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Infectious diseases

2018

Research

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

Manon Heldens, Marinelle Schout, Naomi E Hammond, Frances Bass, Anthony Delaney and Simon R Finfer

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (6): 255-260 Free

Narrative review

Management of bronchiectasis in adults

Simone K Visser, Peter Bye and Lucy Morgan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 177-183

Letters

An era of untreatable gonorrhoea?

Brett Sutton and Mihaela Ivan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 188

Letters

Tackling the worsening epidemic of Buruli ulcer in Australia in an information void: time for an urgent scientific response

Petra Zimmermann, Adam Finn and Nigel Curtis

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 142

Perspectives

New enhanced influenza vaccines for older Australians: what promise do they hold?

Sarah L Sheridan, Cyra Patel, Kristine Macartney and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 110-112

Letters

Azithromycin for Salmonella infection: don’t presume it works

Alan J Rogers, Gar-hing A Lee and Peter Boan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 98

Perspectives

Priorities for preventing a concentrated HIV epidemic among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

James S Ward, Karen Hawke and Rebecca J Guy

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (1): 56 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Fulminant meningococcal sepsis due to non-groupable Neisseria meningitidis in a patient receiving eculizumab

Victoria Hall, Rekha Pai Mangalore, Simon He, Kerrie Stevens, Jason A Trubiano, Natasha E Holmes, Benjamin P Howden and Jason C Kwong

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 478-479

Letters

Foreign tick smuggling rickettsia evades Australian border control

Sadid F Khan, Mythili Tadepalli, John Stenos, Stephen R Graves and Tony M Korman

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 505

Perspectives

How antibiotic allergy labels may be harming our most vulnerable patients

Jason A Trubiano, M Lindsay Grayson, Karin A Thursky, Elizabeth J Phillips and Monica A Slavin

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 469-470

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Pulmonary extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Melbourne: local control of a global health challenge

Adrian R Tramontana, David E Leslie, Aine Nolan, Maria Globan, Janet M Fyfe, Justin T Denholm and Stephen D Guy

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (10): 428-429

Narrative review

Parechovirus: an important emerging infection in young infants

Philip N Britton, Cheryl A Jones, Kristine Macartney and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (8): 365-369

Perspectives

Tackling the worsening epidemic of Buruli ulcer in Australia in an information void: time for an urgent scientific response

Daniel P O'Brien, Eugene Athan, Kim Blasdell and Paul De Barro

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (7): 287-289

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A severe case of Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) osteomyelitis requiring a below-knee amputation

Michael J Loftus, Nicola Kettleton-Butler, Denton Wade, R Michael Whitby and Paul DR Johnson

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (7): 290-291

Letters

Eradicating hepatitis C from the New South Wales prison system

James Blogg, James Wood, Colette McGrath and Camilla Lobo

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (6): 276

Medical education / Snapshot

Gas gangrene of the eye: endogenous Clostridium perfringens endophthalmitis

Ali S Haider, Harkiran Manku and Peter McCluskey

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (2): 64

Letters

Emerging infectious disease agents and blood safety in Australia: spotlight on Zika virus

Viroj Wiwanitkit

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (2): 96

Letters

Emerging infectious disease agents and blood safety in Australia: spotlight on Zika virus

Philip Kiely, Erica M Wood and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (2): 96

2017

Christmas competition / Third place

Towards a theoretically informed policy against a rakghoul plague outbreak

Dimitrios-Georgios Kontopoulos, Theano Kontopoulou, Hsi-Cheng Ho and Bernardo García-Carreras

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (11): 490-494 Free

Book/media/app reviews

Understanding the function of health protection activities within public health practice

Kudzai N Kanhutu

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (11): 478

Book/media/app reviews

Commentaries and clinical tips for assessing respiratory diseases

David J Barnes

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (10): 424

Letters

Vaccine myopia: adult vaccination also needs attention

Andrew W Taylor-Robinson

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 406

Editorials

Trends in meningococcal disease: challenges for vaccine control when disease is rare

Andrew J Pollard and Hannah Christensen

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 380-381

Letters

Vaccine myopia: adult vaccination also needs attention

Robert I Menzies, Jenny Royle and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 407

Research

Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal B disease in Australia, 1999–2015: priority populations for vaccination

Brett N Archer, Clayton K Chiu, Sanjay H Jayasinghe, Peter C Richmond, Jodie McVernon, Monica M Lahra, Ross M Andrews and Peter B McIntyre, on behalf of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) Meningococcal Working Party

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 382-387 Free