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Infectious diseases

For debate

Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in Australia: time to amend infection control measures for pituitary hormone recipients?

Alison Boyd, Genevieve M J A Klug, Lawrence B Schonberger, Amelia McGlade, Jean-Philippe Brandel, Colin L Masters and Steven J Collins

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): 366-369 Free

Editorials

Australia’s health 2010: an overview of infectious diseases

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): 256-257

Letters

Closing the gap — better health intelligence is required

Anthony D Merritt, April R Roberts-Witteveen and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): 309 Free

Letters

Seizures related to praziquantel therapy in neurocysticercosis

Saliya S Hewagama, Jonathan D Darby, Harsha Sheorey and John R Daffy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (4): 246-247

Letters

Subconjunctival dog heartworm

Elaine W Chong, Harsha Sheorey, Cheng Hean Lo, David M Spratt and Enrique Graue-Hernández

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 184

Correction

MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?

Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 192

Letters

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?

Keryn J Christiansen

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 62-63

Viewpoint

Influenza surveillance in Australia: we need to do more than count

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Kristina A Grant, Simon H Williams, Cheryl Bletchly, Michael G Catton, David W Smith and Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 43-45 Free

Lessons from practice

Salmonella Rubislaw gastroenteritis linked to a pet lizard

Cameron R M Moffatt, Antony R Lafferty, Sara Khan, Radomir Krsteski, Mary Valcanis, Joan Powling and Mark Veitch

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 54-55 Free

Letters

A risk for returned travellers: the “post-antibiotic era”

Geethanie A T P Fernando, Peter J Collignon and Jan M Bell

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 59

Letters

A rare granulomatous reaction to Q fever vaccination following influenza vaccination

Deborah Burnett and Leslie Burnett

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 60

Letters

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?

Frank Shann

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 62-63

Editorials

MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?

Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 5-7

Letters

Managing outbreaks of viral respiratory infection in aged care facilities — challenges and difficulties during the first pandemic wave

Gulam Khandaker, Bridget Doyle, Dominic E Dwyer and Robert Booy

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 722

Letters

A pandemic response to a disease of predominantly seasonal intensity

Rodney C Givney

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 722-723

Letters

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza, pregnancy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Susan A Welch, Leone N Snowden and Hergen Buscher

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 668

Pandemic influenza

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in an urban Aboriginal medical service

Ana Herceg, Peter G Sharp, Christine G Arthur and Julie A Tongs

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 623 Free

Defining the gap

Two nations: racial disparities in bloodstream infections recorded at Alice Springs Hospital, central Australia, 2001–2005

Lloyd J Einsiedel and Richard J Woodman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 567-571 Free

At the frontline

Hospitalisation of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory for lower respiratory illness in the first year of life

Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Paul J Torzillo and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 586-590 Free

Pandemic influenza

Disproportionate impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on Indigenous people in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory

Shaun M Flint, Joshua S Davis, Jiunn-Yih Su, Erin P Oliver-Landry, Benjamin A Rogers, Aaron Goldstein, Jane H Thomas, Uma Parameswaran, Colin Bigham, Kevin Freeman, Paul Goldrick and Steven Y C Tong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 617-622 Free

Letters

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

William B Grant

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Letters

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

Joshua S Davis, Allen C Cheng, Bart J Currie and Nicholas M Anstey

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Correction

Early evidence for direct and indirect effects of the infant rotavirus vaccine program in Queensland

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Lisa Hall, Frances A Birrell, Karen V Peterson, Christine E Selvey, Theo P Sloots, Michael D Nissen and Keith Grimwood

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 525 Free

Research

Establishment of a successful assessment and treatment service for Australian prison inmates with chronic hepatitis C

Leng Boonwaat, Paul S Haber, Michael H Levy and Andrew R Lloyd

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 496-500 Free

Letters

Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?

David W Smith, David J Speers and Rodney A Bowman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 541-542