Recent CCS publications: Week ending 9 Sept 2016

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Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of AIRmed, ACBD, Anaesthesia, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Sexual Health, Surgery:

Allergy, Immunology, Respiratory medicine

Blyth CC, Macartney KK, Hewagama S, Senenayake S, Friedman ND, Simpson G, Upham J, Kotsimbos T, Kelly P, Cheng AC. Influenza epidemiology, vaccine coverage and vaccine effectiveness in children admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2014: the Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN). Euro Surveill. 2016 Jul 28;21(30).

Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine

Myles PS, Kasza J. Physician Performance Rankings Based on Outcomes, Confirmed by the Same Outcomes: A Tautology. Anesth Analg. 2016 May;122(5):1718-9.

Myles PS, Chan MT, Kasza J, Paech MJ, Leslie K, Peyton PJ, Sessler DI, Haller G, Beattie WS, Osborne C, Sneyd JR, Forbes A. Severe Nausea and Vomiting in the Evaluation of Nitrous Oxide in the Gas Mixture for Anesthesia II Trial. Anesthesiology. 2016 May;124(5):1032-40.

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Seggewiss-Bernhardt R, Bargou RC, Goh YT, Stewart AK, Spencer A, Alegre A, Bladé J, Ottmann OG, Fernandez-Ibarra C, Lu H, Pain S, Akimov M, Iyer SP. Phase 1/1B trial of the heat shock protein 90 inhibitor NVP-AUY922 as monotherapy or in combination with bortezomib in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Cancer. 2015 Jul 1;121(13):2185-92. Epub 2015 Mar 24.

Infectious Diseases

Toh BE, Paterson DL, Kamolvit W, Zowawi H, Kvaskoff D, Sidjabat H, Wailan A, Peleg AY, Huber CA. Species identification within Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex using MALDI-TOF MS. J Microbiol Methods. 2015 Nov;118:128-32.   Epub 2015 Sep 14.

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Berk M, Woods RL, Nelson MR, Shah RC, Reid CM, Storey E, Fitzgerald SM, Lockery JE, Wolfe R, Mohebbi M, Murray AM, Kirpach B, Grimm R, McNeil JJ. ASPREE-D: Aspirin for the prevention of depression in the elderly. Int Psychogeriatr. 2016 May 31:1-8. [Epub ahead of print]

Chow EP, Dutt K, Fehler G, Denham I, Chen MY, Batrouney C, Peel J, Read TR, Bradshaw CS, Fairley CK. Duration of syphilis symptoms at presentations in men who have sex with men in Australia: are current public health campaigns effective? Epidemiol Infect. 2016 Jan;144(1):113-22. Epub 2015 Jun 1.

Chow EP, Fairley CK. Assortative sexual mixing among heterosexuals in Australia: implications for herd protection in males from a female human papillomavirus vaccination program. Sex Health. 2016 May 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Fairley CK, Ong JJ, Chow EP. Epidemics of STIs; ask why. Sex Transm Infect. 2016 Aug;92(5):329-30

Falcão JR, Bradshaw CC, Garrett CC, Bilardi JE, Chen MY, Zablotska I, Fairley CK, Williams H. Views of HIV-negative partners in heterosexual serodiscordant relationships regarding HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: a qualitative study. Sex Transm Infect. 2016 Aug;92(5):368-70. Epub 2015 Oct 15.

Samaraweera GR, Garcia K, Druce J, Williams H, Bradshaw CS, Fairley CK, Chow EP, Denham IM, Read TR, Chen MY. Characteristics of adenovirus urethritis among heterosexual men and men who have sex with men: a review of clinical cases. Sex Transm Infect. 2016 May;92(3):172-4. Epub 2015 Nov 16.

Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre

Green AE, Fitzgerald PB, Johnston PJ, Nathan PJ, Kulkarni J, Croft RJ. Evidence for a differential contribution of early perceptual and late cognitive processes during encoding to episodic memory impairment in schizophrenia. World J Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Aug 30:1-13. [Epub ahead of print]

Surgery

Brown WA, Smith BR, Boglis M, Brown DL, Anderson M, O'Brien PE, McNeil JJ, Caterson ID. Streamlining ethics review for multisite quality and safety initiatives: national bariatric surgery registry experience. Med J Aust. 2016 Sep 5;205(5):200-1.