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Infectious diseases

Editorials

MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?

Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 5-7

Letters

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?

Keryn J Christiansen

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 62-63

Viewpoint

Influenza surveillance in Australia: we need to do more than count

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Kristina A Grant, Simon H Williams, Cheryl Bletchly, Michael G Catton, David W Smith and Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 43-45 Free

Letters

Managing outbreaks of viral respiratory infection in aged care facilities — challenges and difficulties during the first pandemic wave

Gulam Khandaker, Bridget Doyle, Dominic E Dwyer and Robert Booy

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 722

Letters

A pandemic response to a disease of predominantly seasonal intensity

Rodney C Givney

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 722-723

Letters

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza, pregnancy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Susan A Welch, Leone N Snowden and Hergen Buscher

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 668

Defining the gap

Two nations: racial disparities in bloodstream infections recorded at Alice Springs Hospital, central Australia, 2001–2005

Lloyd J Einsiedel and Richard J Woodman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 567-571 Free

At the frontline

Hospitalisation of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory for lower respiratory illness in the first year of life

Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Paul J Torzillo and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 586-590 Free

Pandemic influenza

Disproportionate impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on Indigenous people in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory

Shaun M Flint, Joshua S Davis, Jiunn-Yih Su, Erin P Oliver-Landry, Benjamin A Rogers, Aaron Goldstein, Jane H Thomas, Uma Parameswaran, Colin Bigham, Kevin Freeman, Paul Goldrick and Steven Y C Tong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 617-622 Free

Pandemic influenza

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in an urban Aboriginal medical service

Ana Herceg, Peter G Sharp, Christine G Arthur and Julie A Tongs

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 623 Free

Correction

Early evidence for direct and indirect effects of the infant rotavirus vaccine program in Queensland

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Lisa Hall, Frances A Birrell, Karen V Peterson, Christine E Selvey, Theo P Sloots, Michael D Nissen and Keith Grimwood

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 525 Free

Research

Establishment of a successful assessment and treatment service for Australian prison inmates with chronic hepatitis C

Leng Boonwaat, Paul S Haber, Michael H Levy and Andrew R Lloyd

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 496-500 Free

Letters

Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?

David W Smith, David J Speers and Rodney A Bowman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 541-542

Letters

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

William B Grant

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Letters

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

Joshua S Davis, Allen C Cheng, Bart J Currie and Nicholas M Anstey

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania donovani in a patient with advanced HIV infection

Samuel C Hume, Craig A Aboltins, Karin A Thursky, John R Daffy and Peter A Stanley

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 474-475

Letters

Sudden bilateral deafness and Chlamydophila infection

Andrew F Whyte and Richard Yu

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 478

Notable cases

Relapsing vivax malaria despite chemoprophylaxis in two blood donors who had travelled to Papua New Guinea

Clive R Seed, Jacqueline T Coughlin, Anne M Pickworth, Robert J Harley and Anthony J Keller

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 471-473 Free

Editorials

Swine flu — lessons learnt in Australia

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 364-365

Research

Examining the knowledge of and attitudes to pandemic influenza among general practice staff

Holly Seale, Kirsten F Ward, Nick Zwar, Debbie Van, Julie Leask and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 378-380 Free

Lessons from practice

Progressive meningoencephalitis in a Sudanese immigrant

Adam P Liu, Shaun Chou, Lavier Gomes, Thomas Ng, Elizabeth L Salisbury, Grant L Walker and Donald R Packham

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 413-416 Free

Diagnostic dilemma

Late-stage human African trypanosomiasis in a Sudanese refugee

Paul Cherian, Ralph K Junckerstorff, David Rosen, Prasad Kumarasinghe, Alan Morling, Philip Tuch, Sonja Raven, Ronan J Murray and Christopher H Heath

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 417-419

Notable cases

Chronic cutaneous ulcers secondary to Haemophilus ducreyi infection

Trisha N Peel, Deepak Bhatti, Jim C De Boer, Ivan Stratov and Denis W Spelman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 348-350 Free

Letters

Microbiological diagnostic tests for community-acquired pneumonia are useful

Adrian R Tramontana and Vincent Sinickas

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 235-236

Letters

Encysted seizures: status epilepticus in a recently resettled refugee child

Juliette M Lucey, James McCarthy and David P Burgner

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 237