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Research

First reported outbreak of locally acquired hepatitis E virus infection in Australia

Chaturangi M Yapa, Catriona Furlong, Alexander Rosewell, Kate A Ward, Sheena Adamson, Craig Shadbolt, Jen Kok, Samantha L Tracy, Scott Bowden, Elizabeth J Smedley, Mark J Ferson, Vicky Sheppeard and Jeremy M McAnulty

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 274 Free

Short reports

Immunisation for medical researchers: an ethical and practical imperative

Michelle L Townsend, Brin FS Grenyer, Wilfred Yeo and Ian Wright

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 263

Editorials

The ASID test

Cheryl A Jones, Joshua S Davis and David FM Looke

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 250-251

Research

Characterising health care-associated bloodstream infections in public hospitals in Queensland, 2008–2012

Damin Si, Naomi Runnegar, John Marquess, Mohana Rajmokan and Elliott G Playford

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 276 Free

Short reports

A case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in a 23-year-old recent immigrant to Australia

Eloise Williams, Iain J Abbott, Lai Yin Law and Stephen David Guy

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 264

Editorials

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Australia and our region

James M Trauer and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 251-253 Free

Case reports / Lessons from practice

Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae: a major clinical challenge

Christine L Mandrawa, Katie Cronin, Kirsty L Buising, Yves S Poy Lorenzo, Mary J Waters and Cameron J Jeremiah

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 277-278 Free

Short reports

Rising incidence of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W in Victoria

Katherine A Bond, Kerrie Stevens, Dieter Bulach, Kylie Carville, Katherine S Ong and Benjamin P Howden

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 265-266

Perspectives

Ebola outbreak in West Africa: considerations for strengthening Australia’s international health emergency response

Alexander Rosewell, Paul Effler, Chaturangi Yapa, Barbara Telfer, Jennie Musto and Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 258-259

Editorials

Resistance sans frontières: containing antimicrobial resistance nationally and globally

John Turnidge, Chris Baggoley, Mark Schipp and Robyn Martin

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 207-208 Free

Research

Cord blood vitamin D and the risk of acute lower respiratory infection in Indigenous infants in the Northern Territory

Michael J Binks, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Robyn Marsh, Anne B Chang and Ross M Andrews

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 238 Free

Short reports

First report of Zika virus infection in a returned traveller from the Solomon Islands

Nastaran Rafiei, Krispin Hajkowicz, Andrew Redmond and Carmel Taylor

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (5): 186

Case reports / Lessons from practice

Necrotising myositis presenting as multiple limb myalgia

Henrique Nicola and David JR Morgan

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 157-158

Editorials

Ebola and the WHO: a journey from toothless tiger to global dragon?

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (3): 94-95 Free

Research

Socio-demographic and structural barriers to being tested for chlamydia in general practice

Andrew Lau, Simone Spark, Jane Tomnay, Meredith Temple-Smith, Christopher K Fairley, Rebecca J Guy, Basil Donovan and Jane S Hocking

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (3): 112 Free

Case reports / Snapshot

Severe ulcerative herpes zoster

Andrew DK Nguyen and Gabriela Strey

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 61

Short reports

How severe was the 2015 influenza season in Australia?

James E Fielding, Annette K Regan, Craig B Dalton, Monique B-N Chilver and Sheena G Sullivan

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 60-61 Free

Research

SEPSIS KILLS: early intervention saves lives

Anthony R Burrell, Mary-Louise McLaws, Mary Fullick, Rosemary B Sullivan and Doungkamol Sindhusake

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 73 Free

Research

Influenza vaccine effectiveness in general practice and in hospital patients in Victoria, 2011–2013

Heath A Kelly, Courtney Lane and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 76 Free

Case reports / Lessons from practice

Repeat exposure to active tuberculosis and risk of re-infection

Claudia C Dobler, Roujan Chidiac, Jonathan P Williamson and Peter J Jelfs

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 77-78

Case reports / Lessons from practice

A case of bilateral endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis from Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteraemia

Jeewaka E Mohotti, Shuang Q Chan and Fumitaka Nonaka

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 79-80

News / From the CSIRO

Malaria detection using breath biomarkers

Amalia Z Berna, James S McCarthy and Stephen C Trowell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 50

Short reports

Imported New World screw-worm fly myiasis

Sonny Lau, Ian Langstaff and Norbert J Ryan

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (11): 435

Research

Risk factors and burden of acute Q fever in older adults in New South Wales: a prospective cohort study

Surendra Karki, Heather F Gidding, Anthony T Newall, Peter B McIntyre and Bette C Liu

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (11): 438 Free

Research

The epidemiology of tuberculosis in children in Australia, 2003–2012

Stephen S Teo, Ee Laine Tay, Paul Douglas, Vicki L Krause and Stephen M Graham

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (11): 440 Free