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Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years globally, killing 525 000 annually. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter Aboriginal) children suffer a high burden of disease.

Pediculosis capitis is a worldwide prevalent public health issue, mostly involving children. Resistance has been increasingly identified with conventional treatments such as permethrin or malathion. We aimed to evaluate the therapeutic potential of plant-based therapies for pediculosis capitis. PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, EmCare, Web of Science, Cochrane, and ScienceDirect were searched for studies.

The evidence derived from the review will be used to inform the development of guidelines for the management of skin infections in resource-limited settings

Treatment success for scabies co-infection was lower than for impetigo overall, with a higher success seen in the co-trimoxazole group than benzylpenicillin

Given the ongoing mortality and morbidity from GAS infections, we must address more effectively the treatment and prevention of GAS impetigo and pharyngitis

There was evidence of extensive transmission of group A Streptococcus both within households and across the community

This paper examines the use of a new antibiotic to treat diarrhoea cause by Cryptosporidium infection in Australian Indigenous children.

We describe the development and evaluation of a protocol for digital image collection by the non-professional photographer in a remote setting research trial

Scabies and impetigo are common in Timor-Leste, with very high prevalence of scabies in the rural district of Ermera

Scabies and impetigo infections are under-recognised and hence under-treated by clinicians