| herpes simplex virus type 2 antibody in patients attending antenatal or std clinics. | to determine the prevalence of antibody to herpes simplex virus type 2 (hsv-2) in patients attending a general public antenatal clinic and three public sexually transmitted disease (std) clinics in sydney. | 1993 | 8387628 |
| etiology of encephalitis in australia, 1990-2007. | encephalitis is a clinical syndrome commonly caused by emerging pathogens, which are not under surveillance in australia. we reviewed rates of hospitalization for patients with encephalitis in australia's most populous state, new south wales, from january 1990 through december 2007. encephalitis was the primary discharge diagnosis for 5,926 hospital admissions; average annual hospitalization rate was 5.2/100,000 population. the most commonly identified pathogen was herpes simplex virus (n = 763, ... | 2009 | 19788802 |
| smoking and infectious agents and risk of in situ cervical cancer in sydney, australia. | in a study of 116 in situ cervical cancer patients and 193 matched community controls in sydney, australia, smoking was found to be a major risk factor. current smokers had a adjusted relative risk [rr] of 4.5 compared to nonsmokers [95% confidence interval (ci) 2.2-9.1] and exsmokers a rr of 1.3 [95% ci 0.6-3.0]. there was a stepwise dose-response relationship between risk and number of cigarettes smoked (30+ cigarettes/day, rr = 5.1, 95% ci 1.5-17.3); this dose-response relationship was more m ... | 1989 | 2547521 |