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Infectious diseases

Editor's choice

Short-sightedness puts Australia at risk

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 487 Free

Editorials

Multiresistant Escherichia coli in aged care: the gathering storm

Timothy J J Inglis and Christopher D Beer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 489-490

Letters

Doing the right thing for tuberculosis control in the Torres Strait Islands

Anastasios Konstantinos, Graham Simpson, Tania C Sorrell and Ben J Marais

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 512

Clinical focus

Cross-border patients with tuberculosis

Paul N Reynolds, John D Turnidge, Thomas Gottlieb and Michael J Moore

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 523-524

Research

Prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms in residential aged care facilities

Rhonda L Stuart, Despina Kotsanas, Brooke Webb, Susan Vandergraaf, Elizabeth E Gillespie, Geoffrey G Hogg and Tony M Korman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 530-533 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

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

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

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

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

Letters

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

Mark R Nelson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 263

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

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

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

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

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

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