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  6. He, V.Y., Su, J.Y., Guthridge, S., Malvaso, C., Howard, D., Williams, T. & Leach, A.J. (2019). Hearing and justice: The link between hearing impairment in early childhood and youth offending in Aboriginal children living in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia. Health Justice, 7(1), 16. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-8456-8.
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  10. Jervis-Bardy, J., Leong, L.E., Marri, S., Smith, R.J., Choo, J.M., Smith-Vaughan, H.C., . . . Marsh, R.L. (2015). Deriving accurate microbiota profiles from human samples with low bacterial content through post-sequencing processing of Illumina MiSeq data. Microbiome, 3, 19. doi:10.1186/s40168-015-0083-8.
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  13. Smith-Vaughan, H.C., Beissbarth, J., Bowman, J., Hare, K.M., Price, E.P., Pickering, J., Lehmann, D., Chang, A.B., Morris, P.S., Marsh, R.L. & Leach, A.J. (2016). Geographic consistency in dominant, non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae genotypes colonising four distinct Australian paediatric groups: a cohort study. Pneumonia (Nathan), 8, 13. doi: 10.1186/s41479-016-0013-y.
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