$3.4M MRFF funding for fight against superbugs

Congratulations to Prof Tony Korman and Adj A/Prof Rhonda Stuart, part of a multidisciplinary team of Monash researchers who have won a $3.4M MRFF grant for improving diagnosis, treatment and prevention of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals and the healthcare system.  Read full news story here.

Publications for week ending 24 June 2018

Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells: another cancer therapy with potential applications in kidney disease and transplantation Richard Kitching, Julie Jaw published in Kidney International.

Effectiveness of self-management support interventions for people with comorbid diabetes and chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis 
Helena Teede et al. published in Systematic Reviews.

Foreign tick smuggling rickettsia evades Australian border control

Tony Korman et al. published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

Respiratory virus detection and co-infection in children and adults in a large Australian hospital in 2009-2015

Tash Ching et al. published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Life-long antimicrobial therapy: where is the evidence?

Ian Woolley et al. published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Respiratory virus detection and co‐infection in children and adults in a large Australian hospital in 2009–2015

Tash Ching et al. published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 

Morbidity from in-hospital complications is greater than treatment failure in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

Tony Korman et al. published in BMC Infectious Diseases.

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Underdiagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia psittaci revealed by introduction of respiratory multiplex PCR assay with Chlamydiaceae family primers

Maryza Graham et al. published in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease.

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Myocarditis Caused by Human Parechovirus in Adult

Tony Korman et al published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

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Infection is an Independent Predictor of Death in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma

Claire Dendle et al. published in Scientific Reports.

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Herpes simplex virus-2 transmission following solid organ transplantation: Donor-derived infection and transplantation from prior organ recipients

Tony Korman et al. published in Transplant Infectious Disease.

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Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis in solid organ transplantation

Tony Korman et al. published in New Microbiology.

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Management of dengue in Australian travellers: a retrospective multicentre analysis

Tony Korman et al. published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

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Changing epidemiology of candidaemia in Australia

Tony Korman et al. published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

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Changing epidemiology of candidaemia in Australia

Tony Korman et al. published in the Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy.

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Influence of Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration on the Outcome of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Left-Sided Infective Endocarditis Treated with Anti-staphylococcal Beta-Lactam Antibiotics; a Prospective Cohort Study by the International Collaboration on Endocarditis.

Tony Korman et al. published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.

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Surveillance of life-long antibiotics: a review of antibiotic prescribing practices in an Australian Healthcare Network.

Ian Woolley et al. published in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and  Antimicrobials

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Integrase-resistant HIV in an antiretroviral-naive patient in Australia

Nastaran Rafiei, Tony Korman et al. published in AIDS.

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Bacteroides pyogenes causing serious human wound infection from animal bites

Jillian Lau, Tony Korman et al. published in Anaerobe.

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Influenza epidemiology in patients admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2015: the Influenza Complications Alert Network

Tony Korman et al. published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report.

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