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Infectious diseases

Narrative review

Phage therapy for severe bacterial infections: a narrative review

Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan, Ali Khalid, Susan Maddocks, Josephine Ho, Timothy Gilbey, Indy Sandaradura, Ruby CY Lin, Nouri Ben Zakour, Carola Venturini, Bethany Bowring and Jonathan R Iredell

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (6): 279-285

Research

Sexually transmissible infections among transgender men and women attending Australian sexual health clinics

Denton Callander, Teddy Cook, Phillip Read, Margaret E Hellard, Christopher K Fairley, John M Kaldor, Emanuel Vlahakis, Alisa Pollack, Christopher Bourne, Darren B Russell, Rebecca J Guy and Basil Donovan

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (9): 406-411 Free

Letters

First reported case of extensively drug‐resistant typhoid in Australia

Annaleise Howard‐Jones, Alison M Kesson, Alexander C Outhred and Philip N Britton

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (6): 286-286.e1

Letters

Record number of influenza tests in 2019, not a “mutant flu crisis”

Vicky Sheppeard, Robin Gilmour and Sean Tobin

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (7): 333-333.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient with Crohn's disease on dual immunosuppression

Michael B MacIsaac, Sasha R Fehily, Stephen Muhi, Linda Yang, Penelope A McKelvie, Cameron J Jeremiah and Barbara Demediuk

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 206-207.e1

Perspectives

Poliomyelitis outbreak in Papua New Guinea: health system and health security implications for PNG and Australia

John J Hall, Tabian Ambang, Augustine Asante, Pili Mapira, Adam Craig, Elisabeth Schuele and Maha Pervaz Iqbal

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 161-162.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Locally acquired extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase Shigella infection

Hui‐Ling Yeoh, Victoria Hall, Deborah A Williamson and Bradley J Gardiner

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 163-164.e1

Narrative review

Infections in pregnancy

Caitlin L Keighley, Hannah JM Skrzypek, Angela Wilson, Michael A Bonning and Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 134-141

Research letters

Leprosy in Far North Queensland: almost gone, but not to be forgotten

Allison Hempenstall, Simon Smith and Josh Hanson

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 182-183 Free

Letters

Adjunctive bacteriophage therapy for prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus

Timothy Gilbey, Josephine Ho, Louise A Cooley, Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan and Jonathan R Iredell

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 142-143.e1

Perspectives

The WHO resolution on sepsis: what action is needed in Australia?

Luregn J Schlapbach, Kelly Thompson and Simon R Finfer

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (9): 395-397.e1

Perspectives

The risk of resistance: what are the major antimicrobial resistance threats facing Australia?

Deborah A Williamson, Benjamin P Howden and David L Paterson

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 103-105.e1

Perspectives

Australia's response to the global threat of antimicrobial resistance: past, present and future

Joshua S Davis, Cheryl A Jones, Allen C Cheng and Benjamin P Howden

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 106-108.e1

Perspectives

The false dichotomy of viral versus bacterial aetiology in upper respiratory tract infections

Joshua S Davis, Parker J Magin and Mieke L Driel

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 108-109.e1

Perspectives

An urgent need for antimicrobial stewardship in Indigenous rural and remote primary health care

Asha C Bowen, Kathryn Daveson, Lorraine Anderson and Steven YC Tong

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 9-11.e1 Free

Research letter

Reduced VRE and MRSA colonisation and infection following sustained reduction in broad spectrum antibiotic use in a large tertiary hospital

John K Ferguson, Sally A Munnoch, Kristi Kozierowski, Simon Chiu and Christopher Oldmeadow

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 126-127 Free

Research

HPV vaccination coverage and course completion rates for Indigenous Australian adolescents, 2015

Julia ML Brotherton, Karen L Winch, Genevieve Chappell, Carolyn Banks, Dennis Meijer, Sonya Ennis, Karen Peterson, Rosalind Webby and Lisa J Whop

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 31-36 Free

Research

Routine cervical screening by primary HPV testing: early findings in the renewed National Cervical Screening Program

Dorothy A Machalek, Jennifer M Roberts, Suzanne M Garland, Julia Thurloe, Adele Richards, Ian Chambers, Terri Sivertsen and Annabelle Farnsworth

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 113-119 Free

Editorials

Protecting pregnant women and their newborn from life‐threatening infections

Helen S Marshall and Gayatri Amirthalingam

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 445-446

Letters

Call for a national sore throat guideline

Adrian J Tarca, Robert M Hand and Rosemary Wyber

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 477-477.e1

Research

Respiratory syncytial virus‐associated hospitalisations in Australia, 2006–2015

Gemma L Saravanos, Meru Sheel, Nusrat Homaira, Aditi Dey, Edward Brown, Han Wang, Kristine Macartney and Nicholas J Wood

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 447-453 Free

Letters

Pre‐conception care: an important yet underutilised preventive care strategy

Antonia Shand, Pamela Palasanthiran and William D Rawlinson

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 429-429.e1

Letters

Pre‐conception care: an important yet underutilised preventive care strategy

Deborah J Bateson and Kirsten I Black

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 430-430.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Mycobacterial mimicry in a man from Myanmar

David WJ Griffin, G Khai Lin Huang, Philippe Lachapelle, Steven YC Tong and Siddhartha Mahanty

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (8): 349-351.e1

Research

Acute kidney injury in Indigenous Australians in the Kimberley: age distribution and associated diagnoses

Joseph V Mohan, David N Atkinson, Johan B Rosman and Emma K Griffiths

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 19-23 Free