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Infectious diseases

Letter to the editor

The seroprevalence of antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus in five New South Wales towns at high risk of infection, 2022

Md Saiful Islam and Holly Seale

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 447-448

Research letter

An outbreak of reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME) after Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in Sydney, 2024: retrospective case series

Joseph Joseph, Kelvin Truong, Artiene Tatian and Orli Wargon

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 434-435 Free

Research letter

A rise in Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections in Victoria in late 2023 and early 2024 detected at two major testing laboratories

Maryza Graham, Thomas Tran, Changxu Zhang, Michelle Sam, Andrew Daley, Kathy Jackson and Chuan Kok Lim

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 436-437 Free

Letter to the editor

Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in Australia: current and future perspectives

Samuel Hui

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): 397-397 Free

Research

Lessons learnt from the first two SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in six remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective epidemiological review

Allison Hempenstall, Barbara Telfer, Sean Cowley, Shalomie Shadrach, Caroline Taunton, Jay Short, Nicolas Smoll, Roy Rasalam, Oscar Whitehead, Peter Roach, Karen Koko, Josh Stafford, Rittia Matysek, Renarta Whitcombe, Gulam Khandaker, Jason King, Nishila Moodley, Maree Finney, Rica Lacey, Steven Donohue, Richard Gair and Katie Panaretto

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 426-433 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Smouldering COVID‐19 XBB.1.5. subvariant pneumonitis: a case report

Sara Davison, Tanmay Kanitkar, Dimitrios Menouhos, Thomas Ewin, Catherine S Marshall, Peter Boan and Sonja Janson

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 244-245 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A case of visceral leishmaniasis masquerading as autoimmune hepatitis

Vinny Ea, Brigitte Papa and Rimma Goldberg

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (6): 299-301 Free

Editorial

The resurgence of congenital syphilis in Australia: novel approaches and sustained, effective public health efforts are required

Stephanie Bond and Marcus Y Chen

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 195-196 Free

Research

The public health and economic burden of long COVID in Australia, 2022–24: a modelling study

Valentina Costantino, Quentin Grafton, Tom Kompas, Long Chu, Damian Honeyman, Adriana Notaras and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 217-223 Free

Research letter

Tetanus, pertussis, and diphtheria vaccination coverage in older adults, Australia, 2023: analysis of Australian Immunisation Register data

Alexandra J Hendry, Helen E Quinn, Kristine Macartney and Frank H Beard

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 224-225 Free

Letter to the editor / Comment

The Alfred Health post‐COVID‐19 service, Melbourne, 2020–2022: an observational cohort study

Jeremy L Millar

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 226-226 Free

Letter to the editor / Reply

The Alfred Health post‐COVID‐19 service, Melbourne, 2020–2022: an observational cohort study

Anne Holland and Simone Dal Corso

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 226-226 Free

Perspective

The challenges of malaria elimination in the Asia–Pacific region

Freya JI Fowkes, Leanne J Robinson, Julie A Simpson, Kamala Thriemer, Moses Laman and Win Han Oo

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 182-185 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Severe tetanus infections across New South Wales in 2023

Romeo Torres, Ernest Tee, Sophie Harper, Leemin Chan, John Ng and Andie Lee

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 188-191

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Treatment‐resistant tinea caused by Trichophyton indotineae in Australia

Kyra YL Chua, Catriona L Halliday, Sharon C‐A Chen, Sonia Koning, Jedrzej Pawlikowski, Philipp du Cros and Tony M Korman

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 192-194 Free

Research

Outcomes for people admitted to Australian and New Zealand intensive care units with primary, exacerbating, or incidental SARS‐CoV‐2 infections, 2022–23: a retrospective analysis of ANZICS data

Alastair Brown, Andrew Udy, Martyn Kirk, Sonya Bennett, Shaila Chavan, Sue Huckson and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 209-216 Free

Research

Notification rates for syphilis in women of reproductive age and congenital syphilis in Australia, 2011–2021: a retrospective cohort analysis of national notifications data

Belinda Hengel, Hamish McManus, Robert Monaghan, Donna B Mak, Amy Bright, Ximena Tolosa, Kellie Mitchell, Lorraine Anderson, Jackie R Thomas, Nathan Ryder, Louise Causer, Rebecca J Guy and Skye McGregor

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 201-208 Free

Perspective

National pharmacovigilance of seasonal influenza vaccines in Australia

Megan O'Moore, Belinda Jones, Megan Hickie, Catherine Glover, Lucy Deng, Yuanfei Huang, Michael Dymock, Evelyn Tay, Julie A Marsh and Nicholas Wood

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 178-181 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Group A streptococcal colitis: an under‐recognised entity?

Samuel W L‐W Baumgart, Suzanne English, Tony Sebastian, Sarika Suresh and Timothy J Gray

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 186-187 Free

Research

The seroprevalence of antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus in five New South Wales towns at high risk of infection, 2022: a cross‐sectional serosurvey

Zoe Baldwin, Linda Hueston, April Roberts‐Witteveen, Priscilla Stanley, Meru Sheel, Noni Winkler, Archana Koirala, Kristine Macartney, Jennifer Case, Kirsty Hope and Keira M Glasgow

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 561-565 Free

Research

Serosurvey for Japanese encephalitis virus antibodies following an outbreak in an immunologically naïve population, Victoria, 2022: a cross‐sectional study

Madeleine J Marsland, Tilda N Thomson, Helen M O'Brien, Elizabeth Peach, Jody Bellette, Nicole Humphreys, Clare‐Anne McKeon, William Cross, Michael A Moso, Mitchell Batty, Suellen Nicholson, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Chuan Kok Lim, Deborah A Williamson, Noni Winkler, Archana Koirala, Kristine Macartney, Anna Glynn‐Robinson, Tony Stewart, Corinna Minko, Kathryn J Snow, Jim Black and N Deborah Friedman

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 566-572 Free

Research letter

Emergency department presentations in Queensland by First Nations people, remote residents, and young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020: interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben B Keijzers, Dinesh Palipana, John Gerrard and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 579-581 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Botulism: a mimic for brainstem strokes and Miller Fisher syndrome

Chris Kwan, Anthony Elias, Katherine Todd, Celia Bradford, Joshua Smith, Indira Datta, Jimmy Ng, Katie Kelleway, Jessica Butler, Sarah Webb and Michal Lubomski

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 554-556 Free

Editorial

Japanese encephalitis virus in Australia: an ecological and epidemiological enigma

John S Mackenzie and David W Smith

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 559-560 Free

Research letter

Reduced numbers of elective joint replacement procedures in Australia during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020–2022: a registry data analysis study

Christopher J Wall, Christopher J Vertullo, David RJ Gill, Richard S Page, Carl Holder and Paul N Smith

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 169-170 Free