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Infectious diseases

Research letters

Silent but deadly: patients with enterococcal bacteraemia should be assessed for colorectal neoplasia

Eugene Athan, Ivana Cabiltes, Sarah Coghill and Steven J Bowe

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 86 Free

Research letters

Increased incidence of community‐associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in Victoria and Western Australia, 2011–2016

Nabeel Imam, Simone Tempone, Paul K Armstrong, Rebecca McCann, Sandra Johnson, Leon J Worth and Michael J Richards

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 87-88 Free

Reflections / Medical history

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865): herald of hygienic medicine

Edward A Carson and Nadeem Toodayan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 480-482

Letters

Health protection and Australian prisons, 2018

Michael H Levy and Carla J Treloar

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (10): 460-461

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Menagerie: Bartonella henselae chorioretinitis in the setting of diverse animal exposure

Fumitaka Nonaka, Susan M Carden, Coen Butters and Christine Chen

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (9): 284-286

Letters

Bilateral primary meningococcal conjunctivitis in an Indigenous child

James Sterrey, Farshad Abedi and Tim RM Henderson

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 370

Narrative review

Community-acquired acute meningitis and encephalitis: a narrative review

Miles H Beaman

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (10): 449-454

Medical education / Snapshot

Chromoblastomycosis in immunosuppressed patients

Emily R Sideris and Ludi Ge

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (7): 295

Research

Sepsis incidence and mortality are underestimated in Australian intensive care unit administrative data

Manon Heldens, Marinelle Schout, Naomi E Hammond, Frances Bass, Anthony Delaney and Simon R Finfer

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (6): 255-260 Free

Narrative review

Management of bronchiectasis in adults

Simone K Visser, Peter Bye and Lucy Morgan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 177-183

Letters

An era of untreatable gonorrhoea?

Brett Sutton and Mihaela Ivan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 188

Letters

Tackling the worsening epidemic of Buruli ulcer in Australia in an information void: time for an urgent scientific response

Petra Zimmermann, Adam Finn and Nigel Curtis

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 142

Perspectives

New enhanced influenza vaccines for older Australians: what promise do they hold?

Sarah L Sheridan, Cyra Patel, Kristine Macartney and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 110-112

Letters

Azithromycin for Salmonella infection: don’t presume it works

Alan J Rogers, Gar-hing A Lee and Peter Boan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 98

Perspectives

Priorities for preventing a concentrated HIV epidemic among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

James S Ward, Karen Hawke and Rebecca J Guy

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (1): 56 Free

Perspectives

How antibiotic allergy labels may be harming our most vulnerable patients

Jason A Trubiano, M Lindsay Grayson, Karin A Thursky, Elizabeth J Phillips and Monica A Slavin

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 469-470

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Fulminant meningococcal sepsis due to non-groupable Neisseria meningitidis in a patient receiving eculizumab

Victoria Hall, Rekha Pai Mangalore, Simon He, Kerrie Stevens, Jason A Trubiano, Natasha E Holmes, Benjamin P Howden and Jason C Kwong

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 478-479

Letters

Foreign tick smuggling rickettsia evades Australian border control

Sadid F Khan, Mythili Tadepalli, John Stenos, Stephen R Graves and Tony M Korman

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 505

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Pulmonary extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Melbourne: local control of a global health challenge

Adrian R Tramontana, David E Leslie, Aine Nolan, Maria Globan, Janet M Fyfe, Justin T Denholm and Stephen D Guy

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (10): 428-429

Narrative review

Parechovirus: an important emerging infection in young infants

Philip N Britton, Cheryl A Jones, Kristine Macartney and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (8): 365-369

Perspectives

Tackling the worsening epidemic of Buruli ulcer in Australia in an information void: time for an urgent scientific response

Daniel P O'Brien, Eugene Athan, Kim Blasdell and Paul De Barro

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (7): 287-289

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A severe case of Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) osteomyelitis requiring a below-knee amputation

Michael J Loftus, Nicola Kettleton-Butler, Denton Wade, R Michael Whitby and Paul DR Johnson

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (7): 290-291

Letters

Eradicating hepatitis C from the New South Wales prison system

James Blogg, James Wood, Colette McGrath and Camilla Lobo

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (6): 276

Letters

Emerging infectious disease agents and blood safety in Australia: spotlight on Zika virus

Viroj Wiwanitkit

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (2): 96

Letters

Emerging infectious disease agents and blood safety in Australia: spotlight on Zika virus

Philip Kiely, Erica M Wood and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (2): 96