Severe dengue fever is usually associated with secondary infection by a dengue virus (DENV) serotype (1 to 4) that is different to the serotype of the primary infection. Dengue outbreaks only occur following importations of DENV in Cairns, Australia. However, the majority of imported cases do not result in autochthonous transmission in Cairns. Although DENV transmission is strongly associated w...

Before the advent of effective chemotherapy, pneumococcal meningitis was not only a fatal disease, but one that ran its full course with great rapidity. Cases invariably came to necropsy within 10 days of the onset of the illness and usually very much sooner (Cairns and Russell, 1946). Although sulphonamides alone had little effect on the ultimate mortality the infection was often partially sup...

OF COMMUNICATION ON ZYMOTIC DISEASES IN RELATION TO OBSTETRICS. By Dr Thomas Cairns.

1 TNFα Mechanically Sensitizes Masseter Muscle Nociceptors by 2 Increasing Prostaglandin E2 Levels. 3 4 5 Akhlaq W. Hakim, Xudong Dong, Brian E. Cairns 6 7 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 8 V6T 1Z3, Canada 9 10 11 12 13 14 Running title: TNFα-induced nociceptor sensitization 15 16 17 18 19 20 Correspondence should be addressed...

OF COMMUNICATION ON THE USE OF POST PART.UM BINDERS. By Dr Thomas Cairns.