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Infectious diseases

Letters

Public disclosure of health care-associated infections in Australia: quality improvement or parody?

Leon J Worth, Karin A Thursky and Monica A Slavin

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (1): 29 Free

Letters

Influenza vaccination of the egg-allergic individual: 2012 update

Raymond J Mullins and Michael S Gold

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (11): 682

Case reports / Lessons from practice

Two cases of asymptomatic HBV “vaccine breakthrough” infection detected in blood donors screened for HBV DNA

Clive R Seed, Ngaire T Jones, Anne M Pickworth and Wendy R Graham

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (10): 651-652 Free

Research

Gentamicin ototoxicity: a 23-year selected case series of 103 patients

Rebekah M Ahmed, Imelda P Hannigan, Hamish G MacDougall, Raymond C Chan and G Michael Halmagyi

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (11): 701-704 Free

Research

Splenectomy and sepsis

David F M Looke and Naomi J Runnegar

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 587 Free

Research

Sporotrichosis (Sporothrix schenckii infection) in the New South Wales mid-north coast, 2000–2010

Shobini Sivagnanam, Aiveen M Bannan, Sharon C-A Chen and Anna P Ralph

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 588-590 Free

Research

Splenectomy sequelae: an analysis of infectious outcomes among adults in Victoria

Claire Dendle, Vijaya Sundararajan, Tim Spelman, Damien Jolley and Ian Woolley

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 582-586 Free

Letters

Spirochaetes and sunshine: leptospirosis in the aftermath of the Queensland floods

Hugh Wright, Katie Goot and Benjamin Rogers

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 500-502

Letters

Knowledge and access are not enough: HIV risk and prevention among people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Sydney

Augustine D Asante and Henrike Körner

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 502

Snapshot

Extensive cystic hydatid disease

Melanie C Figtree, Matthew R Watts, Robyn Timmins, Ross Smith and Bernard J Hudson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 520

Case reports

Brain abscess due to Propionibacterium propionicum in Eisenmenger syndrome

Anthony M T Chau, Lileane L Xu, Jacob M Fairhall, Joga Chaganti and Brendan J McMullan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 525-526

Letters

Congenital toxoplasmosis over 10 years in a low-incidence population

Jude C Jayamaha, Peter Robertson and William D Rawlinson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (7): 443-444

Letters

Case series of four patients with strongyloides after occupational exposure

Hannah M Soulsby, Saliya Hewagama and Stephen Brady

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (7): 444

Letters

Neurocysticercosis in Australia: still free of autochthonous cases?

Oscar H Del Brutto

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 385

Clinical focus

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: immune restoration disease 20 years on

Martyn A H French

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 318-321 Free

Case reports

First report of human babesiosis in Australia

Sanjaya N Senanayake, Andrea Paparini, Maya Latimer, Kerrie Andriolo, Alexandre J Dasilva, Heather Wilson, Maniphet V Xayavong, Peter J Collignon, Phillip Jeans and Peter J Irwin

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 350-352 Free

Editorials

Infectious diseases in Australia — the next decade

Thomas Gottlieb, Bart J Currie and David F M Looke, on behalf of the Executive Council of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 292-293

Reflections

Infectious diseases in the bigger picture

Warwick H Anderson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 358

Research

Surveillance of infection burden in residential aged care facilities

Ching Jou Lim, Susan C McLellan, Allen C Cheng, Joanne M Culton, Sneha N Parikh, Anton Y Peleg* and David C M Kong*

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 327-331 Free

Editorials

The 20th century re-emergence of epidemic infectious diseases: lessons learned and future prospects

Duane J Gubler

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 293-294

Research

Twenty-six years of enteric fever in Australia: an epidemiological analysis of antibiotic resistance

Robert J Commons, Emma McBryde, Mary Valcanis, Joan Powling, Alan Street and Geoff Hogg

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 332-336 Free

Perspectives

Does antibiotic use in farmed animals pose a risk to human health? – Yes

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 302

Research

Epidemiology, clinical features and diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans in an Australian population

Sarah C Boyd, Eugene Athan, N Deborah Friedman, Andrew Hughes, Aaron Walton, Peter Callan, Anthony McDonald and Daniel P O’Brien

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 341-344 Free

Perspectives

Does antibiotic use in farmed animals pose a risk to human health? — No

Stephen W Page

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 303

Research

Melioidosis at Royal Darwin Hospital in the big 2009–2010 wet season: comparison with the preceding 20 years

Uma Parameswaran, Robert W Baird, Linda M Ward and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 345-348 Free