John Malcolm
Bay of Plenty District Health Board, New Zealand
Biography
John Malcolm FRACP Consultant Paediatrician, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty District Health Board, New Zealand, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer Paediatrics, Universities of Auckland and Otago, Community Paediatrics interests include Acute Rheumatic Fever epidemiology Rheumatic Heart Disease followup and ARF prevention programmes. He undertook the present study with indigenous Maori health provider Ngati Awa and Eastern Bay Primary Health Alliance to establish if and how BlisK12 probiotic decreases pharyngeal GAS carriage and sore throats, to increase the effi cacy of school programmes particularly for the one third of children getting ARF, who do not recollect a preceeding GAS sore throat.