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Infectious diseases

Notable cases

Relapsing vivax malaria despite chemoprophylaxis in two blood donors who had travelled to Papua New Guinea

Clive R Seed, Jacqueline T Coughlin, Anne M Pickworth, Robert J Harley and Anthony J Keller

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 471-473 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania donovani in a patient with advanced HIV infection

Samuel C Hume, Craig A Aboltins, Karin A Thursky, John R Daffy and Peter A Stanley

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 474-475

Letters

Sudden bilateral deafness and Chlamydophila infection

Andrew F Whyte and Richard Yu

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 478

Diagnostic dilemma

Late-stage human African trypanosomiasis in a Sudanese refugee

Paul Cherian, Ralph K Junckerstorff, David Rosen, Prasad Kumarasinghe, Alan Morling, Philip Tuch, Sonja Raven, Ronan J Murray and Christopher H Heath

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 417-419

Editorials

Swine flu — lessons learnt in Australia

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 364-365

Research

Examining the knowledge of and attitudes to pandemic influenza among general practice staff

Holly Seale, Kirsten F Ward, Nick Zwar, Debbie Van, Julie Leask and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 378-380 Free

Lessons from practice

Progressive meningoencephalitis in a Sudanese immigrant

Adam P Liu, Shaun Chou, Lavier Gomes, Thomas Ng, Elizabeth L Salisbury, Grant L Walker and Donald R Packham

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 413-416 Free

Notable cases

Chronic cutaneous ulcers secondary to Haemophilus ducreyi infection

Trisha N Peel, Deepak Bhatti, Jim C De Boer, Ivan Stratov and Denis W Spelman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 348-350 Free

Letters

Microbiological diagnostic tests for community-acquired pneumonia are useful

Adrian R Tramontana and Vincent Sinickas

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 235-236

Letters

Encysted seizures: status epilepticus in a recently resettled refugee child

Juliette M Lucey, James McCarthy and David P Burgner

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 237

Editorials

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

Keryn J Christiansen

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 117-118

Research

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

Joshua S Davis, Gail B Cross, Patrick G P Charles, Bart J Currie, Nicholas M Anstey and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 133-136 Free

Health care

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery in Australia

Timothy P Haydon, Jeffrey J Presneill and Megan S Robertson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 141-143 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Infection control of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in hospitals — a logistic challenge

Uma Devi and Kirsty L Buising

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 164-165

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Oseltamivir-resistant pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in a severely ill patient: the first Australian case

David J Speers, Simon H Williams, Mary Pinder, Harry R Moody, Aeron C Hurt and David W Smith

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 166-168

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Hospitalised adult patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Melbourne, Australia

Justin T Denholm, Claire L Gordon, Paul D Johnson, Saliya S Hewagama, Rhonda L Stuart, Craig Aboltins, Cameron Jeremiah, James Knox, Garry P Lane, Adrian R Tramontana, Monica A Slavin, Thomas R Schulz, Michael Richards, Chris J Birch and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 84-86 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

The rational clinician in a pandemic setting

David A Bradt and Joseph Epstein

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 87-89 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Comparison of adult patients hospitalised with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza during the “PROTECT” phase of the pandemic response

Ya-Shu Chang, Sebastiaan J van Hal, Peter M Spencer, Iain B Gosbell and Peter W Collett

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 90-93 Free

For debate

Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?

Miles H Beaman and Michael J Leung

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 102-104 Free

Letters

Norovirus diarrhoeal disease in infants and children

Alison M Kesson, Nicola Benwell and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 108-109

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

A pandemic response to a disease of predominantly seasonal intensity

Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 81-83 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Acceptance of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination by the Australian public

Keith Eastwood, David N Durrheim, Alison Jones and Michelle Butler

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 33-36 Free

Lessons from practice

Spleen registry may help reduce the incidence of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in Victoria

Justin T Denholm, Penelope A Jones, Denis W Spelman, Paul U Cameron and Ian J Woolley

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 49-50 Free

Correction

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Western Australia: emergence of serotype 19A

Carolien M Giele, Anthony D Keil, Deborah Lehmann and Paul G Van Buynder

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 52

True stories

Plague in a time of war: an experience in South Vietnam

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 671-673