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| community acquired pneumonia in north eastern australia--a hospital based study of aboriginal and non-aboriginal patients. | although the most important organism causing community acquired pneumonia continues to be streptococcus pneumoniae, the frequency of other pathogens varies considerably across the world. | 1997 | 9079255 |
| interaction of microbiology and pathology in women undergoing investigations for infertility. | cases of endometriosis with no tubal damage are associated with infertility, suggesting an immunological rather than mechanical barrier to reproduction. laparoscopy and falloposcopy results of clinically asymptomatic women undergoing investigation of infertility were correlated with the outcomes of microbiological screening for chlamydia trachomatis, mycoplasma pneumoniae, mycoplasma hominis, ureaplasma species, neisseria gonorrhoeae, neisseria meningitidis and chlamydia pneumoniae. | 2004 | 15763913 |
| nested duplex pcr to detect bordetella pertussis and bordetella parapertussis and its application in diagnosis of pertussis in nonmetropolitan southeast queensland, australia. | a duplex pcr to detect bordetella pertussis and bordetella parapertussis was developed with the insertion sequences is481 (b. pertussis) and is1001 (b. parapertussis) and evaluated with specimens from 520 consecutive patients presenting with possible pertussis. no culture-positive-pcr-negative results occurred, giving the method a sensitivity of 100%. for b. pertussis, 58 of 520 patients (11.2%) were positive by pcr compared to 17 of 520 patients positive (3.3%) by culture. for b. parapertussis, ... | 1999 | 9986820 |