Publications - 2015

Published Year:
2015
Publication Detail:

MacIntyre CR, Chughtai AA. Face masks for the prevention of infection in healthcare and community settings. BMJ 2015;350:h694. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h694.

MacIntyre CR, Chughtai AA. Recurrence and reinfection– a new paradigm for management of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Int J Infect Dis 2015; 43:58-61.

MacIntyre CR, Seale H, Dung TC, Nguyen Tran Hien NT, Nga PT, Chughtai AA, Rahman B, Dwyer DE, Wang Q. A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ Open 2015;5:e006577 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577

MacIntyre CR;Chughtai AA;Seale H;Richards GA;Davidson PM, 2015, 'Uncertainty, risk analysis and change for Ebola personal protective equipment guidelines', International Journal of Nursing Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.12.001

MacIntyre CR;Seale H;Dung TC;Hien NT;Nga PT;Chughtai AA;Rahman B;Dwyer DE;Wang Q, 2015, 'A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers', BMJ Open, vol. 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577

MacIntyre R, Stein A, Harrison C, Britt H, Mahimbo A, Cunningham A (2015) Increasing Trends of Herpes Zoster in Australia. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0125025. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125025.

MacIntyre, C. R. Re-thinking the ethics of dual-use research of concern on transmissible pathogens. Environment, Systems and Decisions, 2015;35 (1):129-132. 10.1007/s10669-015-9534-9  

MacIntyre, CR, Travaglia, J. Heightened vulnerability, reduced oversight and ethical breaches on the Internet in the in West African Ebola epidemic. The American Journal of Bioethics, 2015.

MacIntyre, CR. Bio preparedness in the age of genetically engineered pathogens and open access science - an urgent need for a paradigm shift. Military Medicine, 2015; 180(9):943-9. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00482.

Barnes A, Heywood AE, Mahimbo A, Rahman B, Newall AT, Macintyre CR. Acute myocardial infarction and influenza: a meta-analysis of case–control studies. BMJ. Epub ahead of print. August 2015. [Full text]

Dirmesropian S, Wood JG, MacIntyre CR, Newall AT. A review of economic evaluations of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in adults and the elderly. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 11(4):818-25. May 2015. [Full text]

Dyda A, MacIntyre CR, Banks E, Kaldor J, Newall AT, McIntyre P, Liu B. Medicare Benefits Schedule data to monitor adult influenza immunisation in Australian adults. Public Health Research and Practice. Accepted for publication. August 2015.

Dyda A, MacIntyre CR, McIntyre P, Newall AT, Banks E, Kaldor J, Liu B. Factors associated with influenza vaccination in middle and older aged Australian adults according to eligibility for the national vaccination program. Vaccine. 33(29):3299-305. May 2015. [Full text]

Gao Z, Wood J, Gidding H, Newall A, Menzies R, Wang H, McIntyre P, MacIntyre C. Control of varicella in the post-vaccination era in Australia: a model-based assessment of catch-up and infant vaccination strategies for the future. Epidemiology and Infection. 143(7): 1467-1476. March 2015. [Full text]

Hayles HE , Cooper SC, Wood N, Sinn J, Skinner S R. What predicts postpartum pertussis booster vaccination? A controlled intervention trial. Vaccines. 33(1): 228–236. January 2015. [Full text]

Heywood AE, Forssman BL, Seale H, MacIntyre CR, Zwar N. General Practitioners' Perception of Risk for Travelers Visiting Friends and Relatives. Journal of Travel Medicine. 22(6): 368–374. October 2015.

Heywood AE, Forssman BL, Seale H, MacIntyre CR, Zwar N. General Practitioners' Perception of Risk for Travelers Visiting Friends and Relatives. Journal of Travel Medicine. Published online. July 2015.

Karki S, Gidding HF, Newall AT, McIntyre PB, Liu B. Risk factors and burden of acute Q fever in older adults in New South Wales, Australia: a prospective cohort study. Medical Journal of Australia. In press. October 2015.

Karki S, McIntyre P, Newall AT, MacIntyre CR, Banks E, Liu B. Risk factors for pertussis hospitalizations in Australians aged 45 years and over: A population based nested case–control study. Vaccine. 33(42): 5647–5653. October 2015. [Full text]

Liu B, Heywood AE, Reekie J, Banks E, Kaldor JM, McINTYRE P, Newall AT, Macintyre CR. Risk factors for herpes zoster in a large cohort of unvaccinated older adults: a prospective cohort study. Epidemiology and Infection. 143 (3) 2871-2881. October 2015. [Full text]

Ma T, Heywood A, MacIntyre CR. Chinese travellers visiting friends and relatives - A review of infectious risks. Travel Medicine Infectious Diseases. S1477-8939(15)00083-6 [Epub ahead of print]. May 2015. [Full text]

MacIntyre R, Stein A, Harrison C, Britt H, Mahimbo A, Cunningham A . Increasing Trends of Herpes Zoster in Australia. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0125025. April 2015. [Full text]

Newall AT, Dehollain JP. The cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination in elderly Australians: An exploratory analysis of the vaccine efficacy required. Vaccine. 32(12):1323–1325 . March 2015. [Full text]

Osterhaus A, Brooks A, Broberg E, MacIntyre R, Capua I. Why should influenza be a public health priority?. Vaccine. [Epub ahead of print] . August 2015. [Full text]

Rahman B, Heywood A, Moa A, MacIntyre CR. Influenza vaccination and cardiovascular risk in patients with recent TIA and stroke. Neurology. 84(1):105. January 2015.

Salmon DA, MacIntyre CR, Omer SB. Making mandatory vaccination truly compulsory: well-intentioned but ill conceived. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 15(8):872-3. August 2015.

Seale H, Sitaresmi MN, Atthobari J, Heywood AE, Kaur R, MacIntyre CR, Soenarto Y, Padmawati RS. Knowledge and attitudes towards rotavirus diarrhoea and the vaccine amongst healthcare providers in Yogyakarta Indonesia. BMC Health Services Research. 2015; 15: 528. May 2015.

Wang X, Wu S, MacIntyre CR, Zhang H, Shi W, Peng X, et al. Using an adjusted serfling regression model to improve the early warning at the arrival of peak timing of influenza in beijing. PLoS ONE. 26(3): 381–389. March 2015. [Full text]

Wood JG;Heywood AE;Menzies RI;McIntyre PB;MacIntyre CR, 2015, 'Predicting localised measles outbreak potential in Australia', Vaccine, vol. 33, pp. 1176 - 1181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.071. [Full Text]

Wood JG, Goeyvaerts N, MacIntyre CR, Menzies RI, McIntyre PB, Hens N. Estimating vaccine coverage from serial trivariate serologic data in the presence of waning immunity. Epidemiology. Published ahead of print. March 2015. [Full text]

Begun M, Newall AT, Marks G, Wood JG. Revisiting Styblo’s law: could mathematical models aid in estimating incidence from prevalence data? Epidemiology and Infection 2015;143(7):1556-65.

Begun M;Newall AT;Marks GB;Wood JG, 2015, 'Revisiting Styblo's law: Could mathematical models aid in estimating incidence from prevalence data?', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 143, pp. 1556 - 1565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814002428

Bui, C., A. Bethmont, A. A. Chughtai, L. Gardner, S. Sarkar, S. Hassan, H. Seale and C. R. MacIntyre, 2015: A Systematic Review of the Comparative Epidemiology of Avian and Human Influenza A H5N1 and H7N9 – Lessons and Unanswered Questions. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2016;63(6):602-620. doi: 10.1111/tbed.12327. Epub 2015 Jan 29.  

Chen Y;Liu BC;Glass K;Kirk MD, 2015, 'High incidence of hospitalisation due to infectious gastroenteritis in older people associated with poor self-rated health', BMJ Open, vol. 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010161

Chughtai AA, MacIntyre CR, Ashraf MO, Zheng Y, Yang P, Wang Q, et al. Practices around the use of masks and respirators among hospital health care workers in 3 diverse populations. American Journal of Infection Control, 2015; 43(10):1116-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.05.041. Epub 2015 Jul 13.

Chughtai AA, Rahman B, MacIntyre CR. Commentary on: Arriola et al. Antivirals and Effect Modification in Influenza Studies. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015; 212 (10): 1683-1684.doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiv384

Chughtai AA, Seale H, Chi Dung T, Maher L, Nga PT, MacIntyre CR. Current practices and barriers to the use of facemasks and respirators among hospital-based health care workers in Vietnam. Am J Infect Control. 2015 Jan 1;43(1):72-7.

Chughtai AA;MacIntyre CR;Ashraf MO;Zheng Y;Yang P;Wang Q;Dung TC;Hien NT;Seale H, 2015, 'Practices around the use of masks and respirators among hospital health care workers in 3 diverse populations', American Journal of Infection Control, vol. 43, pp. 1116 - 1118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.05.041

Chughtai AA;MacIntyre CR;Zheng Y;Wang Q;Toor ZI;Dung TC;Hien NT;Seale H, 2015, 'Examining the policies and guidelines around the use of masks and respirators by healthcare workers in China, Pakistan and Vietnam', Journal of Infection Prevention, vol. 16, pp. 68 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177414560251

Chughtai AA;Seale H;Dung TC;Maher L;Nga PT;MacIntyre CR, 2015, 'Current practices and barriers to the use of facemasks and respirators among hospital-based health care workers in Vietnam', American Journal of Infection Control, vol. 43, pp. 72 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.009

Cowling CS;Liu BC;Snelling TL;Ward JS;Kaldor JM;Wilson DP, 2015, 'National trachoma surveillance annual report, 2012.', Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report, vol. 39, pp. E146 - E157

Davey, H. M., Muscatello, D. J., Wood, J. G., Snelling, T. L., Ferson, M. J., & Macartney, K. K. (2015). Impact of high coverage of monovalent human rotavirus vaccine on Emergency Department presentations for rotavirus gastroenteritis. Vaccine, 33(14), 1726-1730. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.01.082

Dirmesropian S, Wood JG, MacIntyre CR, Newall AT. A review of economic evaluations of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in adults and the elderly. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 2015;11(4):818-25.

Dirmesropian S, Wood JG, Macintyre CR, Newall AT. A review of economic evaluations of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in adults and the elderly. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics. 2015;11(4):818-25.

Dirmesropian S;Wood JG;Macintyre CR;Newall AT, 2015, 'A review of economic evaluations of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in adults and the elderly', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, vol. 11, pp. 818 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2015.1011954

Duong CM;Olszyna DP;McLaws ML, 2015, 'Hepatitis B and C virus infections among patients with end stage renal disease in a low-resourced hemodialysis center in Vietnam: A cross-sectional study', BMC Public Health, vol. 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1532-9

Duong CM;Olszyna DP;Nguyen PD;McLaws ML, 2015, 'Challenges of hemodialysis in Vietnam: Experience from the first standardized district dialysis unit in Ho Chi Minh City', BMC Nephrology, vol. 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-015-0117-2

Dyda A, MacIntyre CR, Banks E, Kaldor J, Newall A, McIntyre P, et al. Medicare Benefits Schedule data to monitor influenza immunisation in Australian adults. Public Health Res Pract 2015;25(4):e2541543.

Dyda A, MacIntyre CR, McIntyre P, Newall AT, Banks E, Kaldor J, et al. Factors associated with influenza vaccination in middle and older aged Australian adults according to eligibility for the national vaccination program. Vaccine. 2015;33(29):3299-305

Dyda A;MacIntyre CR;Banks E;Kaldor J;Newall AT;McIntyre P;Liu B, 2015, 'Medicare Benefits Schedule data to monitor influenza immunisation in Australian adults', Public Health Research and Practice, vol. 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.17061/phrp2541543

Dyda A;MacIntyre CR;McIntyre P;Newall AT;Banks E;Kaldor J;Liu B, 2015, 'Factors associated with influenza vaccination in middle and older aged Australian adults according to eligibility for the national vaccination program', Vaccine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.05.046

File K;McLaws ML, 2015, 'Ni-Vanuatu health-seeking practices for general health and childhood diarrheal illness: Results from a qualitative methods study', BMC Research Notes, vol. 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1151-7

Gale M, Muscatello DJ, Dinh M, Byrnes J, Shakeshaft A, Hayen A, MacIntyre CR, Haber P, Cretikos M, Morton P. Alcopops, taxation and harm: a segmented time series analysis of emergency department presentations. BMC Public Health 2015, 15:468 doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1769-3.

Gao Z, Wood JG, Gidding HF, Newall AT, Menzies RI, Wang H, et al. Control of varicella in the post-vaccination era in Australia: A model-based assessment of catch-up and infant vaccination strategies for the future. Epidemiology and Infection. 2015;143(7):1467-76.

GIDDING HF;MAHAJAN D;REEKIE J;LLOYD AR;DWYER DE;BUTLER T, 2015, 'Hepatitis B immunity in Australia: a comparison of national and prisoner population serosurveys', Epidemiology and Infection, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814003914

Gralton J;Mclaws M-L;Rawlinson WD, 2015, 'Personal clothing as a potential vector of respiratory virus transmission in childcare settings', Journal of Medical Virology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.24102

Heywood AE, Forssman B, Seale H, Macintyre CR and Zwar N. General practitioners' perception of risk for travelers visiting friends and relatives. Journal of Travel Medicine 2015;22(6):368-74. doi: 10.1111/jtm.12229.

Karki S;Gidding HF;Newall AT;McIntyre PB;Liu BC, 2015, 'Risk factors and burden of acute Q fever in older adults in New South Wales: A prospective cohort study', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 203, pp. 438.e1 - 438.e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja15.00391

Kaur R;Razee H;Seale H, 2015, 'Exploring the approaches used to teach concepts of hand hygiene to Australian medical students', Journal of Infection Prevention, vol. 16, pp. 162 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177415580466

Korostil IA;Wood JG;Regan DG, 2015, 'Periodicity of varicella-zoster virus in the presence of immune boosting and clinical reinfection with varicella', Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, vol. 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12976-015-0002-5

Kwok YL A;Callard M;McLaws M-L, 2015, 'An automated hand hygiene training system improves hand hygiene technique but not compliance', American Journal of Infection Control, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.04.201

Kwok YL A;Gralton J;McLaws ML, 2015, 'Face touching: A frequent habit that has implications for hand hygiene', American Journal of Infection Control, vol. 43, pp. 112 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.015

MacIntyre CR, Chughtai AA. Face masks for the prevention of infection in healthcare and community settings. BMJ 2015;350:h694. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h694.

MacIntyre CR, Chughtai AA. Recurrence and reinfection– a new paradigm for management of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Int J Infect Dis 2015; 43:58-61.

MacIntyre CR, Seale H, Dung TC, Nguyen Tran Hien NT, Nga PT, Chughtai AA, Rahman B, Dwyer DE, Wang Q. A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ Open 2015;5:e006577 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577

MacIntyre CR;Chughtai AA;Seale H;Richards GA;Davidson PM, 2015, 'Uncertainty, risk analysis and change for Ebola personal protective equipment guidelines', International Journal of Nursing Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.12.001

MacIntyre CR;Seale H;Dung TC;Hien NT;Nga PT;Chughtai AA;Rahman B;Dwyer DE;Wang Q, 2015, 'A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers', BMJ Open, vol. 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577

MacIntyre R, Stein A, Harrison C, Britt H, Mahimbo A, Cunningham A (2015) Increasing Trends of Herpes Zoster in Australia. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0125025. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125025.

MacIntyre, C. R. Re-thinking the ethics of dual-use research of concern on transmissible pathogens. Environment, Systems and Decisions, 2015;35 (1):129-132. 10.1007/s10669-015-9534-9  

MacIntyre, CR, Travaglia, J. Heightened vulnerability, reduced oversight and ethical breaches on the Internet in the in West African Ebola epidemic. The American Journal of Bioethics, 2015.

MacIntyre, CR. Bio preparedness in the age of genetically engineered pathogens and open access science - an urgent need for a paradigm shift. Military Medicine, 2015; 180(9):943-9. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00482.

McLaws ML, 2015, 'The relationship between hand hygiene and health care-associated infection: It’s complicated', Infection and Drug Resistance, vol. 8, pp. 7 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IDR.S62704

McLaws ML;Farahangiz S;Palenik CJ;Askarian M, 2015, 'Iranian healthcare workers' perspective on hand hygiene: A qualitative study', Journal of Infection and Public Health, vol. 8, pp. 72 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2014.05.004

Menzies RI;Bremner KM;Wang H;Beard FH;McIntyre PB, 2015, 'Long-Term Trends in Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Type b Disease among Indigenous Australian Children Following use of PRP-OMP and PRP-T Vaccines', Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, vol. 34, pp. 621 - 626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000000681

Menzies RI;Jardine A;McIntyre PB, 2015, 'Pneumonia in Elderly Australians: Reduction in Presumptive Pneumococcal Hospitalizations but No Change in All-Cause Pneumonia Hospitalizations Following 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination', Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 61, pp. 927 - 933, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/civ429

Mukerji S, MacIntyre CR, Newall AT. Review of economic evaluations of mask and respirator use for protection against respiratory infection transmission. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2015;15(1).

O’Mahony JF, Newall AT, van Rosmalen J. Dealing with Time in Health Economic Evaluation: Methodological Issues and Recommendations for Practice. PharmacoEconomics. 2015;33(12):1255-68.

Ogochukwu Ibe, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Bonnie Cundill, Virginia Wiseman, Benjamin Uzochukwu and Obinna Onwujekwe. (2015) Quality of care for the treatment for uncomplicated malaria in South-East Nigeria: how important is socioeconomic status? International Journal for Equity in Health 14:19.

Ogunjimi B;Hens N;Pebody R;Jansens H;Seale H;Quinlivan M;Theeten H;Goossens H;Breuer J;Beutels P, 2015, 'Cytomegalovirus seropositivity is associated with herpes zoster', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, vol. 11, pp. 1394 - 1399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2015.1037999

Onwujekwe O; Mangham-Jefferies L; Cundill B; Alexander N; Langham J; Ibe O; Uzochukwu B; Wiseman V (2015) Effectiveness of Provider and Community Interventions to Improve Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Nigeria: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial, PLoS One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133832

Osterhaus A, Brooks A, Broberg E, MacIntyre R, Capua I. Why should influenza be a public health priority? Vaccine, 2015 Aug 25. pii: S0264-410X(15)01176-7. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.08.049. [Epub ahead of print]

Rashid H;Ridda I;King C;Begun M;Tekin H;Wood JG;Booy R, 2015, 'Evidence compendium and advice on social distancing and other related measures for response to an influenza pandemic', Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, vol. 16, pp. 119 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prrv.2014.01.003

Salmon DA, MacIntyre CR, Omer SB. Making mandatory vaccination truly compulsory: well-intentioned but ill conceived. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2015. 15(8):872-3.

Salmon S;McLaws ML, 2015, 'Environmental challenges of identifying a patient zone and the healthcare zone in a crowded Vietnamese hospital', Journal of Hospital Infection, vol. 91, pp. 45 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2015.04.020

Salmon S;McLaws M-L, 2015, 'Qualitative findings from focus group discussions on hand hygiene compliance among health care workers in Vietnam', American Journal of Infection Control, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.05.039

Salmon S;McLaws ML;Fisher D, 2015, 'Community-based care of Ebola virus disease in west Africa', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 15, pp. 151 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71080-1

Salmon S;Pittet D;Sax H;McLaws ML, 2015, 'The 'My five moments for hand hygiene' concept for the overcrowded setting in resource-limited healthcare systems', Journal of Hospital Infection, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2015.04.011

Scott N;Gabriel S;Sheppeard V;Peacock A;Scott C;Flego K;Forssman B;Seale H, 2015, 'Responding to a measles outbreak in a Pacific island community in western Sydney: community interviews led to church-based immunization clinics.', Western Pac Surveill Response J, vol. 6, pp. 51 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/WPSAR.2014.5.3.004

Seale H;Chughtai AA;Kaur R;Crowe P;Phillipson L;Novytska Y;Travaglia J, 2015, 'Ask, speak up, and be proactive: Empowering patient infection control to prevent health care-acquired infections', American Journal of Infection Control, vol. 43, pp. 447 - 453, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.01.007

Seale H;Chughtai AA;Kaur R;Phillipson L;Novytska Y;Travaglia J, 2015, 'Empowering patients in the hospital as a new approach to reducing the burden of health care-associated infections: The attitudes of hospital health care workers', American Journal of Infection Control, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.10.003

Seale H;Leem J-S;Gallard J;Kaur R;Chughtai A;Tashani M;MacIntyre CR, 2015, '“The cookie monster muffler”: Perceptions and behaviours of hospital healthcare workers around the use of masks and respirators in the hospital setting', International Journal of Infection Control, http://dx.doi.org/10.3396/IJIC.v11i1.006.15

Seale H;Novytska Y;Gallard J;Kaur R, 2015, 'Examining Hospital Patients' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Hospital-Acquired Infections and Their Participation in Infection Control', Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, vol. 36, pp. 461 - 463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2014.84

Seale H;Sitaresmi MN;Atthobari J;Heywood AE;Kaur R;MacIntyre RC;Soenarto Y;Padmawati RS, 2015, 'Knowledge and attitudes towards rotavirus diarrhea and the vaccine amongst healthcare providers in Yogyakarta Indonesia', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-1187-3

Seale H;Travaglia J;Chughtai AA;Phillipson L;Novytska Y;Kaur R, 2015, '‘I don’t want to cause any trouble’: the attitudes of hospital patients towards patient empowerment strategies to reduce healthcare-acquired infections', Journal of Infection Prevention, vol. 16, pp. 167 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177415588378

Seale, H., Sitaresmi, MN., Atthobari, J., Heywood, AE., Kaur, R., MacIntyre, CR., Soenarto, Y., Padmawati, RS. Knowledge and attitudes towards rotavirus diarrhoea and the vaccine amongst healthcare providers in Yogyakarta Indonesia. BMC Health Services Research, 2015; 15: 528.

Smith MA;Liu B;McIntyre P;Menzies R;Dey A;Canfell K, 2015, 'Fall in genital warts diagnoses in the general and indigenous australian population following implementation of a national human papillomavirus vaccination program: Analysis of routinely collected nat', Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 211, pp. 91 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiu370

Smithers-Sheedy H;Raynes-Greenow C;Badawi N;Khandaker G;Menzies R;Jones CA, 2015, 'Cytomegalovirus-related childhood mortality in Australia 1999-2011', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 51, pp. 901 - 905, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.12896

Teresa M. Wozniak, George Rubin, C. Raina MacIntyre. The emergence of community-acquired Clostridium difficile in an Australian hospital Original Research Article. Healthcare infection, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 72-77

Umeano-Enemuoh JC, Uzochukwu BS, Ezumah N, Mangham-Jefferies L, Wiseman V, Onwujekwe OE. (2015) A qualitative study on health workers' and community members' perceived sources, role of information and communication on malaria treatment, prevention and control in southeast, Nigeria. BMC Infectious Diseases 15:437.

Wood J, Heywood AE, Menzies R, McIntyre P, Macintyre CR. Predicting localised measles outbreak potential in Australia. Vaccine 2015 33(9):1176-81

Wood JG, Goeyvaerts N, MacIntyre CR, Menzies RI, McIntyre PB, Hens N. Estimating Vaccine Coverage from Serial Trivariate Serologic Data in the Presence of Waning Immunity. Epidemiology 2015;26(3):381-9. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000278.

Zhang D;Wu S;Zhang Y;Yang P;MacIntyre CR;Seale H;Wang Q, 2015, 'Health literacy in Beijing: An assessment of adults' knowledge and skills regarding communicable diseases', BMC Public Health, vol. 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2151-1

Zhang Y, Sun W, Svendsen ER, Tang S, MacIntyre CR, Yang P, Zhang D, Wang Q. Do corticosteroids reduce the mortality of influenza A (H1N1) infection? A meta-analysis. Crit Care 2015;19(46):1-11. doi: 10.1186/s13054-015-0764-5. Epub 2015 Feb 20.

 

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