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Infectious diseases

For debate

Point-of-care tests for lower respiratory tract infections

Patrick G P Charles and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 36-39 Free

Letters

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in Brazil

Vitorino M dos Santos, Flávio L Noronha, Érica C Vicentina and Camila C Lima

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 63-64

For debate

Point-of-care testing for community-acquired pneumonia: do we have all the answers?

Dominic E Dwyer and Vitali Sintchenko

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 40-42 Free

Letters

Cost of hepatitis A vaccine: $70. Mounting your own antibody response to hepatitis A before your overseas holiday: priceless

Jake Shortt, Denis Spelman and Erica M Wood

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 58

Letters

Intradermal rabies vaccine

Anthony Gherardin and Sonny Lau

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 58-59

Letters

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: an eponymous ulcer

Derek H Meyers

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 63

Editorials

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change

Peter J Collignon, M Lindsay Grayson and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 4-5

Snapshot

Waterlily sign

Maneesh Khanna, Sandeep Chauhan, Usha Dalal and Sarabmeet S Lehl

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 654 Free

Letters

Potential impact of AUSFTA on Australia’s blood supply

Albert Farrugia

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 660

Diagnostic dilemmas

Brucellosis mimicking Henoch–Schönlein purpura

David Massasso and Kathryn Gibson

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 602-603

Lessons from practice

A fatal case of necrotising pneumonia due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

David C Risson, Enda D O’Connor, Roger W Guard, Jacqueline M Schooneveldt and Graeme R Nimmo

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 479-480 Free

Clinical update

Amoebiasis: current status in Australia

Sebastiaan J van Hal, Damien J Stark, Rashmi Fotedar, Debbie Marriott, John T Ellis and Jock L Harkness

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (8): 412-416 Free

Lessons from practice

An Australian case of New World cutaneous leishmaniasis

Pamela Konecny and Damien J Stark

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (6): 315-317 Free

Letters

Hendra virus infection in a veterinarian

Paul Prociv

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (6): 325-326

Letters

Characteristics of Australian women who test positive for HIV: implications for giving test results

Carol A Hopkins, Rosey A Cummings, Tim R H Read and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (6): 327

Viewpoint

Why do we not yet have combination chemotherapy for chronic hepatitis B?

Joseph J Sasadeusz, Stephen L Locarnini and Graeme Macdonald

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (4): 204-206 Free

Letters

A chest wall swelling in a young girl

Parvaiz A Koul, Abdul Wahid, Ghulam N Lone and Tariq A Bhat

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (4): 213

Editorials

Q fever: the long journey to control by vaccination

Barrie Marmion

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (4): 164-166

Public health

Australia’s century of meningococcal disease: development and the changing ecology of an accidental pathogen

Mahomed S Patel

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (3): 136-141 Free

New Drugs, Old Drugs

Ten years of highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection

Luke F Chen, Jennifer Hoy and Sharon R Lewin

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (3): 146-151 Free

Letters

An unusual cause of severe metabolic acidosis

Mark A Boyd and Stephen Hedger

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (3): 158-159

Letters

An unusual cause of severe metabolic acidosis

John V Peter, Natasha Rogers and Sandra L Peake

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (3): 158-159

Editorials

Impact of meningococcal C conjugate vaccine use in Australia

Robert Booy, Jane Jelfs, Haitham El Bashir and Michael D Nissen

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (3): 108-109

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli or Bairnsdale ulcer): challenges in developing management strategies

Kingsley Asiedu and Mark Wansbrough-Jones

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (2): 55-56

Letters

Should medical students be routinely offered BCG vaccination?

Maryza Graham, Tanya M Howley, Robert J Pierce and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (2): 98-99