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Medical education 10 Apr 2023

Japanese encephalitis virus: changing the clinical landscape of encephalitis in Australia

Sarah Allen, Celia M Cooper, Ajay Taranath, Allen C Cheng and Philip N Britton

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 344-347

Perspectives 20 Mar 2023

Mpox outbreak in 2022: implications for blood component and donor human milk safety in Australia

Philip Kiely, Veronica C Hoad, Claire E Styles and Iain B Gosbell

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 206-208

Medical education / Lessons from practice 20 Mar 2023

Non‐typhoidal Salmonella myocarditis: a disease manifestation not to be missed

Nilanthy Vigneswaran and Elaine Cheong

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 212-213

Research 20 Mar 2023

Infectious syphilis in women and heterosexual men in major Australian cities: sentinel surveillance data, 2011–2019

Allison Carter, Hamish McManus, James S Ward, Tobias Vickers, Jason Asselin, Greta Baillie, Eric PF Chow, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Christopher Bourne, Anna McNulty, Phillip Read, Kevin Heath, Nathan Ryder, Jenny McCloskey, Christopher Carmody, Heather McCormack, Kate Alexander, Dawn Casey, Mark Stoove, Margaret E Hellard, Basil Donovan and Rebecca J Guy

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 223-228 Free

Research letter 20 Mar 2023

Direct‐acting antiviral treatments in Australia for children with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Jessica A Eldredge, Michael O Stormon, Julia E Clark, Scott Nightingale, Brendan McMullan, Brooke Andersen, Christina Travers and Winita Hardikar

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 229-230 Free

Letters 20 Mar 2023

Clinician alert: toxigenic diphtheria cases across North Queensland are on the rise

Allison Hempenstall, Jay Short, Tonia Marquardt, Valmay Fisher and Janice Johnson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 238-238

Research 20 Mar 2023

Eliminating hepatitis C in Australia: a novel model of hepatitis C testing and treatment for people who inject drugs at a medically supervised injecting facility

Michael B MacIsaac, Bradley Whitton, Adrian Hubble, Shelley Cogger, Matthew Penn, Anthony Weeks, Kasey Elmore, David Pemberton, Jenine Anderson, Rebecca Howard, Una McKeever, Timothy Papaluca, Margaret E Hellard, Mark Stoove, David Wilson, Alisa Pedrana, Joseph Doyle, Nico Clark, Jacinta Holmes and Alexander J Thompson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 256-261 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice 6 Mar 2023

First case of mpox diagnosed in Queensland, Australia: clinical and molecular aspects

Adam Stewart, Sanmarie Schlebusch, Susan Vlack, Jamie McMahon, Mitchell Sullivan, Alyssa Pyke and Krispin Hajkowicz

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 157-159 Free

Editorials 6 Mar 2023

Aged care residents — and everybody else — would benefit from better control of COVID‐19 transmission

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 166-167 Free

Research letter 6 Mar 2023

Neurosyphilis‐related hospital admissions, Australia, 2007–20

Ei T Aung, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Jason J Ong and Eric PF Chow

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 180-181 Free

Letters 20 Feb 2023

Balancing the medical and social needs of children during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Zoë Hyde

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 140-140 Free

Letters 20 Feb 2023

Balancing the medical and social needs of children during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Keith Grimwood and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 140-140 Free

Editorials 20 Feb 2023

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on emergency department presentations: an opportunity for renewal?

Amith Shetty and Jean‐Frederic Levesque

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 116-117 Free

Research 30 Jan 2023

The cost‐effectiveness of universal hepatitis B screening for reaching WHO diagnosis targets in Australia by 2030

Yinzong Xiao, Margaret E Hellard, Alexander J Thompson, Christopher Seaman, Jess Howell and Nick Scott

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 168-173 Free

Research 23 Jan 2023

Factors associated with hospitalisations and deaths of residential aged care residents with COVID‐19 during the Omicron (BA.1) wave in Queensland

Robert J Ellis, Cameron RM Moffatt, Luke T Aaron, Greta Beaverson, Khin Chaw, Corinne Curtis, Rhett Freeman‐Lamb, Deborah Judd, Khadija Khatry, Yee Sum Li, Terry Nash, Bonnie Macfarlane, Karen Slater, Yudish Soonarane, Mark Stickley and Satyamurthy Anuradha

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 174-179 Free

Research 23 Jan 2023

Emergency department presentations during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Queensland (to June 2021): interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben Keijzers, Andrea Marshall, Emma J Hall, Jamie Ranse, Ping Zhang, Gary Grant, Ya‐Ling Huang, Dinesh Palipana, Yang D Teng, Benjamin Gerhardy, Jaimi H Greenslade, Philip Jones and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 120-125 Free

Editorials 16 Jan 2023

Learning from the past to prepare for the future

Douglas Johnson and Megan Anne Rees

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 25-26 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice 16 Jan 2023

An important case of atypical pneumonia

Arvind Yerramilli, Michelle Sam, Aadith Ashok and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 16-17

Medical education / Lessons from practice 12 Dec 2022

Native valve infective endocarditis: a rare complication of rat bite fever caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis

Caitlin Paul, Joseph O'Brien, Sarah Huffam and Daryl Ridley

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 584-585 Free

Research 28 Nov 2022

Associations between COVID‐19 and hospitalisation with respiratory and non‐respiratory conditions: a record linkage study

Stacey L Rowe, Karin Leder, Kylie Dyson, Lalitha Sundaresan, Dennis Wollersheim, Brigid Lynch, Ifrah Abdullahi, Benjamin C Cowie, Nicola Stephens, Terence M Nolan, Sheena G Sullivan, Brett Sutton and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 33-39 Free

Letters 21 Nov 2022