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Infectious diseases

Research

Variable uptake of recommended interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Australia, 1982–2005

Michelle L Giles, Ann M McDonald, Elizabeth J Elliott, John B Ziegler, Margaret E Hellard, Sharon R Lewin and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 151-154 Free

Notable cases

Paediatric lobar lung transplantation: addressing the paucity of donor organs

Dominic T Keating, Glen P Westall, Silvana F Marasco, Jacquie H Burton, Mark R Buckland, Colin F Robertson, Trevor J Williams and Gregory I Snell

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 173-175 Free

Letters

Recognition of USA300 isolates of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Australia

Thomas Gottlieb, Wei-Yuen Su, John Merlino and Elaine Y-L Cheong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 179-180

Public health

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland: an update, 2005–2007

Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys and Denise M Murphy

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 43-46 Free

Research

High prevalence of tinea capitis in newly arrived migrants at an English-language school, Melbourne, 2005

Michelle E McPherson, Alan J Woodgyer, Kleete Simpson and Alvin H Chong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 13-16 Free

Letters

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): “missing the wood for the trees”

Raymond C Chan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 733-734

Letters

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): “missing the wood for the trees”

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 733-734

Letters

Paragonimiasis: an unusual case of haemoptysis

Murad G Ibrahim, Richard Bunter, Stanley Rajasooriar and Francis Thien

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 734-735

Letters

A case of periportal fibrosis in a Sudanese refugee

James Daveson and Graeme Macdonald

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 677-678

Research

Significant reductions in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and clinical isolates associated with a multisite, hand hygiene culture-change program and subsequent successful statewide roll-out

M Lindsay Grayson, Lisa J Jarvie, Rhea Martin, Paul D R Johnson, Meryanda E Jodoin, Celene McMullan, Roger H C Gregory, Kaye Bellis, Katie Cunnington, Fiona L Wilson, Diana Quin and Anne-Maree Kelly

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 633-640 Free

Letters

Dangerous liaisons — syphilis and HIV in Victoria

David E Leslie, Nasra Higgins and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 676-677

The Great Divide

Racial disparities in infection-related mortality at Alice Springs Hospital, Central Australia, 2000–2005

Lloyd J Einsiedel, Liselle A Fernandes and Richard J Woodman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 568-571 Free

Research

The burden of influenza in healthy children in South Australia

Katina D’Onise and Jane C A Raupach

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 510-513 Free

Public health

Persistent risk of tuberculosis in migrants a decade after arrival in Australia

Michelle E McPherson, Heath Kelly, Mahomed S Patel and David Leslie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 528-531 Free

Notable cases

An Australian case of Streptococcus suis toxic shock syndrome associated with occupational exposure to animal carcasses

Adrian R Tramontana, Maryza Graham, Vincent Sinickas and Narin Bak

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 538-539 Free

Letters

Necrotising pneumonia due to Panton–Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

Ada S-Z Cheung, Craig A Aboltins, John R Daffy and Peter A Stanley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 373

Research

Escherichia coli bacteraemia in Canberra: incidence and clinical features

Karina J Kennedy, Jan L Roberts and Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 209-213 Free

Notable cases

Parasitic myositis in tropical Australia

Ron Basuroy, Robert Pennisi, Thomas Robertson, Robert Norton, John Stokes, Jon Reimers and John Archer

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 254-256 Free

Obituary

Ronald Francis (“Roman”) Rossleigh MD, MB BS, FRACGP

Monica A Rossleigh

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 246 Free

Clinical update

The prevention and management of herpes zoster

Anthony L Cunningham, Judith Breuer, Dominic E Dwyer, David W Gronow, Robert D Helme, John C Litt, Myron J Levin and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 171-176 Free

Public health

Recurrence of tuberculosis at a Sydney chest clinic between 1994 and 2006: reactivation or reinfection?

Claudia C Dobler, Guy B Marks, Sheila E Simpson and A B Hamish Crawford

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 153-155 Free

Viewpoint

To routinely offer testing for HIV infection in all cases of tuberculosis: a rational clinical approach?

Carol R Emerson and Jeffrey J Post

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 162-163 Free

Lessons from practice

Granulomatous hepatitis: tuberculosis or not?

Eu Jin Lim, Paul D R Johnson, Peter Crowley and Paul J Gow

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 166-167 Free

For debate

Chlamydia screening — Australia should strive to achieve what others have not

Jane S Hocking, Jennifer Walker, David Regan, Marcus Y Chen and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 106-108 Free

Research

What’s hanging around your neck? Pathogenic bacteria on identity badges and lanyards

Despina Kotsanas, Carmel Scott, Elizabeth E Gillespie, Tony M Korman and Rhonda L Stuart

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 5-8 Free