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Medical education / Lessons from practice

Botulism: a mimic for brainstem strokes and Miller Fisher syndrome

Chris Kwan, Anthony Elias, Katherine Todd, Celia Bradford, Joshua Smith, Indira Datta, Jimmy Ng, Katie Kelleway, Jessica Butler, Sarah Webb and Michal Lubomski

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 554-556 Free

Editorial

Japanese encephalitis virus in Australia: an ecological and epidemiological enigma

John S Mackenzie and David W Smith

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 559-560 Free

Research

The seroprevalence of antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus in five New South Wales towns at high risk of infection, 2022: a cross‐sectional serosurvey

Zoe Baldwin, Linda Hueston, April Roberts‐Witteveen, Priscilla Stanley, Meru Sheel, Noni Winkler, Archana Koirala, Kristine Macartney, Jennifer Case, Kirsty Hope and Keira M Glasgow

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 561-565 Free

Research

Serosurvey for Japanese encephalitis virus antibodies following an outbreak in an immunologically naïve population, Victoria, 2022: a cross‐sectional study

Madeleine J Marsland, Tilda N Thomson, Helen M O'Brien, Elizabeth Peach, Jody Bellette, Nicole Humphreys, Clare‐Anne McKeon, William Cross, Michael A Moso, Mitchell Batty, Suellen Nicholson, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Chuan Kok Lim, Deborah A Williamson, Noni Winkler, Archana Koirala, Kristine Macartney, Anna Glynn‐Robinson, Tony Stewart, Corinna Minko, Kathryn J Snow, Jim Black and N Deborah Friedman

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 566-572 Free

Research letter

Emergency department presentations in Queensland by First Nations people, remote residents, and young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020: interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben B Keijzers, Dinesh Palipana, John Gerrard and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 579-581 Free

Research letter

Reduced numbers of elective joint replacement procedures in Australia during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020–2022: a registry data analysis study

Christopher J Wall, Christopher J Vertullo, David RJ Gill, Richard S Page, Carl Holder and Paul N Smith

Med J Aust 2024; (3): n/a-n/a Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Paracoccidioidomycosis: an Australian case

Timothy C Badrick, Ella M Meumann, Kathryn Shirley, Peter Simos, Mertya L May, Gary Quagliotto, Evan C Bursle, Nici Leonard, Rodney J McDougall and Jennifer M Robson

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (10): 505-506 Free

Editorial

Averting infections when implanting cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators

William F Heddle AM

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (10): 507-508 Free

Research

Cardiovascular outcomes for people hospitalised with COVID‐19 in Australia, and the effect of vaccination: an observational cohort study

Hari P Sritharan, Kunwardeep S Bhatia, William Gaal, Leonard Kritharides, Clara K Chow and Ravinay Bhindi

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (10): 517-522 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae causing emphysematous pyelonephritis: a life‐threatening pathogen within Australian communities

Katherine GC Ong, John R Dyer and Dickon Hayne

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (8): 400-402 Free

Consensus statement

Australian consensus statement on doxycycline post‐exposure prophylaxis (doxy‐PEP) for the prevention of syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhoea among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men

Vincent J Cornelisse, Benjamin Riley and Nicholas A Medland

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 381-386 Free

Perspectives

Response to the ASHM 2023 statement on the use of doxy‐PEP in Australia: considerations and recommendations

Sara F E Bell, Emma L Sweeney, Fabian Y S Kong, David M Whiley, Catriona S Bradshaw and Jacob A Tickner

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 356-360 Free

Research

Long COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave: a cross‐sectional survey

Mulu Woldegiorgis, Gemma Cadby, Sera Ngeh, Rosemary J Korda, Paul K Armstrong, Jelena Maticevic, Paul Knight, Andrew Jardine, Lauren E Bloomfield and Paul V Effler

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 323-330 Free

Research letters

Post‐COVID‐19 condition symptoms 12 and 24 months after COVID‐19 during the first month of the pandemic in Melbourne: a cohort study

Dorothy Q Ling, Grace Gibney, Fiona James, Natasha E Holmes and Kyra YL Chua

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 336-338 Free

Letter

Prevalence, pathogenesis and spectrum of neurological symptoms in COVID‐19 and post‐COVID‐19 syndrome

Josef Finsterer and Fulvio A Scorza

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 341-341

Perspectives

Women in medical leadership: has the COVID‐19 crisis heightened the glass cliff?

Melissa A Wheeler and Laksmi S Govindasamy

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 352-354 Free

Research

The effectiveness of maternal pertussis vaccination for protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants against infection, 2012–2017: a retrospective cohort study

Lisa McHugh, Heather A D’Antoine, Mohinder Sarna, Michael J Binks, Hannah C Moore, Ross M Andrews, Gavin F Pereira, Christopher C Blyth, Paul Van Buynder, Karin Lust and Annette K Regan

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 196-201 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Toxigenic cutaneous diphtheria without recent travel, Sydney, Australia, 2022

Caitlin Swift, Anthea L Katelaris, Thea Briggen Tiqui, Julie Smith, Tracey Papa, Estella Janz‐Robinson, Trang Nguyen, Qinning Wang, Jenny Draper, Vitali Sintchenko, Debbie JE Marriott and Vicky Sheppeard

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 126-128

Research

The Alfred Health post‐COVID‐19 service, Melbourne, 2020–2022: an observational cohort study

Anne E Holland, Daniel Fineberg, Tunya Marceau, Melissa Chong, Jessica Beaman, Lisa Wilson, Jo‐Anne Buchanan, Jacqueline Uren, Simone Dal Corso, Natasha A Lannin, Mariana Hoffman, Christie R Mellerick, Kathya Fernando and Janet Bondarenko

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (2): 91-96 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A thorny case of spastic paralysis

Travis Lines, Aadith Ashok, Sadid F Khan and Michael J Loftus

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 526-527

Systematic review

COVID‐19 rapid antigen tests approved for self‐testing in Australia: published diagnostic test accuracy studies and manufacturer‐supplied information. A systematic review

Katy JL Bell, Yuyang Li, Ellie Medcalf and Deonna Ackermann

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 551-558 Free

Research

Disruption of gender‐affirming health care, and COVID‐19 illness, testing, and vaccination among trans Australians during the pandemic: a cross‐sectional survey

Sav Zwickl, Tomi Ruggles, Alex FQ Wong, Ariel Ginger, Lachlan M Angus, Kalen Eshin, Teddy Cook and Ada S Cheung

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 23-28 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Back pain in an Australian farmer: an unusual case of cryptococcal osteomyelitis

Michael D Riceman, Caitlyn Sun, John Pierides, Jennifer Catford, Renjy Nelson and Anushia Ashokan

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 523-525 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Human pulmonary dirofilariasis: an unexpected differential diagnosis for a solitary lung lesion

Sigrid G Theodore, Hannah J Sawkins, Manish Mathew, Sumit Yadav and Robert Norton

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 455-456

Guideline summary

Australian evidence‐based guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes‐related foot disease: a guideline summary

Peter A Lazzarini, Anita Raspovic, Jenny Prentice, Robert J Commons, Robert A Fitridge, James Charles, Jane Cheney, Nytasha Purcell and Stephen M Twigg

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 485-495 Free