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Infectious diseases

True stories

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

John S Whitehall

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

Christmas offerings

Needlestick injury with smallpox vaccine

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 657

Conference report

Trouble in paradise

Timothy J J Inglis, Ronan J Murray and Michael Watson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 597-598 Free

History

Simultaneous epidemics of influenza and malaria in the Australian Army in Palestine in 1918

G Dennis Shanks

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 654-657 Free

Book reviews

The culture of contagion

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 658

Notable cases

“Paradoxical” immune-mediated reactions to Mycobacterium ulcerans during antibiotic treatment: a result of treatment success, not failure

Daniel P O’Brien, Michael E Robson, Peter P Callan and Anthony H McDonald

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 564-566 Free

Letters

Rates of hospitalisation for acute respiratory illness and the emergence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus in the Hunter New England Area Health Service

Fatimah S Dawood, Craig B Dalton, David N Durrheim and Kirsty G Hope

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 573-574

Pandemic (H1N1)2009

Impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on critical care capacity in Victoria

Martin E Lum, Alison J McMillan, Chris W Brook, Rosemary Lester and Leonard S Piers

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (9): 502-506 Free

Position statement

ASID (HICSIG) position statement: infection control guidelines for patients with influenza-like illnesses, including pandemic (H1N1) influenza 2009, in Australian health care facilities

Rhonda L Stuart, Allen C Cheng, Caroline L Marshall and John K Ferguson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 454-458 Free

Letters

Is viral nucleic acid testing of eye donors cost-effective?

Paul R Badenoch and Douglas J Coster

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 408

Letters

Prolonged varicella viraemia and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome following varicella vaccination of a health care worker

Sam S Mehr and Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 413-414

Editorials

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias: time to act

Peter J Collignon and Marilyn Cruickshank

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 363-364

Letters

Chromobacterium violaceum endocarditis and hepatic abscesses treated successfully with meropenem and ciprofloxacin

Richard N Pearson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 416

Research

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a major cause of mortality in Australia and New Zealand

John D Turnidge, Despina Kotsanas, Wendy Munckhof, Sally Roberts, Catherine M Bennett, Graeme R Nimmo, Geoffrey W Coombs, Ronan J Murray, Benjamin Howden, Paul D R Johnson, Kate Dowling and on behalf of the Australia New Zealand Cooperative on Outcomes in Staphylococcal Sepsis

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 368-373 Free

Book review

The truth about AIDS

David L Bradford

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 412

Health care

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia as a quality indicator for hospital infection control

Claire Dendle, Rhea D Martin, Donna R Cameron, Elizabeth A Grabsch, Barrie C Mayall, M Lindsay Grayson and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 389-392 Free

Public health

A prolonged mumps outbreak among highly vaccinated Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia

Revle D Bangor-Jones, Gary K Dowse, Carolien M Giele, Paul G van Buynder, Meredith M Hodge and Mary M Whitty

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 398-401 Free

Research

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Victoria: a 10-year review

Caroline J Lavender, Lynne K Brown and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (6): 315-318 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

The community’s attitude towards swine flu and pandemic influenza

Holly Seale, Mary-Louise McLaws, Anita E Heywood, Kirsten F Ward, Chris P Lowbridge, Debbie Van, Jan Gralton and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 267-269 Free

Letters

Australia’s influenza containment plan and the swine flu epidemic in Victoria

Michael G Catton, Julian D Druce and Chris J Birch

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 288

Letters

A pandemic problem with public transport

Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 288-289

Letters

Melioidosis in south-eastern Queensland

Roger W Guard, Peter J Morero, Win Yi and Maureen J Mackay

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 290

Letters

Severe Queensland tick typhus complicated by diabetes in south-eastern Queensland

Theo F Birch and Michael Muller

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 290-291

Notable cases

Imported West Nile virus encephalitis in an Israeli tourist

Benjamin A Rogers, Linda Hueston and Irani Ratnam

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (4): 232-234 Free

Letters

Challenging respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis

Abdullah A Yousef and Adam Jaffé

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (4): 236-237