Publications
| 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 |
| sudden infant death syndrome in south australia. measurement of serum ige antibodies to three common allergens. | radioallergosorbent test (rast) studies showed that ige antibodies to dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house dust mite), aspergillus fumigatus and bovine beta-lactoglobulin were significantly elevated in the sera of infants who died as a result of the sudden death in infancy syndrome (sdis). no significant differences were found in the levels of total ige, iga, igg or igm in the sera of sdis victims or controls. the possible role of hypersensitivity in the aetiology of sdis is discussed. | 1975 | 768723 |