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Infectious diseases

Research

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

Joshua S Davis, Gail B Cross, Patrick G P Charles, Bart J Currie, Nicholas M Anstey and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 133-136 Free

Health care

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery in Australia

Timothy P Haydon, Jeffrey J Presneill and Megan S Robertson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 141-143 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Infection control of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in hospitals — a logistic challenge

Uma Devi and Kirsty L Buising

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 164-165

Letters

Norovirus diarrhoeal disease in infants and children

Alison M Kesson, Nicola Benwell and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 108-109

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

A pandemic response to a disease of predominantly seasonal intensity

Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 81-83 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Hospitalised adult patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Melbourne, Australia

Justin T Denholm, Claire L Gordon, Paul D Johnson, Saliya S Hewagama, Rhonda L Stuart, Craig Aboltins, Cameron Jeremiah, James Knox, Garry P Lane, Adrian R Tramontana, Monica A Slavin, Thomas R Schulz, Michael Richards, Chris J Birch and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 84-86 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

The rational clinician in a pandemic setting

David A Bradt and Joseph Epstein

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 87-89 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Comparison of adult patients hospitalised with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza during the “PROTECT” phase of the pandemic response

Ya-Shu Chang, Sebastiaan J van Hal, Peter M Spencer, Iain B Gosbell and Peter W Collett

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 90-93 Free

For debate

Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?

Miles H Beaman and Michael J Leung

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 102-104 Free

Correction

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Western Australia: emergence of serotype 19A

Carolien M Giele, Anthony D Keil, Deborah Lehmann and Paul G Van Buynder

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 52

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Acceptance of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination by the Australian public

Keith Eastwood, David N Durrheim, Alison Jones and Michelle Butler

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 33-36 Free

Lessons from practice

Spleen registry may help reduce the incidence of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in Victoria

Justin T Denholm, Penelope A Jones, Denis W Spelman, Paul U Cameron and Ian J Woolley

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 49-50 Free

Departments

ASID (HICSIG) position statement: infection control guidelines for patients with influenza-like illnesses, including pandemic (H1N1) influenza 2009, in Australian health care facilities

Rhonda L Stuart, Allen C Cheng, Caroline L Marshall and John K Ferguson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 667

True stories

Plague in a time of war: an experience in South Vietnam

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 671-673

Christmas offerings

Needlestick injury with smallpox vaccine

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 657

Conference report

Trouble in paradise

Timothy J J Inglis, Ronan J Murray and Michael Watson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 597-598 Free

History

Simultaneous epidemics of influenza and malaria in the Australian Army in Palestine in 1918

G Dennis Shanks

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 654-657 Free

Book reviews

The culture of contagion

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 658

Notable cases

“Paradoxical” immune-mediated reactions to Mycobacterium ulcerans during antibiotic treatment: a result of treatment success, not failure

Daniel P O’Brien, Michael E Robson, Peter P Callan and Anthony H McDonald

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 564-566 Free

Letters

Rates of hospitalisation for acute respiratory illness and the emergence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus in the Hunter New England Area Health Service

Fatimah S Dawood, Craig B Dalton, David N Durrheim and Kirsty G Hope

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 573-574

Pandemic (H1N1)2009

Impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on critical care capacity in Victoria

Martin E Lum, Alison J McMillan, Chris W Brook, Rosemary Lester and Leonard S Piers

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (9): 502-506 Free

Position statement

ASID (HICSIG) position statement: infection control guidelines for patients with influenza-like illnesses, including pandemic (H1N1) influenza 2009, in Australian health care facilities

Rhonda L Stuart, Allen C Cheng, Caroline L Marshall and John K Ferguson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 454-458 Free

Letters

Is viral nucleic acid testing of eye donors cost-effective?

Paul R Badenoch and Douglas J Coster

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 408

Letters

Prolonged varicella viraemia and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome following varicella vaccination of a health care worker

Sam S Mehr and Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 413-414

Editorials

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias: time to act

Peter J Collignon and Marilyn Cruickshank

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 363-364