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Infectious diseases

Clinical focus

Australian Diabetes Foot Network: management of diabetes-related foot ulceration — a clinical update

Shan M Bergin, Joel M Gurr, Bernard P Allard, Emma L Holland, Mark W Horsley, Maarten C Kamp, Peter A Lazzarini, Vanessa L Nube, Ashim K Sinha, Jason T Warnock, Jan B Alford and Paul R Wraight

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 226-229 Free

Letters

Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates

M Lindsay Grayson and Philip L Russo

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 212-214

Letters

Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates

Elliott G Playford, David McDougall and Mary-Louise McLaws

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 214

Letters

Testing the golden rules of infectious diseases: staphylococcal bacteriuria is predictive of staphylococcal bacteraemia

Janine M Trevillyan and Denis Spelman

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 149-150

Letters

Opportunistic serological surveillance for Murray Valley encephalitis virus in Victoria, February–May 2011

Joseph S Doyle, Suellen Nicholson, Jennifer A Leydon, Rodney J Moran and Michael G Catton

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 150

Research

A multicentre evaluation of two intensive care unit triage protocols for use in an influenza pandemic

Winston K Cheung, John Myburgh, Ian M Seppelt, Michael J Parr, Nikki Blackwell, Shannon DeMonte, Kalpesh Gandhi, Larissa Hoyling, Priya Nair, Melissa Passer, Claire Reynolds, Nicholas M Saunders, Manoj K Saxena and Govindasamy Thanakrishnan, on behalf of the Influenza Pandemic ICU Triage (iPIT) Study Investigators

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 178-181 Free

Letters

Two forms of immunological recovery and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in one patient

Sarah L McGuinness, Joseph S Doyle and Alan C Street

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (2): 92-93

Letters

Public disclosure of health care-associated infections in Australia: quality improvement or parody?

Leon J Worth, Karin A Thursky and Monica A Slavin

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (1): 29 Free

Letters

Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates

E Geoffrey Playford, David McDougall and Mary-Louise McLaws

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (1): 29-30 Free

Research

Evaluating the chlamydia and gonorrhoea screening program in the Humanitarian Entrant Health Service, Western Australia

Veronica C Hoad and Aesen Thambiran

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (1): 47-49 Free

Letters

Influenza vaccination of the egg-allergic individual: 2012 update

Raymond J Mullins and Michael S Gold

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (11): 682

Research

Gentamicin ototoxicity: a 23-year selected case series of 103 patients

Rebekah M Ahmed, Imelda P Hannigan, Hamish G MacDougall, Raymond C Chan and G Michael Halmagyi

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (11): 701-704 Free

Case reports / Lessons from practice

Two cases of asymptomatic HBV “vaccine breakthrough” infection detected in blood donors screened for HBV DNA

Clive R Seed, Ngaire T Jones, Anne M Pickworth and Wendy R Graham

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (10): 651-652 Free

Research

Splenectomy sequelae: an analysis of infectious outcomes among adults in Victoria

Claire Dendle, Vijaya Sundararajan, Tim Spelman, Damien Jolley and Ian Woolley

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 582-586 Free

Research

Splenectomy and sepsis

David F M Looke and Naomi J Runnegar

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 587 Free

Research

Sporotrichosis (Sporothrix schenckii infection) in the New South Wales mid-north coast, 2000–2010

Shobini Sivagnanam, Aiveen M Bannan, Sharon C-A Chen and Anna P Ralph

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 588-590 Free

Case reports

Brain abscess due to Propionibacterium propionicum in Eisenmenger syndrome

Anthony M T Chau, Lileane L Xu, Jacob M Fairhall, Joga Chaganti and Brendan J McMullan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 525-526

Letters

Spirochaetes and sunshine: leptospirosis in the aftermath of the Queensland floods

Hugh Wright, Katie Goot and Benjamin Rogers

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 500-502

Letters

Knowledge and access are not enough: HIV risk and prevention among people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Sydney

Augustine D Asante and Henrike Körner

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 502

Snapshot

Extensive cystic hydatid disease

Melanie C Figtree, Matthew R Watts, Robyn Timmins, Ross Smith and Bernard J Hudson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 520

Letters

Congenital toxoplasmosis over 10 years in a low-incidence population

Jude C Jayamaha, Peter Robertson and William D Rawlinson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (7): 443-444

Letters

Case series of four patients with strongyloides after occupational exposure

Hannah M Soulsby, Saliya Hewagama and Stephen Brady

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (7): 444

Letters

Neurocysticercosis in Australia: still free of autochthonous cases?

Oscar H Del Brutto

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 385

Research

Twenty-six years of enteric fever in Australia: an epidemiological analysis of antibiotic resistance

Robert J Commons, Emma McBryde, Mary Valcanis, Joan Powling, Alan Street and Geoff Hogg

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 332-336 Free

Perspectives

Does antibiotic use in farmed animals pose a risk to human health? – Yes

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 302