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Publications - September 2015
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Publications - September 2015
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Post JJ, Goldberg H, Kaufman G, Plit M, Ressler KA, Ferson MJ. HIV testing rates and co-infection among patients with tuberculosis in south-eastern Sydney, 2008-2013. The Medical journal of Australia 2015 202 (5), 255-256
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25758696
Paterson BJ, Martin N, Durrheim DN. Protecting Australia from Future Polio Outbreaks. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2015
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512456/
Lowbridge C; McIntyre PB; Gilmour R; Chiu C; Seale H; Ferson MJ; Gilbert GL, 2015, 'Long term population impact of seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine with a "3+0? schedule-How do "2+1? and "3+1? schedules compare?', Vaccine, vol. 33, no. 28, pp. 3234 - 3241,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.04.079
Bateman-Steel CR, Smedley EJ, Kong M, Ferson MJ. Hepatitis C enhanced surveillance: results from a southeastern Sydney pilot program. 2015 Public health research & practice 25 (2)
http://www.phrp.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PHRP-25-02-HCV-05-FINAL-24Mar15.pdf
Davey HM, Muscatello DJ, Wood JG, Snelling TL, J Ferson MJ, Macartney KM. Impact of high coverage of monovalent human rotavirus vaccine on Emergency Department presentations for rotavirus gastroenteritis 2015 Vaccine 33 (14), 1726-1730
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25681665
Callander D, Bourne C, Pell C, Finlayson R, Forssman B, Baker D, de Wit J, Hocking J, Stoové M, Donovan B, Kaldor J, Guy R. Recording the sexual orientation of male patients attending general practice. Family practice, vol. 32, issue 1 pp. 35-40 2015
http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/1/35.short
Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN. Surveillance System Evaluations Provide Evidence to Improve Public Health Practice. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2015
http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/5959
Britton PN, Eastwood K, Paterson B, Durrheim DN, Dale RC, Cheng AC, Kenedi C, Brew BJ, Burrow J, Nagree Y, Leman P, Smith DW, Read K, Booy R, Jones CA. Consensus guidelines for the investigation and management of encephalitis in adults and children in Australia and New Zealand. Internal medicine journal, 2015
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imj.12749/full
Eastwood K, Paterson BJ, Levi C, Givney R, Loewenthal M, De Malmanche T, Lai K, Granerod J, Durrheim DN. Adult encephalitis surveillance: experiences from an Australian prospective sentinel site study. Epidemiology and infection, 2015
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9644764&fileId=S0950268815000527
Fletcher SM, Boonwaat L, Moore T, Chavada R, Conaty S. Investigating an outbreak of staphylococcal food poisoning among travellers across two Australian States. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal 2015, 6(2).
http://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar/issue/view/23
Rosewell A, Spokes PJ, Gilmour RE. New South Wales annual vaccine-preventable disease report, 2013. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal 2015, 6(2).
http://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar/issue/view/23
Scott N, Gabriel S, Sheppeard V, Peacock A, Scott C, Flego K, Forssman B, Seale H. Responding to a measles outbreak in a Pacific Island community in western Sydney: community interviews led to church-based immunization clinics. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal 2015, 6(2).
http://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar/issue/view/23
Bag SK, Dey A, Wang H, Beard FH. Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: mumps 2008-2012. Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 39 Number 1 March 2015.
http://cdi.cmail2.com/t/ViewEmail/r/CBB8724FC0C0B7CB2540EF23F30FEDED/5271D3CA4BB1A62F4936C359EC0425C0
Terry JB, Flatley CJ, van den Berg DJ, Morgan GG, Trent M, Turahui JA, Greenwood MC, Corben PW, J Bell GJ. A field study of household attack rates and the effectiveness of macrolide antibiotics in reducing household transmission of pertussis. Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 39 Number 1 March 2015.
Dalton CB, Durrheim DN, Marks G, Pope III CA. Investigating the health impacts of particulates associated with coal mining in the Hunter Valley. Air Quality & Climate Change, 2014
Quinn E, Massey P, Speare R. Communicable diseases in rural and remote Australia – the need for improved understanding and action. International Journal of Rural and Remote Health 2015
O’Grady KF, Dunbar M, Medlin LG, Hall KK, Toombs M, Meiklejohn J, McHugh L, Massey PD, Creighton A, Andrews RM. Uptake of influenza vaccination in pregnancy amongst Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: a mixed-methods pilot study. BMC research notes, 2015.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s13104-015-1147-3.pdf
Massey PD, Asugeni R, Wakageni J, Kekeubata E, Maena’aadi J, Laete’esafi J, Waneagea J, Asugeni V, MacLaren D, Speare R. Steps on a journey to TB control in Solomon Islands: a cross-sectional, mixed methods pre-post evaluation of a local language DVD BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015, 15:1
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/15/1/
Miller A, Massey PD, Judd J, Kelly J, Durrheim DN, Clough AR, Speare R, Saggers S. Using a participatory action research framework to listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia about pandemic influenza. Rural and Remote Health 15: 2923. (Online) 2015. Available:
http://www.rrh.org.au/Articles/subviewnew.asp?ArticleID=2923
Bateman-Steel CR, Vyas A, Gupta L. General practitioner management of notifiable diseases is central to communicable disease control. The Medical journal of Australia, [2015, 202(10):524-525]
Najjar Z, Gupta L, Sintchenko V, Shadbolt C, Wang Q, Bansal N. Listeriosis cluster in Sydney linked to hospital food. The Medical journal of Australia 202 (8), 448
Cumming G, Khatami A, McMullan BJ, Musto J, Leung K, Nguyen O, Ferson MJ, Papadakis G, Sheppeard V. Parechovirus Genotype 3 Outbreak among Infants, New South Wales, Australia, 2013–2014 .Emerging infectious diseases 21 (7), 1144
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480380/
Gupta L, Vyas A, Ingleton A, Huhtinen E, Hope K, Najjar Z. Influenza outbreak preparedness: lessons from outbreaks in residential care facilities in 2014. Communicable Disease Intelligence 2015 Vol. 39, issue 2 pp. 205-7
Speare R, Mendez D, Judd J, Reid S, Tzipori S, Massey PD (2015) Willingness to Consult a Veterinarian on Physician’s Advice for Zoonotic Diseases: A Formal Role for Veterinarians in Medicine? PLoS ONE 10(8): e0131406. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131406
Ferson MJ, Orr K. Some truths about the" low" childhood vaccination coverage in Sydney's eastern suburbs. The Medical journal of Australia, 2015
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2015/203/3/some-truths-about-low-childhood-vaccination-coverage-sydney-s-eastern-suburbs
Adamson S, Wilson R, James G. Preparing for Ebolavirus disease: specimen collection, packaging and transport. Pathology 2015: 47 (5) 403-404
Jaravani FG, Durrheim DN, Byleveld P, Oegelmuller M, Judd J. Drinking water safety in recreational parks in northern New South Wales, Australia. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 2015: 1-14.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14486563.2014.984782#.VdwI9H23Q64
Durrheim DN, Strebel PM. Measles vaccine still saves children’s lives. Lancet 2015; 385: 327.
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960114-3.pdf
Durrheim DN, Rees H, Briggs DJ, Blumberg LH. Mass vaccination of dogs, control of canine populations and post-exposure vaccination – necessary but not sufficient for achieving childhood rabies elimination. Tropical Medicine International Health 2015; 20: 682-684.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tmi.12474/abstract;jsessionid=F7F97419E7A8661F47F0DB7325736216.f03t01
Dhingra D, Durrheim DN, Porigneaux P. Sporotrichosis outbreak and mouldy hay in NSW. Australian Family Physician 2015; 44: 217-221.
https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2015/april/sporotrichosis-outbreak-and-mouldy-hay-in-nsw
Harrington H, Bradbury R, Taeka J, Asugeni J, Asugeni V, Igeni T, Gwalaa J, Newton L, Fa`anuabae CE, Kilivisi FL, Esau D, Flores A, Ribeyro E, Liku D, Muse A, Asugeni L, Talana J, Shield J, MacLaren DJ, Massey PD, Muller R, Speare R. Prevalence of soil transmitted helminths in remote villages in East Kwaio, Solomon Islands. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal. 2015, 6(3). doi:10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.1.016
Laurence A, Lewis P, Gately C, Dixon A. Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination: do older people know if they have been vaccinated? Aust NZ J Pub Health, Aug 2015.
Blinkhorn AS, Byun R, Johnson G, Metha P, Kay M, Lewis P. The dental health of primary school children living in fluoridated, pre-fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities in New South Wales, Australia. BMC Oral Health Jan 21 2015.
Heywood AE, Forssman BL, Seale H, MacIntyre R and Zwar N. General Practitioners' Perception of Risk for Travelers Visiting Friends and Relatives. 2015 International Society of Travel Medicine DOI.
https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/22/6/368/2635583
Roberts-Witteveen A, Reinten T, Christensen A, Sintchenko V, Seale P, Lowbridge, C. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in New South Wales, Australia, 1999–2010: a case series report. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Volume 19, Number 7, 1 July 2015, pp. 850-856(7)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtld/2015/00000019/00000007/art00018
Chua KYL , Thapa K, Yapa CM, Somerville LK, Chen SCA, Dwyer DE, Sheppeard V, Kok J What assay is optimal for the diagnosis of measles virus infection? An evaluation of the performance of a measles virus real-time reverse transcriptase PCR using the Cepheid SmartCycler® and antigen detection by immunofluorescence. Journal of Clinical Virology Volume 70, September 2015, Pages 46–52
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386653215002942
Capon A, Rolfe M, Gillespie J, Smith W. Are Australians concerned about nanoparticles? A comparative analysis with established and emerging environmental health issues. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Volume 39, Issue 1, Article first published online: 3 FEB 2015
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1753-6405.12349/pdf
Ward KF, Trent M, Hull BP, Quinn HE, Dey A and Menzies RI. Evaluating the implementation of the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine supplementary dose program in Australian primary health care settings. BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:109
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/15/109
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