Infectious diseases

Reflections 10 Dec 2012

Climate canaries

Yvonne E Cossart

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (11): 658

Research 19 Nov 2012

Crying wolf? Impact of the H1N1 2009 influenza pandemic on anticipated public response to a future pandemic

Melanie R Taylor, Garry J Stevens, Kingsley E Agho, Sheree A Kable and Beverley Raphael

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (10): 561-564 Free

Research 19 Nov 2012

Guillain-Barré syndrome following pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A immunisation in Victoria: a self-controlled case series

Nigel W Crawford, Allen Cheng, Nick Andrews, Patrick G Charles, Hazel J Clothier, Bruce Day, Timothy Day, Peter Gates, Richard Macdonell, Les Roberts, Victoria Rodriguez-Casero, Tissa Wijeratne and Lynette Kiers

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (10): 574-578 Free

Perspectives 19 Nov 2012

Learning from journalists’ experiences of the H1N1 pandemic

Melissa A Sweet, Kate E Holland and R Warwick Blood

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (10): 544-545

Letters 19 Nov 2012

Influenza vaccination uptake in an Australian hospital: time to make it mandatory for health care workers?

Vivian K Y Leung, Susan E Harper and Monica A Slavin

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (10): 552

Letters 5 Nov 2012

Liver cancer is the fastest increasing cause of cancer death in Australians

Jennifer H MacLachlan and Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (9): 492-493

Research 15 Oct 2012

Risk of active tuberculosis in immigrants: effects of age, region of origin and time since arrival in a low-exposure setting

Emma S McBryde and Justin T Denholm

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (8): 458-461 Free

Case reports / Lessons from practice 15 Oct 2012

Listeria monocytogenes infection in Crohn’s disease treated with adalimumab

Kaspar J Willson, Antony Jacob, Mohit P Shetti, Rajesh Bhatia, Kwang Yee and William Osler

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (8): 466-467

Research 15 Oct 2012

Changes in hospitalisations for acute gastroenteritis in Australia after the national rotavirus vaccination program

Aditi Dey, Han Wang, Robert Menzies and Kristine Macartney

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (8): 453-457 Free

Letters 17 Sep 2012

The use of key performance indicators to benchmark individual clinic performance in managing a complex chronic infectious disease

Mark D Kelly, Jennifer K Broom and Sharon Young

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 330-331

Letters 17 Sep 2012

Screening with nucleic acid amplification tests for gonorrhoea in men who have sex with men

Miranda Sherley, Karina J Kennedy and Sarah J Martin

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 332

Case reports 17 Sep 2012

Chromoblastomycosis in a Solomon Islander

James Knox and Caroline Marshall

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 350 Free

Reflections 17 Sep 2012

The sound of silence: global health challenges from the front

James D Smith

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 351 Free

Letters 3 Sep 2012

The Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction in a patient with leptospirosis: a foreseeable problem in managing spirochaete infections

Ryan Markham, Andrew Slack and John Gerrard

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 276-277

Research 3 Sep 2012

Online chlamydia testing: an innovative approach that appeals to young people

Kellie S H Kwan, Edwina A Jachimowicz, Lisa Bastian, Lewis Marshall and Donna B Mak

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 287-290 Free

Letters 20 Aug 2012

Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates

M Lindsay Grayson and Philip L Russo

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 212-214

Letters 20 Aug 2012

Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates

Elliott G Playford, David McDougall and Mary-Louise McLaws

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 214

Letters 20 Aug 2012

Hospitalisation with confirmed influenza in a sentinel surveillance system in 2010 and 2011

Allen C Cheng, on behalf of the FluCAN Investigators

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 217

Clinical focus 20 Aug 2012

Australian Diabetes Foot Network: management of diabetes-related foot ulceration — a clinical update

Shan M Bergin, Joel M Gurr, Bernard P Allard, Emma L Holland, Mark W Horsley, Maarten C Kamp, Peter A Lazzarini, Vanessa L Nube, Ashim K Sinha, Jason T Warnock, Jan B Alford and Paul R Wraight

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 226-229 Free

Letters 6 Aug 2012

Testing the golden rules of infectious diseases: staphylococcal bacteriuria is predictive of staphylococcal bacteraemia

Janine M Trevillyan and Denis Spelman

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 149-150

Letters 6 Aug 2012

Opportunistic serological surveillance for Murray Valley encephalitis virus in Victoria, February–May 2011

Joseph S Doyle, Suellen Nicholson, Jennifer A Leydon, Rodney J Moran and Michael G Catton

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 150

Research 6 Aug 2012

A multicentre evaluation of two intensive care unit triage protocols for use in an influenza pandemic

Winston K Cheung, John Myburgh, Ian M Seppelt, Michael J Parr, Nikki Blackwell, Shannon DeMonte, Kalpesh Gandhi, Larissa Hoyling, Priya Nair, Melissa Passer, Claire Reynolds, Nicholas M Saunders, Manoj K Saxena and Govindasamy Thanakrishnan, on behalf of the Influenza Pandemic ICU Triage (iPIT) Study Investigators

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 178-181 Free

Letters 16 Jul 2012