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Infectious diseases

Short report

The microbiology of crocodile attacks in Far North Queensland: implications for empirical antimicrobial therapy

Simon Smith, Richard J Bagshaw and Josh Hanson

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 307-308

Editorials

Death from an untreatable infection may signal the start of the post-antibiotic era

Cheryl A Jones, Joshua S Davis and David FM Looke

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 292-293 Free

Guideline summary

The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases and Refugee Health Network of Australia recommendations for health assessment for people from refugee-like backgrounds: an abridged outline

Nadia J Chaves, Georgia A Paxton, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Aesen Thambiran, Joanne Gardiner, Jan Williams, Mitchell M Smith and Joshua S Davis

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 310-315 Free

Editorials

Dengue and travellers: implications for doctors in Australia

David CB Lye

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 293-294 Free

Narrative review

Controversies in diagnosis and management of community-acquired pneumonia

Sarah Sparham and Patrick GP Charles

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 316-319

Research

Management of dengue in Australian travellers: a retrospective multicentre analysis

Alex YC Tai, Sarah L McGuinness, Roselle Robosa, David Turner, G Khai Lin Huang, Karin Leder, Tony M Korman, Irani Thevarajan, Andrew J Stewardson, Alexander A Padiglione and Douglas F Johnson

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 295-300 Free

Short report

HPV vaccine coverage is increasing in Australia

Julia ML Brotherton, Karen L Winch, Lisette Bicknell, Genevieve Chappell and Marion Saville

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (6): 262

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Streptococcus pyogenes pericarditis in a healthy adult: a common organism in an uncommon site

Lauren C Giudicatti, Gar-Hing Lee, Claire Italiano and Nik Stoyanov

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 113-114

Narrative review

Mycobacterium chimaera and cardiac surgery

Andrew J Stewardson, Rhonda L Stuart, Allen C Cheng and Paul DR Johnson

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 132-135

Editorials

The excess burden of severe sepsis in Indigenous Australian children: can anything be done?

Pamela Palasanthiran and Asha C Bowen

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (2): 71-72 Free

Research

The burden of invasive infections in critically ill Indigenous children in Australia

Justyna A Ostrowski, Graeme MacLaren, Janet Alexander, Penny Stewart, Sheena Gune, Joshua R Francis, Subodh Ganu, Marino Festa, Simon J Erickson, Lahn Straney and Luregn J Schlapbach

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (2): 78-84 Free

Reflections / Medical history

The Roman fever: observations on the understanding of malaria in the ancient Roman world

Milton J Micallef

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 501-503

Appropriateness of care

Antimicrobial use in Australian hospitals: how much and how appropriate?

John D Turnidge, Karin Thursky, Caroline S Chen, Vicki R McNeil and Irene J Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (10): S16-S20 Free

Narrative review

Does Lyme disease exist in Australia?

Peter J Collignon, Gary D Lum and Jennifer MB Robson

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (9): 413-417 Free

Consensus statement

Sexual transmission of HIV and the law: an Australian medical consensus statement

Mark Boyd, David Cooper, Elizabeth A Crock, Levinia Crooks, Michelle L Giles, Andrew Grulich, Sharon R Lewin, David Nolan and Trent Yarwood

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (9): 409-412

Research

Impact of the Australian National Cervical Screening Program in women of different ages

Megan Smith and Karen Canfell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (8): 359-364 Free

Perspectives

No Jab, No Pay — no planning for migrant children

Georgia A Paxton, Lauren Tyrrell, Sophie B Oldfield, Karen Kiang and Margie H Danchin

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (7): 296-298 Free

Research

The prevalence and clinical associations of HTLV-1 infection in a remote Indigenous community

Lloyd J Einsiedel, Hai Pham, Richard J Woodman, Clinton Pepperill and Kerry A Taylor

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (7): 305-309 Free

Narrative review

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in North Queensland: the paediatric experience

Claire L Nicholls, Fiona Parsonson, Lawrence EK Gray, Adele Heyer, Steven Donohue, Greg Wiseman and Robert Norton

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (7): 325-328 Free

Letters

Characterising health care-associated bloodstream infections in public hospitals in Queensland, 2008–2012

Leon J Worth, Ann L Bull and Michael J Richards

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 282

Letters

Characterising health care-associated bloodstream infections in public hospitals in Queensland, 2008–2012

Naomi Runnegar, Damin Si and John Marquess

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 282-283

Perspectives

The inequitable burden of group A streptococcal diseases in Indigenous Australians

Philippa J May, Asha C Bowen and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 201-203 Free

Letters

Ebola outbreak in West Africa: considerations for strengthening Australia’s international health emergency response

Martyn D Kirk, Stephanie Davis and Kerri Viney

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 236-237

Research

Low HIV testing rates among people with a sexually transmissible infection diagnosis in remote Aboriginal communities

James S Ward, Amalie Dyda, Skye McGregor, Alice Rumbold, Linda Garton, Basil Donovan, John M Kaldor and Rebecca J Guy

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (4): 168-171 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Stroke in a young man with untreated HIV infection and neurosyphilis

Abhay R Venkat, Jason Wenderoth, Louise Evans and Cecilia Cappelen-Smith

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (2): 58-59