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Infectious diseases

Letters

Aseptic insertion of central venous lines to reduce bacteraemia

Chantal S Ferguson, Victoria C D’Abrera, Helen J Van Gessel and Dorothy Jones

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 448-449

Clinical focus

Fever and antipyresis in infection

Paul J Young, Manoj K Saxena and Richard W Beasley

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 458-459 Free

Case reports

A woman with partial seizures and an unusual cerebral mass

Archie A Darbar and Luke A Coyle

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 473-475 Free

Perspectives

New aspirations: the debate on aspiration pneumonia treatment guidelines

Jason C Kwong, Benjamin P Howden and Patrick G P Charles

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 380-381 Free

Letters

Interferon-α-related microscopic polyangiitis in a patient with chronic hepatitis C infection

Stephen Y Oh, Brett E Jones and Suran L Fernando

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 385-386

Letters

Challenges in postexposure prophylaxis of a vaccinated bat carer

Heidi J Carroll, Bradley J McCall, David Looke and Bruce Fraser

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 323-324

Letters

The German Escherichia coli outbreak — could it happen here?

Martyn D Kirk

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 325-326

Letters

Public reporting of infection rates as quality indicators

Allen C Cheng, Pauline Bass, Carlos Scheinkestel and Tim Leong

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 326-327

Clinical focus

Seasonal influenza vaccination in Australian hospital health care workers: a review

Holly Seale and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 336-338 Free

Research

Reusable venesection tourniquets: a potential source of hospital transmission of multiresistant organisms

Angie N Pinto, Thuy Phan, Gabriela Sala, Elaine Y L Cheong, Steven Siarakas and Thomas Gottlieb

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 276-279 Free

Editorials

Hendra virus

Jeannette R Young, Christine E Selvey and Rick Symons

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 250-251

Letters

A no-fault compensation scheme for serious adverse events attributed to vaccination

Mark R Nelson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 263

Notable cases

Acute glomerulonephritis in a child with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and multibacillary leprosy

Lachlan J McIver, Shaun T Parish, Samuel P Jones, Alexander N Kippin and Timothy J Furlong

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (3): 150-152 Free

Letters

Eliminating syphilis in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Francis J Bowden

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (3): 158 Free

Position statement

Recommendations for managing paediatric empyema thoracis

Roxanne E Strachan and Adam Jaffé, on behalf of the Australian Research Network in Empyema (ARNiE)

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 95

Notable cases

Herpes simplex encephalitis presenting after steroid treatment of panuveitis

K Nadia Wittles, Lucy A Goold and Jagjit S Gilhotra

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 87-88 Free

Editorials

A no-fault compensation scheme for serious adverse events attributed to vaccination

Heath A Kelly, Clare Looker and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 4-5

Notable cases

Gnathostomiasis in remote northern Western Australia: the first confirmed cases acquired in Australia

Cameron J Jeremiah, Chanad S Harangozo and Andrew J Fuller

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 42-44 Free

Letters

Ensuring safety of the 2011 trivalent influenza vaccine in young children

Christopher C Blyth, Tracy Y Markus, Paul V Effler and Peter C Richmond

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 52

Letters

Migratory lung lesions in an elderly man

Carl A Kennedy, David Gillis and Richard C W Wong

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 54-55

Letters

The natural history of an infectious disease: MacFarlane Burnet’s contribution to the epidemiology of poliomyelitis

Colin L Crawford

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 671-672

Research

Congenital cytomegalovirus — time to diagnosis, management and clinical sequelae in Australia: opportunities for earlier identification

Brendan J McMullan, Pamela Palasanthiran, Cheryl A Jones, Beverley M Hall, Peter W Robertson, Jonathan Howard and William D Rawlinson

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 625-629 Free

Notable cases

Murine typhus returns to New South Wales: a case of isolated meningoencephalitis with raised intracranial pressure

Neil G Simon, Phillip D Cremer and Stephen R Graves

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 652-654 Free

Lessons from practice

Lymphatic filariasis in Australia: an update on presentation, diagnosis and treatment

Cameron J Jeremiah, Craig A Aboltins and Peter A Stanley

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 655-657 Free

Research

Assessment and management of latent tuberculosis infection in a refugee population in the Northern Territory

James M Trauer and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 579-582 Free