contribute
to global change research by constraining predictions of potential earth system responses to …

Novel responses of diatoms in neotropical mountain lakes to indigenous and post-European occupation

MI Velez, J Salgado, M Brenner, H Hooghiemstra… - Anthropocene, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract How Indigenous peoples and European settlers transformed terrestrial ecosystems
in the Americas is well evidenced in the literature, but far less is known about how aquatic …

Synchronous interhemispheric Holocene climate trends in the tropical Andes

PJ Polissar, MB Abbott, AP Wolfe… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Holocene variations of tropical moisture balance have been ascribed to orbitally forced
changes in solar insolation. If this model is correct, millennial-scale climate evolution should …