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Volume 196 Issue 5

19 March 2012

Editor's choice

Managing antimicrobial resistance requires resisting the inappropriate use of antimicrobials

Susan Maddocks

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 291 Free

Editorials

Infectious diseases in Australia — the next decade

Thomas Gottlieb, Bart J Currie and David F M Looke, on behalf of the Executive Council of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 292-293

The 20th century re-emergence of epidemic infectious diseases: lessons learned and future prospects

Duane J Gubler

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 293-294

Educating Australia’s future doctors

Jennifer J Conn, David A Ellwood and James M Hillis

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 295-296

In brief

From the NHMRC

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 298

News

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 299

Concepts in epidemiology: the cohort effect

Terence M Mills

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 311

Perspectives

Machine learning and data mining for epidemic surveillance

Anders Kofod-Petersen

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 301

Does antibiotic use in farmed animals pose a risk to human health? – Yes

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 302

Does antibiotic use in farmed animals pose a risk to human health? — No

Stephen W Page

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 303

Improving the effectiveness of clinical medicine: the need for better science

Ian A Scott and Paul P Glasziou

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 304-308 Free

HIV and AIDS in Africa: good news and bad news

Robert G Cumming

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 309

Current challenges in appraising complementary medicine evidence

Jerome Sarris

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 310-311 Free

Letters

Competence and capacity at the end of life: uneasy paternalism

Sharon G Reutens and Carmelle Peisah

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 312

Competence and capacity at the end of life: uneasy paternalism

Brian H Le and Michael D Chapman

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 312

Should opioids be used for chronic non-cancer pain?

Michael J Cousins

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 312-313

The need for genetic studies of Indigenous Australians

Gareth S Baynam

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 313

Medication to prevent breast cancer — too much to swallow?

Jerry R Greenfield and Ann I McCormack

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 314

A survey of injuries sustained in falls from ladders among patients at an inner-city trauma centre

Michael M Dinh, Helen L Stark and Kendall J Bein

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 314-315

Inpatient subacute care in Australia: perceptions of admission and discharge barriers

Kathleen McCarthy

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 315

We’ll drink to that: the 200th anniversary of Australia’s oldest hospital

John D Paull

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 315-316

We’ll drink to that: the 200th anniversary of Australia’s oldest hospital

Michael G Cooper

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 315-316

Clinical focus

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: immune restoration disease 20 years on

Martyn A H French

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 318-321 Free

Murray Valley encephalitis: a review of clinical features, diagnosis and treatment

James Knox, Raquel U Cowan, Joseph S Doyle, Matthew K Ligtermoet, John S Archer, James N C Burrow, Steven Y C Tong, Bart J Currie, John S Mackenzie, David W Smith, Mike Catton, Rodney J Moran, Craig A Aboltins and Jack S Richards

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 322-326 Free

Research

Surveillance of infection burden in residential aged care facilities

Ching Jou Lim, Susan C McLellan, Allen C Cheng, Joanne M Culton, Sneha N Parikh, Anton Y Peleg* and David C M Kong*

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 327-331 Free

Twenty-six years of enteric fever in Australia: an epidemiological analysis of antibiotic resistance

Robert J Commons, Emma McBryde, Mary Valcanis, Joan Powling, Alan Street and Geoff Hogg

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 332-336 Free

Estimating the future burden of cancers preventable by better diet and physical activity in Australia

Peter D Baade, Xingqiong Meng, Craig Sinclair and Philippa Youl

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 337-340 Free

Epidemiology, clinical features and diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans in an Australian population

Sarah C Boyd, Eugene Athan, N Deborah Friedman, Andrew Hughes, Aaron Walton, Peter Callan, Anthony McDonald and Daniel P O’Brien

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 341-344 Free

Melioidosis at Royal Darwin Hospital in the big 2009–2010 wet season: comparison with the preceding 20 years

Uma Parameswaran, Robert W Baird, Linda M Ward and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 345-348 Free

Case reports

First report of human babesiosis in Australia

Sanjaya N Senanayake, Andrea Paparini, Maya Latimer, Kerrie Andriolo, Alexandre J Dasilva, Heather Wilson, Maniphet V Xayavong, Peter J Collignon, Phillip Jeans and Peter J Irwin

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 350-352 Free

Ethics and law

Challenges to Australia’s national health policy from trade and investment agreements

Deborah H Gleeson, Kyla S Tienhaara and Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 354-356 Free

Medical education

Only the best: medical student selection in Australia

Ian G Wilson, Christopher Roberts, Eleanor M Flynn and Barbara Griffin

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 357 Free

Reflections

Infectious diseases in the bigger picture

Warwick H Anderson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 358

Robert Anthony MacMahon

Robert J Stunden

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 359 Free

The case for herd immunity

Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 359

Corrections

We’ll drink to that: the 200th anniversary of the permanent Sydney Hospitals

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 316

Guide-wire fragment embolisation in paediatric peripherally inserted central catheters

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 316

Careers

Bug battlefield

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): C1 Free

Essential protection

Kath Ryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): C6 Free

An illness aide-mémoire

John de

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): C9 Free