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Infectious diseases

Notable cases

Chronic falciparum malaria causing massive splenomegaly 9 years after leaving an endemic area

Benjamin P Howden, Gautam Vaddadi, M Lindsay Grayson and Joseph Manitta

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (4): 186-188 Free

Editorials

Malaria chemoprophylaxis: in war and peace

James S McCarthy

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (4): 148-149

Public health

Notifications of imported malaria in Western Australia, 1990–2001: incidence, associated factors and chemoprophylaxis

Donnetta M Charles, Julie Hart, Wendy A Davis, Timothy M E Davis, Eleanor Sullivan and Gary K Dowse

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (4): 164-167 Free

Public health

Mefloquine and doxycycline malaria prophylaxis in Australian soldiers in East Timor

Scott J Kitchener, Peter E Nasveld, Robin M Gregory and Michael D Edstein

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (4): 168-171 Free

Letters

An unusual neonatal zoonosis

Emma J Best, Monica M Lahra and Pam Palasanthiran

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (3): 137

Letters

Postpartum toxic shock syndrome associated with multiple splenic infarcts

Adrienne Torda

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 93

Conference report

Immunisation at the crossroads: 9th National Immunisation/1st Asia–Pacific Vaccine Preventable Diseases Conference

Peter B McIntyre, Heath A Kelly and E Kim Mulholland

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 15-16

Notable cases

Hepatitis C-associated cryoglobulinaemia presenting with refractory hypertensive crisis and acute pulmonary oedema

Li-Na Lee, Shyh-Chyi Lo, Fu-Chi Lin, Hon-Ping Lau, Jih-Shuin Jerng and Pan-Chyr Yang

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 38-40 Free

Letters

Varicella seroprevalence and vaccine uptake in preschool children

Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Heather F Gidding, Josephine Backhouse and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (1): 42

South Pacific

Sirus Naraqi, CBE, MD, FACP, FRACP

Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 611 Free

Letters

Reactive arthritis and vasculitis in a child due to Ross River virus infection

Kynan T Feeney, Kevin J Murray, Amanda J Whittle and Gary K Dowse

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (11): 710

For debate

The dearth of new antibiotic development: why we should be worried and what we can do about it

Patrick G P Charles and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (10): 549-553 Free

EBM: Trials on trial

Does probiotic milk prevent infections in children attending daycare centres?

Mark G Coulthard and Craig M Mellis

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (10): 556-557

Letters

Pertussis vaccination for new parents?

Brad J McCall, Rod P Davison, Michael D Nissen and Clare B Nourse

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (10): 578

Letters

Are the Australian guidelines asking too much of the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI)?

Patrick G P Charles, Michelle Ananda-Rajah, Paul D R Johnson and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (9): 515-516

Letters

Are the Australian guidelines asking too much of the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI)?

Kirsty L Buising, Karin A Thursky, James F Black and Graham V Brown

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (9): 515-516

Notable cases

Visceral leishmaniasis: a trip to the Greek Islands is not always idyllic

Oui Ju, David I Grove, Wilfrid J Jaksic and Geoffrey W Dart

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (8): 446-447 Free

Letters

Fatal necrotising pneumonia due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Anton Y Peleg and Wendy J Munckhof

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 228-229

Letters

Fatal leptospirosis presenting as musculoskeletal pain

Lloyd K Morgan

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 229

Lessons from practice

Adult chickenpox complicated by fatal necrotising pneumonia

Peter JO Stride, Matthys JJ Campher, Janice M Geary, Christopher Coulter and Edwina E Duhig

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (3): 160-161 Free

Letters

Vaccines: the new Australian best-practice schedule

Subhash C Arya and Nirmala Agarwal

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (3): 176

Letters

Emergence of heteroresistant vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) infection in Western Australia

Ronan J Murray, Kishore Sieunarine, Peter B Ward and John W Pearman

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 227-228

Editorials

The time to recommend antenatal HIV screening for all pregnant women has arrived

John B Ziegler and Nicholas Graves

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (3): 124-125

Letter

Ciprofloxacin in the treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media

James D Kidd

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (2): 84

Editorials

Avian influenza and planning for pandemics

David Isaacs, Dominic E Dwyer and Alan W Hampson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (2): 62-63