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Infectious diseases

Editorials

COVID‐19 in children: time for a new strategy

Mary‐Louise McLaws

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 212-213 Free

Perspectives

We are not doing enough to prevent the spread of COVID‐19 and other respiratory viruses in Australian hospitals

Peter AB Wark, C Raina MacIntyre, Scott Bell, Brian Oliver and Guy B Marks

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 152-153.e1 Free

Research

The characteristics of SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive children who presented to Australian hospitals during 2020: a PREDICT network study

Laila F Ibrahim, Doris Tham, Vimuthi Chong, Mark Corden, Simon Craig, Paul Buntine, Shefali Jani, Michael Zhang, Shane George, Amit Kochar, Sharon O’Brien, Karen Robins‐Browne, Shidan Tosif, Andrew Daley, Sarah McNab, Nigel W Crawford, Catherine Wilson and Franz E Babl

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 217-221 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Cerebral gnathostomiasis

Simon Smith, Ian Wilson, Lea Starck, Enzo Binotto, Jennifer Ho and Joshua Hanson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 164-165.e1

Medical education / Snapshot

Purple urine bag syndrome in a patient on haemodialysis

John Wing Li and Kamal Sud

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 166-166.e1

Research letters

Background rates of hospital transfer and death in Australian aged care facilities: estimates to assist interpretation of rates after COVID‐19 vaccination

Hazel J Clothier, Yonatan M Mesfin, Steven Strange and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 180-181 Free

Letters

Schistosomiasis: a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding

Julia Lim, Shweta Sharma and Damian Dowling

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 139-139.e1

Letters

Superspreaders, asymptomatics and COVID‐19 elimination

Camilla Mattiuzzi and Giuseppe Lippi

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 140-140.e1 Free

Letters

Superspreaders, asymptomatics and COVID‐19 elimination

David Kault

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 140-140.e1 Free

Letters

The probability of the 6‐week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Bradley R Crammond and Vishaal Kishore

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 95-95.e1 Free

Perspectives

Are COVID‐19‐safe Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics really possible?

Craig B Dalton and Joanne Taylor

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 54-55.e1 Free

Letters

The probability of the 6‐week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Jason Thompson, Natalie Carvalho and Tony Blakely

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 96-96.e1 Free

Perspectives

Australia needs a prioritised national research strategy for clinical trials in a pandemic: lessons learned from COVID‐19

Asha C Bowen, Steven YC Tong and Joshua S Davis

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 56-58.e1 Free

Perspectives

The landscape of COVID‐19 trials in Australia

Anna Lene Seidler, Mason Aberoumand, Jonathan G Williams, Aidan Tan, Kylie E Hunter and Angela Webster

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 58-61.e1 Free

Research letters

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on routine vaccinations in Victoria

Brynley P Hull, Alexandra J Hendry, Aditi Dey, Kerin Bryant, Catherine Radkowski, Stephen Pellissier, Kristine Macartney and Frank H Beard

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 83-84 Free

Letters

Time to address the neglected burden of group A Streptococcus

Jeffrey W Cannon, Julie Bennett, Michael G Baker and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 94-94.e1

Research letters

Re‐defining the dengue‐receptive area of Queensland after the 2019 dengue outbreak in Rockhampton

Jacina Walker, Alyssa Pyke, Paul Florian, Rachael M Rodney Harris and Gulam Khandaker

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 182-182 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

The first known case of vaccine‐induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia in Australia

Jay Hocking, Sanjeev D Chunilal, Vivien M Chen, Tim Brighton, James Nguyen, Jocelyn Tan, Stephen B Ting and Huyen Tran

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 19-20.e1 Free

Ethics and law

Medico‐legal considerations of mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination for high risk workers

Dev AS Kevat, Danielle CA Panaccio, Sam C Pang, Jessica M Dean, Caitlin C Farmer and Patrick D Mahar

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 22-24.e1 Free

Editorials

An update on the burden of group A streptococcal diseases in Australia and vaccine development

Jeffrey W Cannon and Asha C Bowen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 27-28

Research

Increasing incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Western Australia, particularly among Indigenous people

Cameron M Wright, Rachael Moorin, Glenn Pearson, John R Dyer, Jonathan R Carapetis and Laurens Manning

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 36-41 Free

Research letter

Limited clinical value of early repeat RT‐PCR testing for SARS‐CoV‐2

Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond and Deborah A Williamson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 42-43 Free

Perspectives

Australia must act to prevent airborne transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Zoë Hyde, David Berger and Andrew Miller

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 7-9.e1 Free

Perspectives

Surveillance for SARS‐CoV‐2 variants of concern in the Australian context

Patiyan Andersson, Norelle L Sherry and Benjamin P Howden

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 500-502.e1 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Ureaplasma urealyticum septic oligoarthritis in a patient with severe secondary hypogammaglobulinaemia

Peter Bradhurst, Carlos El‐Haddad, John Ng and Nicolás Urriola

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 506-507.e1