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View article: Oritavancin for the Treatment of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Bacteremia—A Retrospective Single-arm Cohort Study
Oritavancin for the Treatment of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Bacteremia—A Retrospective Single-arm Cohort Study Open
Introduction Patients who require prolonged intravenous antibiotics for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) and who are ineligible for outpatient parental antibiotic therapy (OPAT) present a challenge in regard to delivering appropriate…
View article: Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in the context of interferon-gamma autoantibody syndrome: A case report and review of the literature
Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in the context of interferon-gamma autoantibody syndrome: A case report and review of the literature Open
Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) autoantibody syndrome is an emerging clinical entity that has been associated with disseminated non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection (dNTM) particularly in healthy young people, a population not previously thoug…
View article: Fannyhessea vaginae causing bacteraemia and vertebral osteomyelitis: first report of invasive disease in a male
Fannyhessea vaginae causing bacteraemia and vertebral osteomyelitis: first report of invasive disease in a male Open
Introduction. Fannyhessea vaginae (formerly Atopobium vaginae ) is an anaerobic organism commonly associated with female genital flora, with rare cases of invasive disease reported in females. Case report. We discuss the case of an 81-year…
View article: Fannyhessea vaginae causing bacteraemia and vertebral osteomyelitis: first report of invasive disease in a male
Fannyhessea vaginae causing bacteraemia and vertebral osteomyelitis: first report of invasive disease in a male Open
Introduction. Fannyhessea vaginae (formerly Atopobium vaginae) is an anaerobic organism commonly associated with female genital flora, with rare cases of invasive disease reported in females. Case report. We discuss the case of an 81-year-…
View article: Reviewer response for version 1
Reviewer response for version 1 Open
Introduction. Fannyhessea vaginae (formerly Atopobium vaginae) is an anaerobic organism commonly associated with female genital flora, with rare cases of invasive disease reported in females.Case report. We discuss the case of an 81-year-o…
View article: Fannyhessea vaginae causing bacteraemia and vertebral osteomyelitis: first report of invasive disease in a male
Fannyhessea vaginae causing bacteraemia and vertebral osteomyelitis: first report of invasive disease in a male Open
Introduction. Fannyhessea vaginae (formerly Atopobium vaginae) is an anaerobic organism commonly associated with female genital flora, with rare cases of invasive disease reported in females. Case report. We discuss the case of an 81-year-…
View article: Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey
Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey Open
Background For the benefits of advance care planning to be realised during a hospital admission, the treating team must have accurate knowledge of the law pertaining to implementation of advance care directives (ACDs) and substitute decisi…
View article: Junior medical doctors’ decision making when using advance care directives to guide treatment for people with dementia: a cross-sectional vignette study
Junior medical doctors’ decision making when using advance care directives to guide treatment for people with dementia: a cross-sectional vignette study Open
Background Junior medical doctors have a key role in discussions and decisions about treatment and end-of-life care for people with dementia in hospital. Little is known about junior doctors’ decision-making processes when treating people …
View article: Research activities in general medicine: a scoping survey by the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand
Research activities in general medicine: a scoping survey by the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand Open
Background In developing an effective framework for a collaborative research network (RN) that supports members involved in research, the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ) required a better understanding of th…
View article: Concerns and psychological well‐being of healthcare workers during the<scp>COVID</scp>‐19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital in New South Wales
Concerns and psychological well‐being of healthcare workers during the<span>COVID</span>‐19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital in New South Wales Open
Background In early 2020, the impending COVID‐19 pandemic placed a once‐in‐a‐generation professional and personal challenge on healthcare workers. Publications on direct physical disease abound. The authors wanted to focus on doctors' psyc…
View article: Treatment of &lt;i&gt;Neisseria meningitidis&lt;/i&gt; prosthetic joint infections with short-course antibiotics: three cases and a literature review
Treatment of <i>Neisseria meningitidis</i> prosthetic joint infections with short-course antibiotics: three cases and a literature review Open
Neisseria meningitidis is a rare cause of prosthetic joint infection (PJI), with only three cases previously reported. Here we report three further cases, all of which were successfully treated with implant retention and short-course antib…
View article: Q fever vertebral osteomyelitis in the absence of cardiovascular involvement: Two cases and a literature review
Q fever vertebral osteomyelitis in the absence of cardiovascular involvement: Two cases and a literature review Open
Chronic Q fever, most commonly manifesting as infective endocarditis or endovascular infection, complicates 1–5% of Coxiella burnetii infections. Vertebral osteomyelitis has been described, occurring mostly in the setting of adjacent vascu…
View article: Antimicrobial anaphylaxis: the changing face of severe antimicrobial allergy
Antimicrobial anaphylaxis: the changing face of severe antimicrobial allergy Open
Objectives The epidemiology, clinical characteristics and outcomes of antimicrobial-associated anaphylaxis remain ill-defined. We sought to examine antimicrobial anaphylaxis with regard to: (i) the frequency of implicated antimicrobials; (…
View article: <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Myocarditis with Associated Left Ventricular Apical Thrombus
<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Myocarditis with Associated Left Ventricular Apical Thrombus Open
Staphylococcus aureus myocarditis is a rare diagnosis with a high mortality rate, usually seen in people who are immunocompromised. Here, we report a case of a 44-year-old man on methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis who presented in septi…