Infectious diseases

Dr Linda Calabresi
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Speaking on a recent Healthed Going Viral podcast, clinical microbiologist Associate Professor Paul Griffin said diphtheria was a disease ‘thought to be confined to the history books.’

Prof Paul Griffin
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A high index of suspicion based on vaccination status, travel and exposure history will help raise a red flag- GPs are once again at the forefront of identifying, treating and ensuring that we commence the appropriate public health interventions.

Felicity Nelson
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Are patients simply bored of covid vaccines or is there something else going on?

Felicity Nelson
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A survey of around 500 doctors exposes knowledge gaps.

Adj. Prof Brent Richards
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COVID-19 is now endemic, constantly changing and evolving. The health system is under rising pressure at all points, and therefore a concerted approach to prevent and minimize disease is increasingly needed

Prof Peter Richmond
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In this Product Explainer, Paediatrician and Paediatric Immunologist Prof Peter Richmond explains how Meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) disease remains the most common cause of IMD in children, adolescents and young adults, and provides an overview of the real-world evidence for MenB vaccines, and conversation strategies for use with families in general practice (6 mins).

Dr Gary Grohmann
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Transitioning our patients to Novavax and protein-based vaccines and away from mRNA. Monkeypox should be taken seriously... especially for high-risk patients

Dr Linda Calabresi
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Just when you thought we had had our fill of infectious diseases, along comes a virus that sounds straight out of a George Orwell novel.

A/Prof John Litt AM
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Some ‘basic’ influenza epidemiology, what happened in 2021 and what to expect in 2022, what's new with cell culture influenza vaccines and high dose influenza vaccines, and importance of vaccination rates

Dr Linda Calabresi
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As the world gets used to living with COVID, especially this latest infectious but not particularly severe Omicron strain, more attention is focusing on long COVID.

A/Prof Nicholas Wood
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Current burden and variants, long COVID and vaccines, and COVID vaccine boosters - effectiveness and safety and the need for a 4th dose

Dr Bernard Hudson
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It is likely that Japanese encephalitis will become endemic, and GPs will once again be at the forefront in diagnosis, future immunisation programmes and patient education