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Infectious diseases

Editorials

Welcome to 2022: the Year of the Tiger!

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 20-23 Free

Perspectives

Using after‐action reviews of outbreaks to enhance public health responses: lessons for COVID‐19

Craig B Dalton, Martyn D Kirk and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 4-9 Free

Research letter

Second SARS‐CoV‐2 infections twelve months after initial infections in Australia, confirmed by genomic analysis

The Victorian SARS‐CoV‐2 Reinfection Study Group

Med J Aust 2021; 216 (4): n/a-n/a Free

Editorial

Goodbye, 2021: a year of triumphs and failures

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 492-497 Free

Reflection

Living through a pandemic as an MJA editor and a general practitioner

Aajuli Shukla

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 507-508

Christmas competition

What is life? (A 2020–21 Victorian lament)

Andrew Huang

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 544-544 Free

Guideline summary

Care of older people and people requiring palliative care with COVID‐19: guidance from the Australian National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Saskia Cheyne, Richard I Lindley, Natasha Smallwood, Britta Tendal, Michael Chapman, David Fraile Navarro, Phillip D Good, Peter Jenkin, Steve McDonald, Deidre Morgan, Melissa Murano, Tanya Millard, Vasi Naganathan, Velandai Srikanth, Penelope Tuffin, Joshua Vogel, Heath White, Samantha P Chakraborty, Elizabeth Whiting, Leeroy William, Patsy M Yates, Mandy Callary, Julian Elliott and Meera R Agar, for the National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Med J Aust 2021; 216 (4): n/a-n/a Free

Research

Incidence and causes of early unplanned readmission after hospitalisation with peripheral arterial disease in Australia and New Zealand

Vanessa Woelk, Peter Speck, Billingsley Kaambwa, Robert A Fitridge and Isuru Ranasinghe

Med J Aust 2021; 216 (2): n/a-n/a Free

Editorials

Preparing for out‐of‐season influenza epidemics when international travel resumes

Sheena G Sullivan

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 25-26

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: a complication of prolonged immunosuppression for plasma cell myeloma

Sophie C Burn and Akash Kalro

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 454-455

Letters

Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic

Rochelle Wynne, Caleb Ferguson and Patricia M Davidson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 485-485 Free

Letters

Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic

Aidan JC Burrell, Tessa Broadley and Andrew A Udy

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 485-485 Free

Editorials

On entering Australia’s third year with COVID‐19

Stephen J Duckett and Brett Sutton

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 509-510 Free

Letters

Evidence and advocacy in Melbourne maternity care during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Lisa Hui, Clare Whitehead and Susan P Walker

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 433-434 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Violaceous skin lesions on a returned traveller

David WJ Griffin, Jenny SJ Wong, Orla Morrissey and Cristina Mateevici

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 398-400

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Mucormycosis: early treatment is the key to survival

Timothy R Holmes, Jenny L Hepschke, Ian Jacobson and Anthony Maloof

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 401-403

Medical education / Snapshot

Eczema coxsackium

Hsing‐Jou Su and Chun‐Bing Chen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 403-403

Consensus statement summaries

Cancer Australia consensus statement on COVID‐19 and cancer care: embedding high value changes in practice

Vivienne Milch, Rhona Wang, Carolyn Der Vartanian, Melissa Austen, Debra Hector, Cleola Anderiesz and Dorothy Keefe

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 479-484 Free

Guideline summary

Clinical care of children and adolescents with COVID‐19: recommendations from the National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

David Fraile Navarro, Britta Tendal and David Tingay, Clinical care of children and adolescents with COVID-19: recommendations from the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Med J Aust 2021; 216 (5): n/a-n/a Free

Research

The impact of re‐opening the international border on COVID‐19 hospitalisations in Australia: a modelling study

Mark J Hanly, Timothy Churches, Oisin Fitzgerald, Jeffrey J Post, C Raina MacIntyre and Louisa Jorm

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 39-42 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Congenital syphilis on the rise: the importance of testing and recognition

Mandy X Wu, Aoife Moore, Mandy Seel, Sumi Britton, Judith Dean, Janet Sharpe, Garry Inglis and Clare B Nourse

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 345-346.e1

Research letters

The readability of official public health information on COVID‐19

Olivia A Mac, Danielle M Muscat, Julie Ayre, Pinika Patel and Kirsten J McCaffery

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 373-375 Free

Research

Drivers of the summer influenza epidemic in New South Wales, 2018–19

Celeste K Marsh, Vicky Sheppeard, Sean Tobin, Robin Gilmour and Ross M Andrews

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 33-38 Free

Research

Adding saliva testing to oropharyngeal and deep nasal swab testing increases PCR detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in primary care and children

Jane Oliver, Shidan Tosif, Lai‐yang Lee, Anna‐Maria Costa, Chelsea Bartel, Katherine Last, Vanessa Clifford, Andrew Daley, Nicole Allard, Catherine Orr, Ashley Nind, Karyn Alexander, Niamh Meagher, Michelle Sait, Susan A Ballard, Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, Deborah A Williamson, Nigel W Crawford and Katherine B Gibney

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 273-278 Free

Letters

A hospital‐wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID‐19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field

Diana Egerton-Warburton, Lisa Kuhn and Daphne Flynn

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 286-286.e1 Free