The Australian Epidemic, 1914

The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918. Volume II

The rise and fall of infectious diseases: Australian perspectives, 1914-2014.

Australia has been fortunate in its experience with infectious diseases over the past century. By the 1960s, many communicable diseases were controlled through a combination of high living standards, progressive adoption of vaccines and antimicrobial treatment. Australian medical scientists have made substantial contributions to the understanding of many historically significant communicable di...

The Medical Annual, 1914

This year-book is now recognised to be indispensable by most medical men, and we have no hesitation in recommending the annual volume for 1914. The present volume is some 100 pages larger than the previous one owing to the large number of details added, especially in technique, diagnostic, clinical and surgical. The tropical diseases are in the hands of Sir L. Rogers and this is enough to say t...

First Australian isolation of epidemic Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027.

We report the first isolation in Australia of a hypervirulent epidemic strain of Clostridium difficile, PCR ribotype 027. It was isolated from a 43-year-old woman with a permanent ileostomy, who appears to have been infected while travelling in the United States. The isolate was positive for toxin A, toxin B and binary toxin, and resistant to fluoroquinolone antimicrobials, and had characterist...

An epidemic of renal failure among Australian Aboriginals.

OBJECTIVE To define recent trends (1993-1996) in incidence of endstage renal disease (ESRD) among Australian Aboriginal people in the Top End of the Northern Territory (NT). DESIGN Analysis of hospital and clinical records of the Darwin-based ESRD treatment program from 1993 to 1996 and comparison with data accumulated since 1978. PARTICIPANTS All people entering the ESRD treatment program ...