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Clinical guidelines 4 Apr 2011

Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Clostridium difficile infection

Allen C Cheng, John K Ferguson, Michael J Richards, Jennifer M Robson, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Alistair McGregor, Sally Roberts, Tony M Korman and Thomas V Riley

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (7): 353-358 Free

Obituary 4 Apr 2011

Frank Fenner AC, CMG, MBE, FAA, FRS

Peter McCullagh

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (7): 366 Free

Research 21 Mar 2011

The domino effect: adolescent girls’ response to human papillomavirus vaccination

Diana M Bernard, Spring C Cooper Robbins, Kirsten J McCaffery, Caroline M Scott and S Rachel Skinner

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (6): 297-300 Free

Lessons from practice 21 Mar 2011

Mumps presenting as epididymo-orchitis among young travellers: under-recognition, missed diagnoses and transmission risks

Joseph S Doyle, Emma K Paige and Denis W Spelman

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (6): 317-318 Free

Editorials 7 Mar 2011

Unmasking the evidence about masks

Mary-Louise McLaws and Jan Gralton

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 222-223

Letters 7 Mar 2011

How can we better understand trends in varicella zoster virus-related disease epidemiology?

Anita E Heywood and Kristine K Macartney

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 268-269

Letters 21 Feb 2011

Treatment of recurrent multiresistant Escherichia coli prostatitis with azithromycin

Simon H T Jiang and Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 208

Letters 21 Feb 2011

Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in Australia: time to amend infection control measures for pituitary hormone recipients?

Suzanne L Solvyns and David W Ralston

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 214-215

Letters 21 Feb 2011

Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in Australia: time to amend infection control measures for pituitary hormone recipients?

Alison Boyd, Genevieve M J A Klug, Colin L Masters and Steven J Collins

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 214-215

Research 21 Feb 2011

FluCAN 2009: initial results from sentinel surveillance for adult influenza and pneumonia in eight Australian hospitals

Paul M Kelly, Tom Kotsimbos, Anna Reynolds, Richard Wood-Baker, Bob Hancox, Simon G A Brown, Mark Holmes, Graham Simpson, Simon Bowler, Grant Waterer, Louis B Irving, Christine Jenkins, Phillip J Thompson and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 169-174 Free

Supplement 21 Feb 2011

Prediction and surveillance of influenza epidemics

Justin R Boyle, Ross S Sparks, Gerben B Keijzers, Julia L Crilly, James F Lind and Louise M Ryan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): S28 Free

Notable cases 21 Feb 2011

First report of human anisakidosis in Australia

Shokoofeh Shamsi and Andrew R Butcher

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 199-200 Free

Letters 7 Feb 2011

Lowering Australia’s defence against infectious diseases

Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 152

Research 17 Jan 2011

Incidence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza infection in children and pregnant women during the 2009 influenza season in Western Australia — a seroprevalence study

Gary K Dowse, David W Smith, Heath Kelly, Ian Barr, Karen L Laurie, Anthony R Jones, Anthony D Keil and Paul Effler

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (2): 68-72 Free

Letters 17 Jan 2011

ESAC point prevalence methodology to assess antimicrobial consumption and quality of prescribing in an Australian setting

Jennifer A Kieran, Rosaleen G O’Doherty and Bernard J Hudson

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (2): 103-104

Letters 3 Jan 2011

A risk for returned travellers: the “post-antibiotic era”

Subhash C Arya and Nirmala Agarwal

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 55-56

Research 3 Jan 2011

Cross-reacting antibodies against the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus in older Australians

Robert Booy, Gulam Khandaker, Leon G Heron, Jiehui Yin, Bridget Doyle, Katherine K Tudo, Linda Hueston, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, C Raina MacIntyre and Dominic E Dwyer

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 19-23 Free

Notable cases 3 Jan 2011