| haemophilia a management in victorian, new south wales and south australian haemophilia centres. | to examine the management of haemophilia a in australia and to compare it with international trends. | 1995 | 7791641 |
| bone allograft banking in south australia. | the south australian bone bank had expanded to meet an increased demand for allograft bone. during a 5 year period from 1988 to 1992, 2361 allografts were harvested from 2146 living donors and 30 cadaveric donors. the allografts were screened by contemporary banking techniques which include a social history, donor serum tests for hiv-1, hiv-2, hepatitis b and c, syphilis serology, graft microbiology and histology. grafts were irradiated with 25 kgy. the majority of grafts were used for arthropla ... | 1995 | 8611110 |
| prevalence of hepatitis c infection in pregnant women in south australia. | to estimate the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) seropositivity and known risk factors for hcv infection in a group of pregnant women. | 1997 | 9397060 |
| hepatitis c virus infection in south australian prisoners: seroprevalence, seroconversion, and risk factors. | to determine entry antibody seroprevalence and seroconversion to hepatitis c virus (hcv) and associated risk factors in newly incarcerated prisoners. | 2009 | 18790659 |
| sharps injury and body fluid exposure among health care workers in an australian tertiary hospital. | to examine sharps injury and body fluid exposure among health care workers, a descriptive epidemiological study was conducted in a 1000-bed tertiary hospital between 2000 and 2003 using surveillance data of all reported sharps injuries and body fluid exposures. a total of 640 sharps injuries and body fluid exposures were reported from hospital and nonhospital staff, although no seroconversions to hiv, hepatitis b virus, or hepatitis c virus were observed during the study period. nurses reported ... | 2008 | 19124307 |
| prediction of hepatitis c virus infectivity in seropositive australian blood donors by supplemental immunoassays and detection of viral rna. | the prevalence of anti-hepatitis c virus (hcv) enzyme immunoassay (eia)-positive in 167,511 australian volunteer blood donors from adelaide, melbourne, perth, and sydney was 0.78%. one thousand two-hundred and eighteen eia-positive serum samples were assessed by supplemental tests including a blocking eia and two peptide eias corresponding to major epitopes of the hcv c-100-3 antigen. seven hundred and eighteen samples (59%) were negative by supplemental testing; no evidence of reactivity with o ... | 1991 | 1657250 |
| quality of life in hepatitis c virus infection: assessment of rural patients living in north-western new south wales. | to measure the health-related quality of life (hrqol) of rural australian hepatitis c virus (hcv)-infected patients living in north-western new south wales. | 2008 | 18652609 |
| australia's notifiable diseases status, 1997. annual report of the national notifiable diseases surveillance system. | in 1997 there were 89,579 notifications to the national notifiable diseases surveillance system. a notable feature of 1997 was the pertussis outbreak which peaked towards the end of the year and resulted in 10,668 cases being notified. the highest number of notifications received was for hepatitis c (unspecified) with 19,692 notifications; this is the first year for which data have been reported for new south wales and south australia for this disease category. the number of measles cases rose a ... | 1999 | 10095294 |
| hepatitis c and the history of injecting drug use in south australia. | | 1994 | 8047043 |
| hepatitis c and the history of injecting drug use in south australia. | | 1994 | 8047044 |
| the prevalence of hcv antibody in south australian prisoners. | the study was aimed at identifying the hepatitis c virus (hcv)-antibody status of prisoners incarcerated in south australia in order to develop an hcv prevalence estimate for the whole prison system. | 2006 | 16313963 |
| chronic kidney disease following liver transplantation: a south australian experience. | the incidence of chronic kidney disease (ckd) and its impact on survival have not been widely studied in the australian liver transplant (olt) population. the aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of ckd stages at various time points, calculate the cumulative incidence of progression to severe ckd, and study the impact of ckd stages on patient survival and risk factors for severe ckd in a single-center post-olt population. we studied retrospectively 130 patients who underwent olt in ... | 2010 | 21094832 |