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Lucy L. Furfaro
Researcher at University of Western Australia
Publications - 33
Citations - 645
Lucy L. Furfaro is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Betamethasone. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 21 publications receiving 383 citations. Previous affiliations of Lucy L. Furfaro include King Edward Memorial Hospital.
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Bacteriophage Therapy: Clinical Trials and Regulatory Hurdles.
TL;DR: This review discusses the multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens of highest critical priority and summarizes the current state-of-the-art in phage therapy targeting these organisms.
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Perinatal Streptococcus agalactiae Epidemiology and Surveillance Targets.
TL;DR: The main schemes used for GBS epidemiology are explored and the targets for epidemiological surveillance are detailed, which is vital for monitoring and therapeutics, if sufficient detail can be extracted.
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Low-dose betamethasone-acetate for fetal lung maturation in preterm sheep.
Augusto F. Schmidt,Matthew W. Kemp,Judith Rittenschober-Böhm,Paranthaman S. Kannan,Haruo Usuda,Masatoshi Saito,Lucy L. Furfaro,Shimpei Watanabe,Sarah J. Stock,Boris W. Kramer,John P. Newnham,Suhas G. Kallapur,Alan H. Jobe +12 more
TL;DR: A single dose of betamethasone‐acetate results in similar fetal lung maturation as the 2‐dose clinical formulation of bet amethas one‐phosphate+betameth asone‐ acetate with decreased fetal exposure to betamETHasone.
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Ureaplasma parvum genotype, combined vaginal colonisation with Candida albicans, and spontaneous preterm birth in an Australian cohort of pregnant women
Matthew S. Payne,Demelza J. Ireland,Rory Watts,Elizabeth Nathan,Lucy L. Furfaro,Matthew W. Kemp,Jeffrey A. Keelan,John P. Newnham +7 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that the presence of different species and serovars of Ureaplasma spp.
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Applications for Bacteriophage Therapy during Pregnancy and the Perinatal Period.
TL;DR: This review aims to provide a thorough overview of studies of this nature and discuss the feasibility of bacteriophage use during pregnancy to treat and/or prevent bacterial infections.