| liver transplantation in western australia: improved services to an isolated population. | to assess performance of the western australian liver transplantation service in the light of debate about whether small transplant centres can produce optimal outcomes. | 1997 | 9379974 |
| murine viruses in an island population of introduced house mice and endemic short-tailed mice in western australia. | house mice (mus domesticus) were recently introduced to thevenard island, off the northwest coast of western australia. this island is also habitat for an endangered native rodent, the short-tailed mouse (leggadina lakedownensis). concerns have been raised that house mice may pose a threat to l. lakedownensis both through competition and as a source of infection. to assess the threat to l. lakedownensis posed by viral pathogens from m. domesticus, a serological survey was conducted from 1994 to ... | 1999 | 10231757 |
| a prospective study of infection and cardiovascular diseases: the busselton health study. | infectious agents might play a role in the aetiology of cardiovascular diseases. the aim was to determine the association of antibodies to implicated infectious agents with coronary heart disease (chd) and stroke in a population-based prospective study. | 2003 | 14555883 |
| pathogens of house mice on arid boullanger island and subantarctic macquarie island, australia. | studies on island populations of house mice (mus domesticus) and their viruses reveal insights into viral persistence in isolated communities. we surveyed the ectoparasites, endoparasites, and antiviral antibodies for 11 murine viruses and two bacteria of house mice inhabiting two islands off australia. house mice on boullanger island were seropositive to two viruses, murine cytomegalovirus and epizootic diarrhea of infant mice. on subantarctic macquarie island, house mice were seropositive for ... | 2003 | 14733270 |
| cytomegalovirus-associated ileal stricture in a preterm neonate. | gastrointestinal (gi) manifestations of post-natally acquired cytomegalovirus (cmv) in preterm neonates can vary from mild diarrhoea to severe necrotising enterocolitis. however, the suspicion of cmv-related gi disease remains low. mild cmv disease localised to the gi tract may go undiagnosed initially until a more obvious complication such as strictures manifest. a case of cmv-associated enteritis in an extremely preterm neonate is presented. the diagnosis was established after the histopatholo ... | 2008 | 18086043 |
| transmission of two australian strains of murine cytomegalovirus (mcmv) in enclosure populations of house mice (mus domesticus). | to control plagues of free-living mice (mus domesticus) in australia, a recombinant murine cytomegalovirus (mcmv) expressing fertility proteins is being developed as an immunocontraceptive agent. real-time quantitative pcr was used to monitor the transmission of two genetically variable field strains of mcmv through mouse populations after 25% of founding mice were infected with the n1 strain, followed by the g4 strain 6 weeks later. pathogen-free wild-derived mice were released into outdoor enc ... | 2005 | 16050517 |
| the western australian hiv cohort study, perth, australia. | the efficacy of primary prophylactic treatment for opportunistic infections can be estimated in an observational cohort study by adjusting for clinical and laboratory markers of the immunodeficiency (e.g., oral candidiasis, cd4%, lymphocyte cell counts) as time-dependent co-variates (providing that the treatment does not directly alter the markers). however, the cd4 cell count provides an incomplete measure of the protective immune response, and the efficacy of treatment may be underestimated if ... | 1998 | 9586648 |
| trends in incidence of aids illnesses in australia from 1983 to 1994: the australian aids cohort. | to assess time trends in incidence of aids illnesses in australia, a retrospective cohort of people diagnosed with aids from january 1, 1983 to december 31, 1994 in three hiv medicine units in sydney, melbourne, and perth was established. data on initial and subsequent aids illnesses were available for 2580 aids cases, or 45% of australian aids notifications over the study period. males represented 97.2% of the cohort, and hiv exposure category was homosexual contact for 89.9%. subcohorts were f ... | 1997 | 9377123 |
| spastic quadriplegia in western australia: a genetic epidemiological study. i: case population and perinatal risk factors. | in a case-control study of all cerebral palsy cases with moderate and severe spastic quadriplegia born between 1976 and 1985, males comprised three-quarters of the cases and tended to have more severe motor impairment than females. the majority of cases had multiple and severe disabilities, and 27 per cent had died by the time of data collection. there was an excess of low-birthweight and preterm births compared with all live births in wa. an intrapartum cause was considered possible in 18 of th ... | 1993 | 8385035 |