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Infectious diseases

Perspectives

The landscape of COVID‐19 trials in Australia

Anna Lene Seidler, Mason Aberoumand, Jonathan G Williams, Aidan Tan, Kylie E Hunter and Angela Webster

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 58-61.e1 Free

Research letters

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on routine vaccinations in Victoria

Brynley P Hull, Alexandra J Hendry, Aditi Dey, Kerin Bryant, Catherine Radkowski, Stephen Pellissier, Kristine Macartney and Frank H Beard

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 83-84 Free

Letters

Time to address the neglected burden of group A Streptococcus

Jeffrey W Cannon, Julie Bennett, Michael G Baker and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 94-94.e1

Letters

The probability of the 6‐week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Bradley R Crammond and Vishaal Kishore

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 95-95.e1 Free

Perspectives

Are COVID‐19‐safe Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics really possible?

Craig B Dalton and Joanne Taylor

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 54-55.e1 Free

Letters

The probability of the 6‐week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Jason Thompson, Natalie Carvalho and Tony Blakely

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 96-96.e1 Free

Perspectives

Australia needs a prioritised national research strategy for clinical trials in a pandemic: lessons learned from COVID‐19

Asha C Bowen, Steven YC Tong and Joshua S Davis

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 56-58.e1 Free

Research letters

Re‐defining the dengue‐receptive area of Queensland after the 2019 dengue outbreak in Rockhampton

Jacina Walker, Alyssa Pyke, Paul Florian, Rachael M Rodney Harris and Gulam Khandaker

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 182-182 Free

Research

Increasing incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Western Australia, particularly among Indigenous people

Cameron M Wright, Rachael Moorin, Glenn Pearson, John R Dyer, Jonathan R Carapetis and Laurens Manning

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 36-41 Free

Research letter

Limited clinical value of early repeat RT‐PCR testing for SARS‐CoV‐2

Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond and Deborah A Williamson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 42-43 Free

Perspectives

Australia must act to prevent airborne transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Zoë Hyde, David Berger and Andrew Miller

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 7-9.e1 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

The first known case of vaccine‐induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia in Australia

Jay Hocking, Sanjeev D Chunilal, Vivien M Chen, Tim Brighton, James Nguyen, Jocelyn Tan, Stephen B Ting and Huyen Tran

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 19-20.e1 Free

Ethics and law

Medico‐legal considerations of mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination for high risk workers

Dev AS Kevat, Danielle CA Panaccio, Sam C Pang, Jessica M Dean, Caitlin C Farmer and Patrick D Mahar

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 22-24.e1 Free

Editorials

An update on the burden of group A streptococcal diseases in Australia and vaccine development

Jeffrey W Cannon and Asha C Bowen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 27-28

Reflection

Motherhood and medicine in the time of COVID‐19

Jacqueline Fleetwood

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 508-509.e1 Free

Medical history

Budgies and bugs: our homegrown contribution to pandemics

Robert M Kaplan

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 509-510.e1

Perspectives

Evaluating the safety and effectiveness of novel personal protective equipment during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Mathilde R Desselle, Marianne Kirrane, Ian T Chao, Jasamine Coles Black, Maria A Woodruff, Jason Chuen and Clair Sullivan

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 496-499.e1 Free

Perspectives

Surveillance for SARS‐CoV‐2 variants of concern in the Australian context

Patiyan Andersson, Norelle L Sherry and Benjamin P Howden

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 500-502.e1 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Ureaplasma urealyticum septic oligoarthritis in a patient with severe secondary hypogammaglobulinaemia

Peter Bradhurst, Carlos El‐Haddad, John Ng and Nicolás Urriola

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 506-507.e1

Research letter

Remote buddy monitoring of the donning and doffing of personal protective equipment

Reny Segal, William PL Bradley, Daryl Williams, Romulo Correa de Araujo Nunes and Irene Ng

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 526-527 Free

Research letters

Emergency department presentations by residents of Sydney quarantine hotels during the COVID‐19 outbreak

Michael Dinh, Owen Hutchings, Kendall Bein, James Shaw, Aditi Raut, Saartje Berendsen Russell, Dianna Jagers, Rajip Thapa, Gregory Fox, James Edwards, Timothy Wand and Warwick Britton

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 473-474 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

COVID‐19 swab‐related skull base injury

Sandeep G Mistry, Wallace Walker, James Earnshaw and Anders Cervin

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 457-459.e1 Free

Perspectives

Influenza disease and vaccination in children in Australia

Samantha J Carlson, Christopher C Blyth, Frank H Beard, Alexandra J Hendry, Allen C Cheng, Helen E Quinn, Julie Leask and Kristine Macartney

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 64-67.e1

Research letters

Clinical course and care requirements during the 2020 COVID‐19 epidemic in South Australia

Daniel Haustead, Dylan J Toh, Benjamin Reddi, Emily Kirkpatrick, Emily Rowe, Pamela Outhwaite, Elizabett Harnack, Michael Cusack and Megan Brooks

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 471-473 Free

Ethics and law

Transparent triage policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a critical part of medico‐legal risk management for clinicians

Eliana Close, Lindy Willmott, Tina Cockburn, Simon Young, Will Cairns and Ben P White

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 71-74.e1 Free