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Infectious diseases

Perspective

Towards a cure for long COVID: the strengthening case for persistently replicating SARS‐CoV‐2 as a driver of post‐acute sequelae of COVID‐19

Michelle JL Scoullar, Gabriela Khoury, Suman S Majumdar, Emma Tippett and Brendan S Crabb

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): n/a-n/a Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Primary peritonitis in a previously healthy prepubertal female patient

Danjel Miladinovic and Warren Hargreaves

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 527-528 Free

Narrative review

Scabies: a clinical update

Laxmi Iyengar, Alvin H Chong and Andrew C Steer

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 558-563 Free

Research

Factors associated with general practitioner‐led diagnosis of long COVID: an observational study using electronic general practice data from Victoria and New South Wales, Australia

Abbish Kamalakkannan, Mirela Prgomet, Judith Thomas, Christopher Pearce, Precious McGuire, Fiona Mackintosh and Andrew Georgiou

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S18-S22 Free

Research

Hospital costs of COVID‐19, post‐COVID‐19 condition and other viral pneumonias: a cost comparison analysis

Danielle Hitch, Mary Rose Angeles, Eric Lau, Kelli Nicola‐Richmond, Catherine Bennett, Catherine M Said, Sara Holton, Kimberley Haines, Bodil Rasmussen, Genevieve Pepin, Kieva Richards and Martin Hensher

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S23-S30 Free

Editorial

Long COVID in Victoria

David A Watters and Lance Emerson

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S3-S4 Free

Research

The economic burden of long COVID in Australia: more noise than signal?

Mary Rose Angeles, Thi Thu Ngan Dinh, Ting Zhao, Barbara Graaff and Martin Hensher

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S31-S39 Free

Perspective

An allied health model of care for long COVID rehabilitation

Joanne M Wrench and Leigh R Seidel Marks

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S5-S9 Free

Narrative review

Beyond acute infection: mechanisms underlying post‐acute sequelae of COVID‐19 (PASC)

Anurag Adhikari, Janesha Maddumage, Emily M Eriksson, Sarah J Annesley, Victoria A Lawson, Vanessa L Bryant and Stephanie Gras

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S40-S48 Free

Reflection

Living with long COVID and its impact on family and society: a couple's view

Karlie M Flannigan and Gerard M Flannigan

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S10-S11 Free

Research

Persistent symptoms after COVID‐19: an Australian stratified random health survey on long COVID

Alex Holmes, Lance Emerson, Louis B Irving, Emma Tippett, Jeffrey M Pullin, Julie Young, David A Watters and Adina Hamilton

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S12-S17 Free

Letter to the editor

The seroprevalence of antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus in five New South Wales towns at high risk of infection, 2022

Md Saiful Islam and Holly Seale

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 447-448

Research letter

An outbreak of reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME) after Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in Sydney, 2024: retrospective case series

Joseph Joseph, Kelvin Truong, Artiene Tatian and Orli Wargon

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 434-435 Free

Research letter

A rise in Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections in Victoria in late 2023 and early 2024 detected at two major testing laboratories

Maryza Graham, Thomas Tran, Changxu Zhang, Michelle Sam, Andrew Daley, Kathy Jackson and Chuan Kok Lim

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 436-437 Free

Letter to the editor

Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in Australia: current and future perspectives

Samuel Hui

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): 397-397 Free

Research

Lessons learnt from the first two SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in six remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective epidemiological review

Allison Hempenstall, Barbara Telfer, Sean Cowley, Shalomie Shadrach, Caroline Taunton, Jay Short, Nicolas Smoll, Roy Rasalam, Oscar Whitehead, Peter Roach, Karen Koko, Josh Stafford, Rittia Matysek, Renarta Whitcombe, Gulam Khandaker, Jason King, Nishila Moodley, Maree Finney, Rica Lacey, Steven Donohue, Richard Gair and Katie Panaretto

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 426-433 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Smouldering COVID‐19 XBB.1.5. subvariant pneumonitis: a case report

Sara Davison, Tanmay Kanitkar, Dimitrios Menouhos, Thomas Ewin, Catherine S Marshall, Peter Boan and Sonja Janson

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 244-245 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A case of visceral leishmaniasis masquerading as autoimmune hepatitis

Vinny Ea, Brigitte Papa and Rimma Goldberg

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (6): 299-301 Free

Editorial

The resurgence of congenital syphilis in Australia: novel approaches and sustained, effective public health efforts are required

Stephanie Bond and Marcus Y Chen

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 195-196 Free

Research

The public health and economic burden of long COVID in Australia, 2022–24: a modelling study

Valentina Costantino, Quentin Grafton, Tom Kompas, Long Chu, Damian Honeyman, Adriana Notaras and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 217-223 Free

Research letter

Tetanus, pertussis, and diphtheria vaccination coverage in older adults, Australia, 2023: analysis of Australian Immunisation Register data

Alexandra J Hendry, Helen E Quinn, Kristine Macartney and Frank H Beard

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 224-225 Free

Letter to the editor / Comment

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

Jeremy L Millar

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 226-226 Free

Letter to the editor / Reply

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

Anne Holland and Simone Dal Corso

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 226-226 Free

Perspective

The challenges of malaria elimination in the Asia–Pacific region

Freya JI Fowkes, Leanne J Robinson, Julie A Simpson, Kamala Thriemer, Moses Laman and Win Han Oo

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 182-185 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Severe tetanus infections across New South Wales in 2023

Romeo Torres, Ernest Tee, Sophie Harper, Leemin Chan, John Ng and Andie Lee

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 188-191