| endogenous endophthalmitis: a 13-year review at a tertiary hospital in south australia. | this retrospective report presents a series of patients with endogenous endophthalmitis treated over a 13-y period in a tertiary care centre in south australia. 16 eyes of 13 patients (8 m, 5 f) with a mean age 62 y were included. systemic predisposing risk factors were mainly diabetes mellitus (30.7%), chronic obstructive airway disease (23.1%) and end-stage renal disease (15.4%). isolated organisms included fungal species in 11 eyes (7 eyes with candida albicans and 4 with aspergillus fumigatu ... | 2005 | 15849050 |
| antimicrobial drug utilisation in dunedin hospital, new zealand, and its association with antimicrobial resistance. | antimicrobial resistance (ar) to a drug can be considered a natural response to the selection pressure of that drug, with over prescribing being one of the major causes. few investigations have evaluated the relationships between antimicrobial drug use in a hospital and antimicrobial resistance. | 2006 | 16753747 |
| infectious keratitis in south australia: emerging resistance to cephazolin. | to analyze the microbiologic spectrum and patterns of resistance of infectious keratitis in patients treated at a tertiary hospital in south australia. | 2005 | 15751235 |
| survival of cystic fibrosis patients in south australia. evidence that cystic fibrosis centre care leads to better survival. | life tables were calculated for 205 south australians with cystic fibrosis. an improvement in survival was noted between 1948 and 1982. ninety-three per cent of patients who were diagnosed as having cystic fibrosis after 1973 were alive at 14 years of age, compared with 40% of those who were diagnosed between 1948 and 1973. a cystic fibrosis clinic was established in 1973 and much of this improvement is attributed to the care provided by this centre. deaths from meconium ileus fell from 58% of i ... | 1985 | 4033505 |