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Volume 200 Issue 5

17 March 2014

In this issue

Infectious diseases — sometimes out of sight, never out of mind

Tania Janusic

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Highlights from our archives

Highlights from our archives

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Editorials

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: collaborative regional leadership required

Suman S Majumdar, Ben J Marais, Justin T Denholm and Warwick J Britton

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 241-242

Clostridium difficile — what is the Australian story?

Paul D R Johnson and Rhonda L Stuart

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 242-243

Immunisation for herpes zoster: current status

Anthony L Cunningham, John C B Litt and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 243-244

In brief

From the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

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News

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Perspectives

Advance care directives are not always helpful

Adrian M J Pokorny

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Post-election policy pointers

Changes in health financing

Steven J Hambleton

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Partial foot amputation may not always be worth the risk of complications

Michael P Dillon, Stefania Fatone and Meg E Morris

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Letters

Tranexamic acid and trauma

James Jarman and Andrew Brier

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Tranexamic acid and trauma

Ian Roberts

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Tranexamic acid and trauma

Russell L Gruen, Ian G Jacobs and Michael C Reade

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Think before you insert an intravenous catheter

Peter Lewindon

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How should we interpret hospital infection statistics?

Diane E Watson

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How should we interpret hospital infection statistics?

Allen C Cheng and Leon J Worth

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Listeria monocytogenes in a healthy young adult

Ohide Otome, Michael Bullen and Adrian R Tramontana

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 259

Time to reconsider steroid injections in the spine?

Thomas K F Taylor and Stephen J Ruff

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 259-260

First, do no harm

Lynton G F Giles

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Measuring the environmental cost of health-related travel from rural and remote Australia

Colleen Cheek, Timothy Skinner and Isabelle Ellis

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 260-262

Revalidation in the United Kingdom

Heinz Tilenius

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 262-263

Doctors, death certificates and reporting to coroners — room for improvement

Susan J MacCallum and Antoinette C Anazodo

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 263

Doctors, death certificates and reporting to coroners — room for improvement

Sandra L Neate, Lyndal C Bugeja and George A Jelinek

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Doctors, death certificates and reporting to coroners — room for improvement

Stephen M Cordner

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Vitamin D and tuberculosis

Anastasios Konstantinos

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Clinical focus

Guidelines

Treatment and prevention of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer) in Australia: guideline update

Daniel P O’Brien, Grant Jenkin, John Buntine, Christina M Steffen, Anthony McDonald, Simon Horne, N Deborah Friedman, Eugene Athan, Andrew Hughes, Peter P Callan and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 267-270 Free

Research

Increasing incidence of Clostridium difficile infection, Australia, 2011–2012

Claudia Slimings, Paul Armstrong, Wendy D Beckingham, Ann L Bull, Lisa Hall, Karina J Kennedy, John Marquess, Rebecca McCann, Andrea Menzies, Brett G Mitchell, Michael J Richards, Paul C Smollen, Lauren Tracey, Irene J Wilkinson, Fiona L Wilson, Leon J Worth and Thomas V Riley

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 272-276 Free

Trends in HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C prevalence among Australian prisoners - 2004, 2007, 2010

Joanne M Reekie, Michael H Levy, Alun H Richards, Christopher J Wake, Deborah A Siddall, Holly M Beasley, Shalin Kumar and Tony G Butler

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 277-280 Free

Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection in Australian hospitals: findings from a Victorian surveillance system

Leon J Worth, Tim Spelman, Ann L Bull and Michael J Richards

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 282-284 Free

Decreasing prevalence of Trichuris trichiura (whipworm) in the Northern Territory from 2002 to 2012

Amy L Crowe, Pam Smith, Linda Ward, Bart J Currie and Rob Baird

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 286-289 Free

Airport arrivals screening during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in New South Wales, Australia

Praveena J Gunaratnam, Sean Tobin, Holly Seale, Andrew Marich and Jeremy McAnulty

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): 290-292 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Artefactual “in-vitro coagulopathy” in a patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Roderick O’Day, Golo Ahlenstiel, Anita Chittaranjan Shetty, Emmanuel J Favaloro, Stephen J Williams and Jerry Koutts

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Reflections

History

Smallpox vaccination, colonial Sydney and serendipity

Kathryn M Weston, Wendy C Gallagher and James M Branley

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Book review

Layperson’s guide to pandemics

Merryn C McKinnon

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Careers

Betting the bank

Annabel McGilvray

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Flying visits for rural angel

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (5): C4 Free