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Infectious diseases

Diagnostic dilemmas

Headache of a diagnosis: frontotemporal pain and inflammation associated with osteolysis

Lyndal J Tacon, Jonathon F Parkinson, Bernard J Hudson, Janice M Brewer, Nicholas S Little and Roderick J Clifton-Bligh

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (10): 591-592

Notable cases

Zygomycosis due to Saksenaea vasiformis caused by a magpie peck

Paul A Wilson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 521-522 Free

Letters

Management of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in a pregnant woman in Benin using rifampicin and clarithromycin

Ange D Dossou, Ghislain E Sopoh, Christian R Johnson, Yves T Barogui, Dissou Affolabi, Sévérin Y Anagonou, Théophile Zohoun, Françoise Portaels and Kingsley Asiedu

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 532-533

Letters

Kaposi’s varicelliform eruption in a healthy adult

Hajime Kimata

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 534

Research

Vaccination and screening of medical students: results of a student health initiative

Adrienne J Torda

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 484-486 Free

Lessons from practice

Disseminated Saksenaea vasiformis in an immunocompetent host

Dean J Trotter, Gena Gonis, Erin Cottrill and Christopher Coombs

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 519-520 Free

Public health

Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands: results of a comprehensive control program

Rae-Lin Huang, Paul J Torzillo, Vivien A Hammond, Stephanie T Coulter and Adrienne C Kirby

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (8): 442-445 Free

Public health

Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands: results of a comprehensive control program — a postscript

Rae-Lin Huang, Paul J Torzillo and Adrienne C Kirby

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (8): 446 Free

Clinical update

Mumps: a resurgent disease with protean manifestations

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (8): 456-459 Free

Letters

Two cases of Streptococcus suis endocarditis in Australian piggery workers

Karina J Kennedy, Assad A Jadeer, Chong W Ong, Sanjaya N Senanayake and Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 413

Medicine and the community

Staphylococcal pyomyositis in a temperate region: epidemiology and modern management

Andrew A Block, Catherine Marshall, Alison Ratcliffe and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 323-325 Free

Letters

The prevention and management of herpes zoster

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 347

Public health

Strongyloidiasis in personnel of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI)

David A Pattison and Richard Speare

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 203-206 Free

Letters

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Niyi Awofeso

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237

Letters

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237

Research

Variable uptake of recommended interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Australia, 1982–2005

Michelle L Giles, Ann M McDonald, Elizabeth J Elliott, John B Ziegler, Margaret E Hellard, Sharon R Lewin and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 151-154 Free

Notable cases

Paediatric lobar lung transplantation: addressing the paucity of donor organs

Dominic T Keating, Glen P Westall, Silvana F Marasco, Jacquie H Burton, Mark R Buckland, Colin F Robertson, Trevor J Williams and Gregory I Snell

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 173-175 Free

Letters

Recognition of USA300 isolates of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Australia

Thomas Gottlieb, Wei-Yuen Su, John Merlino and Elaine Y-L Cheong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 179-180

Research

High prevalence of tinea capitis in newly arrived migrants at an English-language school, Melbourne, 2005

Michelle E McPherson, Alan J Woodgyer, Kleete Simpson and Alvin H Chong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 13-16 Free

Public health

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland: an update, 2005–2007

Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys and Denise M Murphy

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 43-46 Free

Letters

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): “missing the wood for the trees”

Raymond C Chan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 733-734

Letters

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): “missing the wood for the trees”

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 733-734

Letters

Paragonimiasis: an unusual case of haemoptysis

Murad G Ibrahim, Richard Bunter, Stanley Rajasooriar and Francis Thien

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 734-735

Research

Significant reductions in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and clinical isolates associated with a multisite, hand hygiene culture-change program and subsequent successful statewide roll-out

M Lindsay Grayson, Lisa J Jarvie, Rhea Martin, Paul D R Johnson, Meryanda E Jodoin, Celene McMullan, Roger H C Gregory, Kaye Bellis, Katie Cunnington, Fiona L Wilson, Diana Quin and Anne-Maree Kelly

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 633-640 Free

Letters

Dangerous liaisons — syphilis and HIV in Victoria

David E Leslie, Nasra Higgins and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 676-677