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Infectious diseases

Perspectives

An urgent need for antimicrobial stewardship in Indigenous rural and remote primary health care

Asha C Bowen, Kathryn Daveson, Lorraine Anderson and Steven YC Tong

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 9-11.e1 Free

Research letter

Reduced VRE and MRSA colonisation and infection following sustained reduction in broad spectrum antibiotic use in a large tertiary hospital

John K Ferguson, Sally A Munnoch, Kristi Kozierowski, Simon Chiu and Christopher Oldmeadow

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): n/a-n/a Free

Research

HPV vaccination coverage and course completion rates for Indigenous Australian adolescents, 2015

Julia ML Brotherton, Karen L Winch, Genevieve Chappell, Carolyn Banks, Dennis Meijer, Sonya Ennis, Karen Peterson, Rosalind Webby and Lisa J Whop

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 31-36 Free

Research

Routine cervical screening by primary HPV testing: early findings in the renewed National Cervical Screening Program

Dorothy A Machalek, Jennifer M Roberts, Suzanne M Garland, Julia Thurloe, Adele Richards, Ian Chambers, Terri Sivertsen and Annabelle Farnsworth

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): n/a-n/a Free

Editorials

Protecting pregnant women and their newborn from life‐threatening infections

Helen S Marshall and Gayatri Amirthalingam

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 445-446

Letters

Call for a national sore throat guideline

Adrian J Tarca, Robert M Hand and Rosemary Wyber

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 477-477.e1

Research

Respiratory syncytial virus‐associated hospitalisations in Australia, 2006–2015

Gemma L Saravanos, Meru Sheel, Nusrat Homaira, Aditi Dey, Edward Brown, Han Wang, Kristine Macartney and Nicholas J Wood

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 447-453 Free

Letters

Pre‐conception care: an important yet underutilised preventive care strategy

Antonia Shand, Pamela Palasanthiran and William D Rawlinson

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 429-429.e1

Letters

Pre‐conception care: an important yet underutilised preventive care strategy

Deborah J Bateson and Kirsten I Black

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 430-430.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Mycobacterial mimicry in a man from Myanmar

David WJ Griffin, G Khai Lin Huang, Philippe Lachapelle, Steven YC Tong and Siddhartha Mahanty

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (8): 349-351.e1

Perspectives

Early success with room for improvement: influenza vaccination of young Australian children

Frank H Beard, Alexandra J Hendry and Kristine Macartney

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (11): 484-486.e1

Research

Acute kidney injury in Indigenous Australians in the Kimberley: age distribution and associated diagnoses

Joseph V Mohan, David N Atkinson, Johan B Rosman and Emma K Griffiths

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 19-23 Free

Research

Influenza and pertussis vaccination of women during pregnancy in Victoria, 2015–2017

Stacey L Rowe, Kirsten P Perrett, Rosemary Morey, Nicola Stephens, Benjamin C Cowie, Terry M Nolan, Karin Leder, Helen Pitcher, Brett Sutton and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 454-462 Free

Letters

National healthy skin guidelines for Indigenous Australians: the impact of dog health programs requires evaluation

Rosalie Schultz

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 334-334.e1 Free

Perspectives

The importance of public health genomics for ensuring health security for Australia

Deborah A Williamson, Martyn D Kirk, Vitali Sintchenko and Benjamin P Howden

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 295-297.e1

Editorials

Q fever: more common than we think, and what this means for prevention

Joshua R Francis and Jenny M Robson

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 305-306

Research letter

Diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease: be alert to the possibility of negative initial PCR results

Daniel P O'Brien, Maria Globan, Janet M Fyfe, Caroline J Lavender, Adrian Murrie, Damian Flanagan, Peter Meggyesy, Jonathan T Priestley and David Leslie

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 416-416 Free

Editorials

Reducing the gap between the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection

Kasha P Singh and Sharon R Lewin

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6): 261-262

Narrative reviews

Pre‐exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention during pregnancy and lactation: forget not the women and children

Lisa Horgan, Christopher C Blyth, Asha C Bowen, David A Nolan and Andrew P McLean‐Tooke

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6): 281-284

Letters

Intercontinental translocation of latent multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis to Australia demonstrated by whole genome sequencing

Sanjay S Gautam, Greg Haug, Louise A Cooley, Micheál Mac Aogáin and Ronan F O'Toole

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 236

Research

Seroprevalence of Q fever among metropolitan and non‐metropolitan blood donors in New South Wales and Queensland, 2014–2015

Heather F Gidding, Helen M Faddy, David N Durrheim, Stephen R Graves, Chelsea Nguyen, Penny Hutchinson, Peter Massey and Nicholas Wood

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 309-315 Free

Letters

Sepsis incidence and mortality are underestimated in Australian intensive care unit administrative data

Jake C Valentine, Gabrielle Haeusler, Leon Worth and Karin Thursky

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (4): 188

Letters

Sepsis incidence and mortality are underestimated in Australian intensive care unit administrative data

David Pilcher, Sue Huckson and Peter Hicks

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (4): 188-189

Research letters

Silent but deadly: patients with enterococcal bacteraemia should be assessed for colorectal neoplasia

Eugene Athan, Ivana Cabiltes, Sarah Coghill and Steven J Bowe

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 86 Free

Research letters

Increased incidence of community‐associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in Victoria and Western Australia, 2011–2016

Nabeel Imam, Simone Tempone, Paul K Armstrong, Rebecca McCann, Sandra Johnson, Leon J Worth and Michael J Richards

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 87-88 Free