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Infectious diseases

MJA Practice Essentials: Infectious Diseases

1: Infections in pregnant women

Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Series Editors:

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 229-236 Free

Letters

Occupational infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 after a needlestick injury

Mark W Douglas, Jane L Walters and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 240

Letters

Recent appearance of clindamycin resistance in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in south-east Queensland

Wendy J Munckhof, Jacqueline Harper, Jacqueline Schooneveldt and Graeme R Nimmo

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 243-244

Editorials

Management of infectious diseases

M Lindsay Grayson and Steven Wesselingh

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 202-203

Editorials

Preventing perinatal group B streptococcal infection: the jury is still out

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2002; 178 (5): 199-200

Letters

Evidence of human metapneumovirus in Australian children

Michael D Nissen, Ian M Mackay, Stephen J Withers, David J Siebert and Theo P Sloots

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (4): 188

Letters

Risk of death from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a meta-analysis

James C Hurley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (4): 188-189

Letters

Risk of death from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a meta-analysis

Michael Whitby, Mary-Louise McLaws and Geoffrey Berry

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (4): 188-189

Letters

Books as carriers of disease

Sir Keith Jones

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (4): 196

Lessons from practice

Acute, oedematous Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in a farmer from far north Queensland

Grant A Jenkin, May Smith, Mark Fairley and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (4): 180-181 Free

Editorials

Measles transmission in healthcare settings in Australia

Heath A Kelly, Michaela A Riddell and Ross M Andrews

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 45-51

Updates in medicine

HIV medicine

Sean Emery and David A Cooper

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (1): 21

Updates in medicine

Infectious diseases

Peter J McDonald

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (1): 23

Hazards and Help in Communications

Books as carriers of disease

Mark J Ferson

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 663-664

Notable cases

Treatment failure due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin

Peter B Ward, Elizabeth A Grabsch and Barrie C Mayall

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (9): 480-483 Free

Research

Mega-dose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial

Carmen Audera, Roger V Patulny, Beate H Sander and Robert M Douglas

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (7): 359-362 Free

Viewpoint

Allowing the medical use of cannabis

Wayne D Hall, Louisa J Degenhardt and David Currow

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (1): 39-40

Position statement

The management of varicella-zoster virus exposure and infection in pregnancy and the newborn period

Anne-Marie Heuchan and David Isaacs, on behalf of the Australasian Subgroup in Paediatric Infectious Diseases of the Australasian Society for Infectious

Med J Aust 2001; 174 (6): 288-292 Free

For debate

Disease control in the information era

Robert M Douglas

Med J Aust 2001; 174 (5): 241-243

Notable cases

Acute hepatitis C virus infection in an Australian prison inmate: tattooing as a possible transmission route

Jeffrey J Post, Kate A Dolan, Paul S Haber and Andrew R Lloyd

Med J Aust 2001; 174 (4): 183-184 Free

Conference report

XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, 9-14 July, 2000

John B Ziegler and Rosemary A Ffrench

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (11): 572-574

Responding to crisis

Malaria in the Australian Defence Force during and after participation in the International Force in East Timor (INTERFET)

Scott J Kitchener, Alyson M Auliff and Karl H Rieckmann

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (11): 583-585

For debate

Should we conduct a trial of distributing naloxone to heroin users for peer administration to prevent fatal overdose?

Simon R Lenton and Kim M Hargreaves

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (5): 260-263

Notable cases

Australian bat lyssavirus infection: a second human case, with a long incubation period

Jeffrey N Hanna, Ian K Carney, Greg A Smith, Joseph E Deverill, John A Botha, Ina L Serafin, Bruce J Harrower, Peter F Fitzpatrick and Jeffrey W Searle

Med J Aust 2000; 172 (12): 597-599 Free

Research

HIV and AIDS in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: 1992-1998

Jillian A Guthrie, Gregory J Dore, Ann M McDonald and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2000; 172 (6): 266-269 Free