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| Volume: 12 Number: 1 | |||||
| EDITORIAL | |||||
| In This Issue of The Annals | |||||
| Derek R. Smith, John M. Goldsmid, Peter A. Leggat and John Frean | Page 1 | ||||
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE | |||||
| A Malaria Program Response to an Outbreak in a Southern Highlands Village, Papua New Guinea | |||||
| Ronelle E. Welton, Gordon Manub, Moses Tepra, Kerry Lorry, Reuben Jim and Guma Kayani | Page 2 | ||||
| REVIEW ARTICLES | |||||
| Chikungunya - An Emerging Arbovirus Infection | |||||
| Oliver Venettacci, Stephanie Swallow and Richard S. Bradbury | Page 7 | ||||
| Factors Influencing Mother-to-Child HIV Infection - A Ten Year Update on Research in Sub-Saharan Africa | |||||
| Hayden L. Farquhar | Page 11 | ||||
| Neonatal Infections: Causes to Consider in Developing Countries | |||||
| Kathleen M. McCloskey | Page 22 | ||||
| TECHNICAL REPORT | |||||
| An Evaluation of the Pastorex Toxo Latex Agglutination Test as a Screening Tool for Toxoplasma gondiiAntibody Detection in a South African Setting | |||||
| Kesenthri Kistiah, John Frean, Antonio Barragan, Jadwiga Winiecka-Krusnell and Alan Karstaedt | Page 25 | ||||
| CASE REPORT | |||||
| Occult Schistosomiasis Haematobia in a Traveller Returned from Africa | |||||
| Richard S. Bradbury and Koji Wada | Page 28 | ||||
| ANNOUNCEMENT | |||||
| ACTM /QTHA Annual Conference 2011 | |||||
| Volume: 11 Number: 2 | |||||
| EDITORIAL | |||||
| The “100 Years of Tropical Medicine Conference” | |||||
| David C. Porter, Peter A. Leggat and Derek R. Smith | Page 29 | ||||
| CONFERENCE MATERIAL | |||||
| Conference Program | |||||
| Page 32 | |||||
| Biographies | |||||
| Emeritus Professor David A. Warrell | Page 38 | ||||
| Emeritus Professor Robert Steffen | Page 38 | ||||
| Professor Dato Dr CP Ramachandran | Page 38 | ||||
| Dr Santanu Chatterjee | Page 38 | ||||
| Professor Sandra Harding | Page 38 | ||||
| Professor Robin A. Cooke | Page 38 | ||||
| Associate Professor Tim Inglis | Page 38 | ||||
| Major-General Paul Alexander | Page 39 | ||||
| Professor Peter A. Leggat | Page 39 | ||||
| Professor Rick Speare | Page 39 | ||||
| Jeff Warner | Page 39 | ||||
| Associate Professor Gracelyn Smallwood | Page 39 | ||||
| Professor Derek R. Smith | Page 39 | ||||
| Dr John Heydon | Page 39 | ||||
| Dr Susan Heydon | Page 39 | ||||
| Associate Professor David C. Porter | Page 40 | ||||
| Dr Andrew Johnson | Page 40 | ||||
| Dr Chris Hogan | Page 40 | ||||
| Dr Matthew Meerkin | Page 40 | ||||
| Dr Carolyn Hullick | Page 40 | ||||
| Ailsa Bunker | Page 40 | ||||
| Penny Petinos | Page 40 | ||||
| Rosemary Cooper | Page 40 | ||||
| Poster Abstracts | |||||
| The Art of Artesunate Quality Testing in the Field | |||||
| Reuben Jim, Ronelle Welton, Jan Rozendaal, Cathy Tomo (Public Health Unit, Oil Search Limited PNG, Moro, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea | Page 41 | ||||
| Never Too Old: Is this the Oldest Reported Patient with Infectious Mononucleosis? Epstein-Barr Virus Infection and Immunosenescence in Extreme Longevity | |||||
| Lyndall Dial, Sue Moreton, Peter Davidson, Lydia Pitcher, Erin Simleit, Kimmy Lim, Fabian Lim (Haematology Department, QML Pathology, Brisbane), Shane Sondergeld (Walton Bridge Medical Centre, Brisbane) | Page 41 | ||||
| Dengue Drama for the Tropics | |||||
| Kimmy Lim, Lyndall Dial, Peter Dines, Lydia Pitcher (Haematology Department, Queensland Medical Laboratory, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) Cairns Lab (Cairns Laboratory, Queensland Medical Laboratory, Cairns, Queensland, Australia) Townsville Laboratory (Queensland Medical Laboratory, Townsville, Queensland, Australia) | Page 41 | ||||
| KoRV (Koala Retrovirus) Associated Acute Leukaemia/Lymphona | |||||
| Lyndall Dial, Kimmy Lim, Fabian Lim, Lydia Pitcher (Haematology Department, QML Pathology, Brisbane, Queensland), Shaun Hickey, Brett Stone (Vetnostics Department, QML Pathology, Brisbane, Queensland) | Page 41 | ||||
| Harmful Algal and Cyanobacterial Toxins Research at Queensland Health | |||||
| Peter James, Geoff Brown, Wasantha Wickramasinghe, Sue Poole, Glenn McGregor, Ross Sadler, Barbara Sendall, Tony Carroll, Alan Seawright, A’edah Abu Bakar, Matti Lang, Michael Bartkow, Glen Shaw, (Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services; School of Public Health, Griffith University; University of the Sunshine Coast; Agri-Science Queensland, Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation; National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology (Entox), University of Queensland; Department of Environment and Resource Management; School of Environment, Griffith University; Eskitis Institute for Cellular and Molecular Therapies, Griffith University; Seqwater; Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia) | Page 42 | ||||
| Analysis of SFRP1 Gene Expression Levels on Breast Cancer Samples Derived from Formalin-Fixed-Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Tissue Can Be Used to Determine Cancer Progression and Prognosis | |||||
| Annette Lane, Peter Simpson, Ana Cristina Vargas, Lynne Reid, Leonard Da Silva, Sunil Lakhani (Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, RBWH, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 42 | ||||
| HELLP Syndrome | |||||
| Marco DiGirolamo, Amy Farman (SA Pathology, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, Australia) | Page 42 | ||||
| Anti-Mullerian Hormone - A Measure of Ovarian Reserve | |||||
| Sheree Howells, Lyn Krebs, Greg Ward, L Price (Biochemistry Laboratory, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology (SNP) Taringa, Queensland, Australia | Page 42 | ||||
| Sero-Epidemiological Study of Rickettsial Spotted Fever Group Antibodies Among High-Risk Human Populations on Barrow Island and Southwest Western Australia | |||||
| Yazid Abdad (Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, VIC, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, WA), John Dyer (Fremantle Hospital, WA), Angus Cook (School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, WA), John Stenos (Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, VIC) and Stan Fenwick (School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, WA) | Page 42 | ||||
| “Up in the Air” – Safety and Security of Travellers | |||||
| Peter A Leggat (School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 43 | ||||
| Improving Client Services | |||||
| Debbie Elliott (CSR staff Gold Coast, Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia) | Page 43 | ||||
| Pre-Analytical Processing in CSR | |||||
| Debbie Elliott (CSR staff Gold Coast Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia) | Page 43 | ||||
| Seroprevalence to Q Fever (Coxiella Burnetti) Amongst Residents of the Hunter New England Region of New South Wales | |||||
| A Islam, J Ferguson, R Givney, Stephen Graves (No Affiliations Provided) | Page 43 | ||||
| Global Mortality From Jellyfish Stings 1996-2010 | |||||
| Peter J Fenner, M Corkeron, L A Gershwin(James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia), Ken D Winkel (Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) | Page 43 | ||||
| The Impact of “Niche” Education Programs on Student Enrolments in a School of Public Health | |||||
| Peter Aitken, Lawrence Brown, Peter A Leggat, and Rick Speare (Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine; Emergency Department, The Townsville Hospital, Douglas, Queensland, Australia) | Page 43 | ||||
| Preparedness for Short-Term Isolation among Queensland Residents: Implications for Pandemic Disease and Disaster Planning | |||||
| Peter Aitken, Lawrence Brown, Peter A Leggat, and Rick Speare (Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Emergency Department, The Townsville Hospital, Douglas, Queensland, Australia) | Page 44 | ||||
| Problem Solving in Immuno-Haematology: Genotyping As an Adjunct to Serology | |||||
| Robert Flower (Research and Business Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, Queensland), Yew-Wah Lieu, Brett Wilson (Red Cell Reference Laboratory, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), Glenda Millard, Helen O’Brien and Catherine Hyland (Research and Business Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, Queensland) | Page 44 | ||||
| Crocodiles: Potential Carriers for Mycobacteria Ulcerans? | |||||
| Jennifer Vaughn, Alastair Smith, John McBride and Brenda Govan, Ellen Ariel (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 44 | ||||
| Spontaneous Fermentation of Sago Starch Derived from Papua New Guinea | |||||
| Elizabeth Nasing (Environmental and Public Health Research Group, Microbiology and Immunology James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland; Australia), Andrew Greenhill(Environmental and Public Health Research Group, Microbiology and Immunology James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland; Australia and Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Gorkoa, Papua New Guinea), and Jeff Warner (Environmental and Public Health Research Group, Microbiology and Immunology James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland; Australia) | Page 44 | ||||
| The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and 100 Years of Tropical Medicine | |||||
| Peter A Leggat (Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 44 | ||||
| The Australian Travel Health Advisory Group: Activities of a Joint Travel Industry and Travel Medicine Group Promoting Healthy Travel | |||||
| Peter A Leggat (James Cook University, Australia) , B Hudson (Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia and James Cook University, Australia), N Zwar (University of New South Wales, Australia), B Claxton (4Virgin Blue, Australia) on behalf of the Travel Health Advisory Group | Page 45 | ||||
| Legacies of the Leishmans | |||||
| David Porter (Pathology Queensland, The Townsville Hospital,Townsville, Queensland), Margaret Coten (Leishman Historian, Bicton, Perth, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| Ulcers, Bites, Trauma, Infection or What? | |||||
| Alison Boyd, T Olejniczak, J Boyd, R Williams (St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Northern Hospital, Melbourne, Royal Darwin Hospital, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| A Sub-Faculty of Expedition Medicine for Australasia | |||||
| Marc T M Shaw (Worldwise New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand and Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) and Peter A Leggat (Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| Workshop and Oral Presentations | |||||
| Histochemical Workshop | |||||
| Assessing the Quality of Tissue Processing: It’s Not Easy! | |||||
| Geoffrey Rolls - Leica Microsystems Ltd, Mount Waverley Victoria, Australia | Page 47 | ||||
| Digital Photography and Photomicroscopy – Hands on Workshop | |||||
| Robin Cooke - Graduate School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia | Page 47 | ||||
| Travel Medicine Satellite Symposium | |||||
| Conference Report | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat - School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia | Page 47 | ||||
| Hepatitis - Where do we stand, where should we stand? | |||||
| Robert Steffen - Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of Communicable Diseases, University of Zurich, Switzerland | Page 47 | ||||
| Decennial Lecture Oral Paper | |||||
| “Up in the Air” – Safety and Security of Travellers | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat - School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia | Page 48 | ||||
| Keynote Address | |||||
| Snake Bite Envenoming: 100 Years of Australian Contributions to Combating the World’s Most Neglected Tropical Disease | |||||
| David Warrell - Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK | Page 48 | ||||
| Oral Presentation | |||||
| Anton Breinl and his Legacy of Institutes and Centres | |||||
| Rick Speare - Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia | Page 48 | ||||
| Eye Worms, Leprosy, Ticks and Plague: An Account of the Life and Work of John Fielding FRMS, Founding Medical Laboratory Technologist in the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine | |||||
| Leigh Winsor Health, Safety & Rehabilitation Office, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia | Page 48 | ||||
| Another Nasty Mosquito Disease Kindly Brought to you by the Indo-Papuan Conveyor | |||||
| Scott Ritchie - James Cook University, Cairns, Australia | Page 49 | ||||
| Sago Haemolytic Disease: Pigbel of the PNG Lowlands | |||||
| Jeffrey Warner (Environmental and Public Health Research Group, Microbiology and Immunology James Cook University), Andrew Greenhill1 (Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Gorkoa, Papua New Guinea), Asiak Pue (University of Queensland, Entox; Australia and Department of Primary Industry, Brisbane, Australia), Jack Ng (University of Queensland, Entox; Australia), Mary Fletcher (Department of Primary Industry, Brisbane, Australia), Elizabeth Nasing, Miila Gena1, Latifeh Atagazi1, Warren Shipton (Environmental and Public Health Research Group, Microbiology and Immunology James Cook University; Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| Risk and Prevention of Neurological Infections in Travellers | |||||
| Robert Steffen (Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of Communicable Diseases, University of Zurich, Switzerland) | Page 49 | ||||
| The Pharmaceutical Care Risks of International Travellers | |||||
| Ian Heslop, Michelle Bellingan (School of Pharmacy & Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia), Richard Speare (School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia), Beverley Glass (School of Pharmacy & Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| Haemovigilance: A Global Perspective | |||||
| Chris Hogan (National Blood Authority, Canberra, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| Dengue Fever Viral Exposure Rates Among Australian Blood Donors During Local Outbreaks | |||||
| Robert Flower, Jesse Fryk, Catherine Hyland (Research and Business Development, The Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), John McBride (James Cook University, Cairns Campus, Cairns, Queensland, Australia), Scott Ritchie (James Cook University, Cairns Campus, Cairns, Queensland, Australia and Tropical Public Health Unit Network, Queensland Health, Cairns, Queensland, Australia), Helen Faddy (Research and Business Development, The Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) in Life Sciences and Medicine - Translational Considerations for the Medical Scientist | |||||
| Filip Braet (Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| Phlebotomy – Aiming for Excellence - The New Zealand Experience | |||||
| Ailsa Bunker (Middlemore Hospital Laboratory, Auckland, New Zealand) | Page 50 | ||||
| Central Station at the Pathology Queensland Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Central Laboratory | |||||
| Lara Keller, Angela Coriat (Pathology Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| Pre and Post Analytical Pathology: Part of the Holy Trinity or Are They the Ugly Sisters? | |||||
| Grant McBride (Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| Sun-Safe Clothing Helps to Prevent the Development of Pigment¬ed Moles – Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial in Young Australian Children | |||||
| Simone Harrison, PG Buettner, R MacLennan, J Woosnam, L Hutton, M Nowak (Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; and Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 51 | ||||
| Non-melanoma Skin Cancer in Tropical Queensland: Implications for Cancer Treatment Resources | |||||
| Michael Collins (Townsville Cancer Centre and North Queensland Cancer Services, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Australia) | Page 51 | ||||
| Making Outdoor Workers Use Sun Protection is the Most Important Step in Reducing the High Rates of Epithelial Skin Cancer in North Queensland Men | |||||
| Torres Woolley (Skin Cancer Research Group, North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 51 | ||||
| An Evaluation of the Sun Protective Practices of Townsville Primary School Students | |||||
| Denise Trapp, Simone Harrison, Madeleine Nowak, Petra Buettner (Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia) | Page 51 | ||||
| Does Single Application of Topical Chloramphenicol to Sutured Wounds Reduce Incidence of Wound Infection After Minor Sur¬gery? Prospective Randomised Placebo Controlled Double Blind Trial | |||||
| Clare F Heal, Petra G Buettner (James Cook University, Queensland, Australia), Robert Cruikshank, David Graham (Walkerston Medical Centre, Mackay, Queensland, Australia), Sheldon Browning (James Cook University, Queensland, Australia), Jayne Pendergast(Walkerston Medical Centre, Mackay, Queensland, Australia), Herwig Drobetz, Carl Lisec (James Cook University, Queensland, Australia) | Page 52 | ||||
| The Impact of Tourism in Developing Countries on Local Host Communities - The Nurses’ Role | |||||
| Irmgard Bauer (School of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 52 | ||||
| Defence Health Reform in a Time of Strategic Change | |||||
| Kerry Clifford (Joint Health Command, Australian Defence Force Lavarack Barracks Medical Centre, La¬varack Barracks, Townsville, Australia) | Page 52 | ||||
| Collaboration in Research: Gaining a District Wide Snapshot of Staff Knowledge about Dementia | |||||
| Wendy Smyth (Queensland Health, Australia), Anne Gardner (Queensland Health, Australia & James Cook University, Townsville, Australia), Sonia Hines, Elaine Fielding, Sara Franklin (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Wendy Moyle (Griffith University, Australia), Elizabeth Beattie (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) | Page 52 | ||||
| Keeping the Dressing On: Haemodialysis Central Venous Catheter Dressings in the Tropics | |||||
| Kim Hughes, Joleen McArdle (Queensland Health, Australia), Anne Gardner(Queensland Health, Australia & James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 53 | ||||
| Modern Microbiology in the Tropics | |||||
| Roderick Campbell (Retired Emeritus Professor, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 53 | ||||
| Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vets and Infection Control | |||||
| Rick Speare, Diana Mendez, Jen Cox, Jenni Judd (Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 53 | ||||
| Q Fever in Holland: An Australian Perspective | |||||
| Stephen Graves (Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory and Division of Microbiology, Hunter Area Pathology Service, Newcastle, Australia) | Page 53 | ||||
| A Case of Fitzhugh-Curtis Syndrome | |||||
| Fleur Francis (Pathology Queensland, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Australia) | Page 53 | ||||
| Field Applications of Molecular Microbiology | |||||
| Tim J Inglis (Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Path West Laboratory Medicine, Perth, Western Australia) | Page 54 | ||||
| Alcoholic Liver Dysfunction: A Case Presentation | |||||
| Matthew Meerkin (University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia) | Page 54 | ||||
| Cardiac Transplantation at the Crossroads: A Call for Improved Cardioprotection of the Donor Heart | |||||
| Geoffrey P Dobson, Donna M Rudd (Heart Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 54 | ||||
| Hyponatraemia in Emergency Department Patients in Tropical North Queensland | |||||
| Usman H Malabu, D Porter, S Cooksley, RL Kennedy (School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 54 | ||||
| Improved Plasma Lipid Profile with Nuts High in Monounsaturated or Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | |||||
| Malcolm Forbes, A Joseph, A Gardner, RL Kennedy (Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 54 | ||||
| Vitamin D Levels of Adults from Townsville - A City in Tropical Australia | |||||
| Madeleine Nowak, Simone Lee Harrison, Petra G Buettner (School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Science within the North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University, Townsville Queensland, Australia), Michael Kimlin (School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Science within the North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University, Townsville Queensland, Australia, & Australian Sun and Health Research Laboratory, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia), David Porter (School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Science within the North Queen¬sland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University, Townsville Queensland, Australia & Pathology Queensland, Queensland Health, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia), Lee Kennedy (School of Medicine and the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, within the North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia), Rick Speare (School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Science within the North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University, Townsville Queensland, Australia) | Page 55 | ||||
| Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma – An Overview of the Histology and Subsequent New Chemotherapy and Gene-Targeted Treatment Options | |||||
| Anthony van Zwieten (Northside Pathology, Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 55 | ||||
| Parasitology and Mycology in Anatomical Pathology | |||||
| Robin A Cooke (Graduate School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 55 | ||||
| KIMMS - Key Incident Monitoring and Management System | |||||
| Penny Petinos, Kathy Bayley, Mark Mackay, David Bryce, David Porter (RCPA KIMMS QAP, Sydney, Australia) | Page 55 | ||||
| The Health and Economic Costs of Pre and Post Analytical Errors | |||||
| David Porter (Pathology Queensland, Australia & James Cook University, Townsville, Australia), Jennie Gibney, Neil Silvester, Jena Paterson (Pathology Queensland, Australia), Melissa MacCabe (The Townsville Health Service District), Bree Williams (Pathology Queensland), Wayne Armistead, Natalie Wilson, Monica Trujillo (The Townsville Health Service District) | Page 55 | ||||
| Emergency Donor Panels: Managing the Risk of Emergency Blood Supply in Rural and Remote Queensland | |||||
| Gina Clare Queensland Blood Management Program, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, Australia | Page 56 | ||||
| Blood at the Base - Mount Isa Hospital’s Massive Transfusion | |||||
| Christopher Buck (Mackay Base Hospital, Mackay, Australia) | Page 56 | ||||
| We Know We Care, But Can We Do Better? Reducing Red Cell Consumption and Costs through Better Management of Inventory | |||||
| Geoff Simon (Queensland Blood Management Program, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, Australia) | Page 56 | ||||
| A Review of Laboratory Performance Using the RCPA Transfusion QAP Over the Last 25 Years | |||||
| Arthur Joyce (Mater Pathology, Brisbane, Australia), John Rowell (Pathology Queensland), Allan Sandercock, Neville (RCPA Transfusion QAP, Queensland, Australia) | Page 56 | ||||
| Volume: 11 Number: 1 | |||||
| EDITORIAL | |||||
| The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine Turns 100: celebrating the Centenary of Tropical Medicine | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat and Derek R. Smith | Page 1 | ||||
| In this Issue of the Annals | |||||
| Derek R. Smith, John M. Goldsmid, Peter A. Leggat and John Frean | Page 4 | ||||
| REVIEW ARTICLES | |||||
| Celebrating and Reflecting on the Centenary of Tropical Medicine in Australia, 1910-2010 | |||||
| Susan Heydon | Page 5 | ||||
| Occupational Travel Medicine: Protecting the Health and Safety of Those Who Regularly Travel Overseas for Work | |||||
| Derek R. Smith and Peter A. Leggat | Page 8 | ||||
| Preparing for Future Voyages of Discovery and Their Medical Challenges. Part 1: Ernest Sandford Jackson, 1860-1938 | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat and Derek R. Smith | Page 12 | ||||
| PARASITOLOGY THEMED SECTION | |||||
| Case Reports | |||||
| An Unusual Helminth Infection in a South East Asian Refugee | |||||
| Richard S. Bradbury, Carol R. Males and John M. Goldsmid | Page 16 | ||||
| A Case of Intestinal Myiasis - Fact or Fiction? | |||||
| Richard S. Bradbury | Page 19 | ||||
| Case Series | |||||
| Delusional Parasitosis: Case Series and a Review of the Literature | |||||
| John Frean | Page 21 | ||||
| Technical Report | |||||
| Morphological Observations on Pentatrichomonas hominis,Enteromonas hominis and Rodentolepis nana | |||||
| Richard S. Bradbury, Carol R. Males and Alan Thomas | Page 24 | ||||
| COMMENTARY | |||||
| Expedition Medicine: Launch of the College’s First Sub-Faculty | |||||
| Marc Shaw and Peter A. Leggat | Page 26 | ||||
| ANNOUNCEMENT | |||||
| 25th Annual North Queensland AIMS Conference / 19th Annual ACTM Scientific Meeting | |||||
| Volume: 10 Number: 2 | |||||
| EDITORIAL | |||||
| In This Issue of the Annals | |||||
| Derek R. Smith, John M. Goldsmid, Peter A. Leggat and John Frean | Page 33 | ||||
| ORIGINAL RESEARCH | |||||
| Malaria in Australia: Current Trends and Future Risks | |||||
| Rod Nan Tie | Page 34 | ||||
| ASHDOWN ORATION | |||||
| Possible Reasons for the Geographic Expansion of Dengue | |||||
| Annelies Wilder-Smith | Page 38 | ||||
| COPEMAN ORATION | |||||
| Sir Edmond Hillary, ‘Modern’ Medicine and International Aid | |||||
| Susan Heydon | Page 41 | ||||
| CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS | |||||
| ORAL PRESENTATIONS | |||||
| BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION: WHERE WE ARE IN 2009 | |||||
| K MacDonald - BMT Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia | Page 44 | ||||
| DANCING WITH FUNGUS | |||||
| DH Ellis - Mycology Unit, SA Pathology at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia | Page 44 | ||||
| INTERESTING CASES | |||||
| R Guard - Pathology Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia | Page 44 | ||||
| HISTORY OF THE ELUCIDATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES - Q FEVER, CHOLERA AND MALARIA | |||||
| R Cooke - Pathology Queensland and the University of Queensland Medical School, Brisbane, Australia | Page 44 | ||||
| FORENSIC PATHOLOGY | |||||
| N Buxton - Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Rockhampton, Australia | Page 44 | ||||
| I’LL BE BACK… (Lemierres syndrome) | |||||
| P Derrington - Pathology Queensland, Gold Coast Hospital, Australia | Page 44 | ||||
| PANDEMIC INFLUENZA | |||||
| R Vohra - Queensland Medical Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Murarrie, Australia | Page 44 | ||||
| NON-MULTIRESISTANT MRSA IN QUEENSLAND | |||||
| G Nimmo (Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Herston), JM Schooneveldt, JL Sutherland, S Power (Department of Microbiology, Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Herston Hospitals Complex), DL Paterson (Department of Microbiology, Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Herston Hospitals Complex,Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Herston & Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention, Queensland Health, Brisbane), D Olesen (Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention, Queensland Health, Brisbane), C Selvey,F Beard (Communicable Diseases Branch, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| FERTILITY ISSUES: NOT JUST A FEMALE PROBLEM | |||||
| P Applegarth (Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Rockhampton, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS IN ACUTE LEUKAEMIAS | |||||
| LJ Campbell (Victorian Cancer Cytogenetics Service, St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| INTERESTING CASES | |||||
| G Rozenberg (Department of Haematology, SEALS Randwick, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| LYMPHOMA ESSENTIALS | |||||
| A Shearer (Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| MALARIA – SOME TOPICS OF INTEREST | |||||
| D Burns (Pathology Queensland, Central Laboratory, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THE EMERGENCE OF DENGUE | |||||
| A Wilder-Smith (National University of Singapore, Singapore) | Page 45 | ||||
| TRENDS IN ANTIMALARIAL PRESCRIPTIONS IN AUSTRALIA,1992-2006 | |||||
| P Leggat(Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 45 | ||||
| NOT YOUR USUAL OLD PARASITES | |||||
| R Bradbury (Microbiology Department, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia),J Goldsmid (School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| MANAGING FATIGUE IN A 24 HOUR SOCIETY | |||||
| P Smith (Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| MEDICAL LABORATORY WORKFORCE ISSUES IN AUSTRALIA | |||||
| T Badrick (Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| WORK - LIFE BALANCE | |||||
| J Bell (Monash IVF, Rockhampton, Australia) | Page 47 | ||||
| THE EFFECT OF AIR TRAVEL ON STRESS AND IMMUNOLOGICAL MAKERS | |||||
| A Wilder-Smith A, CM Peng, D Koh, CM Peng, I Hossain, A Earnest and P McAry (Department of Medicine, National University Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore) | Page 47 | ||||
| THE POTENTIAL FOR LEISHMANIASIS IN RETURNING AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS | |||||
| R Bradbury (Microbiology Department, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia) | Page 47 | ||||
| LEISHMANIASIS | |||||
| R Cooke (Pathology Queensland, University of Queensland Medical School, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 47 | ||||
| MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND TROPONIN - THE “ROCKY” ROAD | |||||
| JPJ Ungerer (Department of Chemical Pathology, Pathology Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 47 | ||||
| INTERESTING CASES | |||||
| T Badrick (Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Australia) | Page 47 | ||||
| CASE STUDIES - THREE INHERITED PAEDIATRIC BONE DISEASES | |||||
| M DiGirolamo (Automated Laboratory, SA Pathology, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) | Page 47 | ||||
| EVALUATION OF MARKERS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE - ASSESSMENT OF CHANGES IN PLASMA MARKERS OF INFLAMMATION, OXIDATIVE STRESS AND NITRIC OXIDE FOLLOWING A RURAL TERTIARY OUTPATIENT CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAM | |||||
| A Fenning, A Voss (Department of Living Systems, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia), L Knott and F Coulson (The Range Medical Practice and Cardiac Rehabilitation, St Andrew’s Hospital, Toowoomba, Australia) | Page 48 | ||||
| SIR EDMUND HILLARY, ‘MODERN’ MEDICINE AND INTERNATIONAL AID | |||||
| SJ Heydon (School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) | Page 48 | ||||
| HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANNALS OF THE AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS IN OUR FIELD | |||||
| DR Smith(School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, Australia; Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville,Australia), PA Leggat (Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, Australia), JM Goldsmid (Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia) and J Frean (National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) | Page 48 | ||||
| THE CHALLENGE FOR MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS TO CONTRIBUTE EFFECTIVELY TO TROPICAL MEDICINE | |||||
| D Porter (Pathology Queensland, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Australia) | Page 48 | ||||
| THE PRECISION OF COMMERCIAL 25 HYDROXY VITAMIN D TESTING IS SUB-OPTIMAL | |||||
| SL Harrison, M Nowak, PG Buettner, M Kimlin, D Porter (Pathology Queensland, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Australia), RL Kennedy and R Speare(Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.) | Page 49 | ||||
| HYPONATRAEMIA AS A MORBIDITY PREDICTOR (HYPONATRAEMIA IN ACUTE MEDICAL ADMISSIONS IN TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND) | |||||
| RL Kennedy, U Malabu, K Oman and D Porter (Department of Medicine, James Cook University and The Townsville Hospital, Queensland, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| ARBOVIRUSES IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA | |||||
| DW Smith (Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands; Discipline of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands; Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| Q FEVER / LEPTOSPIROSIS | |||||
| R Gibb (Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| EVOLUTION OF DENGUE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN IN NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA | |||||
| P Leggat (Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| EVALUATION OF THREE IMMUNOASSAYS FOR THE RAPID DIAGNOSIS OF NOROVIRUS | |||||
| P Derrington (Pathology Queensland, Gold Coast Hospital, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| MASSIVE BLOOD TRANSFUSION | |||||
| R Bird (Pathology Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 49 | ||||
| IMMUNOHAEMATOLOGY OF BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION | |||||
| S Williams (Transfusion Department, Pathology Queensland, Central Laboratory, Herston, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| A CASE HISTORY OF BLUE RUBBER BLEB NEVA SYNDROME | |||||
| T Kirkbride (Pathology Queensland, Rockhampton, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| CURRENT ISSUES IN TRANSFUSION - IMPACT IN REGIONAL AREAS | |||||
| JA Rowell (Haematology, Pathology Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| SOLVING THE ANAEMIA PUZZLE | |||||
| R Wells (Core Haematology Department, Pathology Queensland, Central Laboratory, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| MELIOIDOSIS - A CASE STUDY | |||||
| RJ Lord (Microbiology, Pathology Queensland, Rockhampton, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| ORDERING AND RECEIPTING BLOOD SYSTEM (ORBS) - WHAT IS IT TELLING US? | |||||
| GI Simon (Queensland Blood Management Program, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| PARASITOLOGY WORKSHOP | |||||
| R Bradbury (Microbiology Department, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| PLEBOTOMY PROGRAM | |||||
| OPERATIONAL CAREER PATHS IN PATHOLOGY QUEENSLAND | |||||
| L Higginson (Manager Skills Development Unit, Pathology Queensland, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| NUCHAL FOLD TRANSLUCENCY TESTING | |||||
| M Woodhead (Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| SWINE FLU FROM A COLLECTORS POINT OF VIEW | |||||
| D Stockton (Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| SCIENCE BEHIND THE TUBES | |||||
| C Clarke (BD Diagnostics, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| THE IMPACT OF PRE-ANALYTICAL ERROR | |||||
| R Scott (Pathology Queensland, Townsville, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| WHY CAUSE PAIN WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE TO? | |||||
| D Gercovich (Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| DEALING WITH DIFFICULT CUSTOMERS … NOT TECHNICALLY DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS | |||||
| VEIN VIEWER - DEMONSTRATION | |||||
| C Kennedy (Device Technologies, Australia) | Page 46 | ||||
| POSTERS | |||||
| THE AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE: APPROACHING THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE | |||||
| PA Leggat (Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 50 | ||||
| HAND DERMATITIS AMONG VETERINARIANS FROM QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA | |||||
| PA Leggat (Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia1; WorkCover New South Wales Research Centre of Excellence, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah,Australia), D R Smith (WorkCover New South Wales Research Centre of Excellence, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, Australia, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) and R Speare (Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) | Page 51 | ||||
| AN AUSTRALIAN MALARIA EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM | |||||
| R Wells (Pathology Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston Australia), R Lee (Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia), J Sioufi (RCPA Haematology QAP, Westmead, Australia), S Neville (RCPA Haematology QAP, Westmead, Australia) and K Marsden (RCPA Haematology QAP, Westmead, Pathology Services, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia) | Page 51 | ||||
| ILLNESS AND INJURY TO TRAVELLERS ON A PREMIUM SENIORS’ TOUR TO INDOCHINA | |||||
| MTM Shaw(Worldwise Travellers Health Centres of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia) and PA Leggat (School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia) | Page 51 | ||||
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | |||||
| The Memoirs of Margaretha Isaäcson (1929-2001) | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat (Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville,Australia; WorkCover New South Wales Research Centre of Excellence, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, Australia) | Page 52 | ||||
| Evidence-Based Research and Clinical Trials | |||||
| John Goldsmid (Professor Emeritus Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Australia) | Page 52 | ||||
| INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS | |||||
| Volume: 8 Number: 1 | |||||
| CONFERENCE PROGRAM/TIMETABLE SUPPLEMENT | |||||
| INVITED EDITORIALS: | |||||
| The Centenary of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1907-2007 | |||||
| Professor Peter Leggat | Page 1 | ||||
| One Hundred Years of Tropical Medicine: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals | |||||
| Dr Alan Hauquitz and Professor Peter Leggat | Page 1 | ||||
| INVITED REVIEW: | |||||
| Cancer in the tropics and tropical cancers: an overview | |||||
| Dr Alan Mills | Page 1 | ||||
| CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: Tropical health and cancer research in clinical practice | |||||
| Oral Presentations | |||||
| THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE | |||||
| RSTM&H CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM OPENING ADDRESS: “ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE | |||||
| Leggat PA, The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 12 | ||||
| VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES OF SIGNIFICANCE IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA | |||||
| John McBride, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland | Page 12 | ||||
| THE GLOBAL PROGRAMME TO ELIMINATE LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS-AN UPDATE | |||||
| Prof. Dato. Dr. C. P. Ramachandran, Universiti Putra Malaysia | Page 13 | ||||
| RSTM&H CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM SESSION II | |||||
| THE SEVENTY-YEAR WAR AGAINST LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS IN THE PACIFIC: ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF CLAIMING VICTORY? | |||||
| Wayne Melrose, WHO Collaborating Centre for Control of Lymphatic Filariasis, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 13 | ||||
| SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS OF IMPORTANCE IN AUSTRALIA | |||||
| Rick Speare, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland. Email. richard.speare@jcu.edu.au | Page 13 | ||||
| THE INCIDENCE OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA DETECTED IN PRIMARY CARE AND THE VALUE OF DERMOSCOPY | |||||
| Scott Kitchener, Toowomba District Health Office, Queensland | Page 13 | ||||
| RSTM&H CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM SESSION III | |||||
| EMERGING & REEMERGING INFECTIONS – WHAT CHANCE CONTROL? | |||||
| Bernie J Hudson, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, PaLMS,Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards NSW | Page 14 | ||||
| TRAVEL MEDICINE: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 14 | ||||
| AFRICAN TICK BITE FEVER | |||||
| John Frean, National Institute for Communicable Diseases | Page 14 | ||||
| RURAL AND TROPICAL HEALTH | |||||
| RURAL CANCER RESEARCH AND OUTCOMES | |||||
| Sebesan S | Page 14 | ||||
| RURAL AND REMOTE ROAD SAFETY STUDY: WHAT’S GOING ON? | |||||
| O’Connor, TM, Rural Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 14 | ||||
| CRASH INJURIES IN RURAL AND REMOTE NORTH QUEENSLAND | |||||
| O’Connor, TM, Rural Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 14 | ||||
| SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE TROPICS | |||||
| Devine S*, Buettner PG, Mummery K, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia and School of Health and Human Movement, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. | Page 14 | ||||
| CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH | |||||
| THE IMPACT OF BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHOEDEMA ON TOWNSVILLE WOMEN | |||||
| Sperring, R.J.*, Gray, M.A., Gordon, S. School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland. | Page 14 | ||||
| THE ROLE OF THE GP IN COLORECTAL CANCER MANAGEMENT: A RURAL URBAN COMPARISON | |||||
| Hanks, H*, James Cook University, Queensland and University of New South Wales, NSW. | Page 14 | ||||
| BIOFEEDBACK THERAPY FOR BOWEL DYSFUNCTION FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR COLORECTAL CANCER | |||||
| Lynne Bartlett*, Kathryn Sloots†, Madeleine Nowak*, Yik-Hong Ho† *School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Science within the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4811, Australia and †School of Medicine and the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia. | Page 15 | ||||
| RECOVERY OF BOWEL FUNCTION IS RELATED TO AGE, AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC ANTERIOR RESECTION FOR COMPLICATED SIGMOID DIVERTICULITIS | |||||
| CT Lu, Y-H Ho, Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 16 | ||||
| SUPPLEMENTARY HOME BIOFEEDBACK THERAPY FOR FAECAL INCONTINENCE: A PILOT OF 4 PATIENTS | |||||
| Lynne Bartlett*, Kathryn Sloots†, Yik-Hong Ho† *School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Science within the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4811, Australia and †School of Medicine and the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia. | Page 16 | ||||
| TROPICAL MEDICINE AND ENVENOMATION | |||||
| INVITED PAPER: CHANGING DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA SINCE COLONIAL CONTACT AND INDEPENDENCE | |||||
| Cooke R. University of Queensland, Brisbane | Page 17 | ||||
| WITHOUT THE LEAST SUSPICION OF ITS BEING OF A POISONOUS QUALITY, WE HAD ORDERED IT FOR SUPPER...FISH POISONING IN AUSTRALIA 1995-2006 | |||||
| Kenneth.D.Winkel1, Benjamin Lui2, Martyn Kirk3, Kathleen Fullerton3, Craig Dalton4, Bill Nimorakiotakis1 1 Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne; 2 Epworth Hospital Emergency Department; 3 OzFoodNet, Department of Health & Ageing, Canberra; 4 Hunter New England Area Health Service, Newcastle | Page 17 | ||||
| DEVELOPING A TOXINOLOGY TOOLKIT FOR AN UNDER-DEVELOPED WORLD | |||||
| David J Williams (1,2*), Simon D Jensen (1,2), Ronelle E Welton (3), Teatulohi Matainaho (2), Wolfgang Wüster (1,4), Vera Ignjatovic (5), James Tibballs (1,6), Bill Nimorakiotakis (1) Kenneth D Winkel (1) (1) Australian Venom Research Unit, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic,3010. Australia (2) School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Boroko, PNG (3) Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Vic, 3010,Australia (4) School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom (5) School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, 3010, Australia (6) Intensive Care Unit, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Vic, 3010,Australia | Page 17 | ||||
| NOVEL APPROACH TO GENITAL CHLAMYDIA TESTING AND MANAGEMENT IN BUDGET TRAVELLERS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA | |||||
| Buhrer Skinner M (1,2) and Muller R (1) (1) Anton Breinl Centre, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland (2) Institute of Primary Health and Ambulatory Care, Queensland Health, Townsville, Queensland | Page 17 | ||||
| HISTORY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE IN QUEENSLAND | |||||
| Hansman D. 66 Alexandra Avenue, Rose Park, South Australia 5067 | Page 18 | ||||
| DINNER PRESENTATION | |||||
| RECENT ADVANCES IN COLONOSCOPY AND COLONOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF EARLY COLORECTAL CANCERS | |||||
| Konishi F*, Togashi K, Sagihara N, Kawmaura Y. Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical University | Page 18 | ||||
| PLENARY: THE 14TH ASHDOWN ORATION | |||||
| MORPHOLOGICAL AND GENETIC PATHWAYS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCER | |||||
| Fumio Konishi,* Hiroshi Noda, Kazutomo Togashi, Takafumi Maeda, Yutaka Kawamura, Department of Surgery, Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical University | Page 19 | ||||
| ADVANCES IN CANCER RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE | |||||
| OBESITY/NUTRITION AND CANCER | |||||
| Kennedy L – No abstract received. | Page 20 | ||||
| MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF COLORECTAL CANCER | |||||
| Alfred Lam, Professor of Pathology, Griffith University | Page 20 | ||||
| PET.CT SCANS AND CANCER DIAGNOSIS | |||||
| Ramsay SC, Townsville Nuclear Medicine, Mater Hospital Pimlico & Department of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 20 | ||||
| SKIN CANCER I | |||||
| WHAT IS APPROPRIATE SUN EXPOSURE? LAYING SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS FOR SOLVING A PUBLIC HEALTH DILEMMA | |||||
| Olds, W.J.*, Kimlin, M.G. Australian Sun and Health Research Laboratory, Insitute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove,Brisbane, Queensland | Page 20 | ||||
| SUNSCREEN USE AND VITAMIN D STATUS | |||||
| M.G. Kimlin(1), A. Brodie1, C.A. Lang1, S. Harrison (2), M. Nowak (2), and M.R. Moore (3) (1) Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology; (2) Skin Cancer Research Group, James Cook University, Townsville; (3) National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicity, University of Queensland. | Page 21 | ||||
| ASSOCIATION OF SKIN COLOUR AND VITAMIN D (25(OH)D) | |||||
| Lang C.A.*(1) , Kimlin M.G.(1) , Harrison S.(2), Nowak M.,(2) and Moore M.R.(3) (1)Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland; (2)Skin Cancer Research Group, James Cook University, Queensland; (3)National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicity, University of Queensland, Queensland | Page 21 | ||||
| SUN EXPOSURE AND RISK PERCEPTION OF OUTDOOR WORKERS | |||||
| Saris, K*. and Kimlin, M. G. Australian Sun and Health Research Laboratory, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. | Page 21 | ||||
| BASAL CELL CARCINOMA, INFECTION WITH HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS AND SMOKING | |||||
| Thomas Iftner (1), Angelika Iftner (1), Petra G Buettner*(2), Simone L Harrison(2), Margaret Glasby(2), Beverly A Raasch(3), and Claus Garbe(4) (1)Research Section Experimental Virology, Institute of Medical Virology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany; (2)Skin Cancer Research Group within the North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; (3)Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates; (4)Department of Dermatology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany. | Page 22 | ||||
| CANCER COUNCIL QUEENSLAND ORATION | |||||
| DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CUTANEOUS MELANOMA | |||||
| Professor Claus Garbe – No abstract received | Page 22 | ||||
| SKIN CANCER PLENARY | |||||
| CURRENT OPEN ISSUES IN MELANOMA: FROM SURGERY TO IMMUNOTHERAPY | |||||
| Professor Alessandro Testori – No abstract received. | Page 22 | ||||
| SKIN CANCER II | |||||
| SUN PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOUR TOWNSVILLE AND THURINGOWA COMMUNITY MARKETS | |||||
| Bartlett L*(1), Cross N (1), Cross N (1), Huth N (1), Jackson S (1), Jensen A (1), Jongkryg M (1), King J (1), Lee P (1), Nugent C (1), Passmore J (1), Phillips R (1), Webster K(1), Wedel C (1), Baker M (2), (1)School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Science within the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4811, Australia (2)M2Marketingmatters, PO Box 1861, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia | Page 22 | ||||
| KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTIONS ABOUT SUNBURN AND SOLAR KERATOSES IN AUSTRALIA | |||||
| Raasch BA*, Buettner PG , United Arab Emirates University Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, and School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, Skin Cancer Research Group, James Cook University, Australia | Page 22 | ||||
| MINOR SKIN EXCISIONS IN GENERAL PRACTICE IN NORTH QUEENSLAND | |||||
| Heal C*, Buettner P, Raasch B, Browning S., School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 23 | ||||
| GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION OF INCIDENCE OF CUTANEOUS MELANOMA IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA | |||||
| Petra Buettner* and Robert MacLennan, Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, within North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University, Townsville, and Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane | Page 23 | ||||
| MEETING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS | |||||
| AWARENESS OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN NORTH QUEENSLAND | |||||
| Hauquitz A*, Leggat P, Long S, Speare R., James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 23 | ||||
| WHY MEDICAL STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT | |||||
| Preston, R*; Veitch, PC; Grant, M; Veitch, J; Savage, R, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 23 | ||||
| 2ND COPEMAN ORATION | |||||
| TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED: MALARIA ACQUIRED OUTSIDE ENDEMIC AREAS | |||||
| Frean JA, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa | Page 24 | ||||
| CONFERENCE DINNER PRESENTATION | |||||
| MELANOMA STAGE IV VACCINATIONS: HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS AND SALMONELLA STUDIES | |||||
| Professor Alessandro Testori – No abstract received. | Page 24 | ||||
| Poster Presentations | |||||
| RURAL AND TROPICAL HEALTH | |||||
| LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: CONDUCTING PRACTICE BASED RESEARCH | |||||
| Heal, C, Veitch, P, Preston, R*, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Queensland | Page 25 | ||||
| LIFESTYLE TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMS OF GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE IN ADULTS – THE DIETITIAN’S PERSPECTIVE | |||||
| Madeleine Nowak, Petra Büttner, Simone Harrison, Cynthia McCutchan, Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research within the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 25 | ||||
| LIFESTYLE TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMS OF GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE – THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER’S PERSPECTIVE | |||||
| Madeleine Nowak (1), Petra Büttner (1), Beverly Raasch (2), Kym Daniell (2), Simone Harrison (1), Cynthia McCutchan (1) (1)School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, and (2)School of Medicine, North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research within the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 26 | ||||
| LIFESTYLE TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMS OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE – A CASE SERIES | |||||
| Madeleine Nowak (1), Petra Büttner (1), Simone Harrison (1), Kym Daniell (2), Beverly Raasch (2), Rick Speare (1) - (1) School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences. (2) School of Medicine, North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research within the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville. | Page 26 | ||||
| THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED: PATIENT’S VIEWS OF WHAT CAUSED THEIR ROAD CRASHES | |||||
| Blackman, R, Rural Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 26 | ||||
| PERHAPS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE THIRSTY IN THE TROPICS: ALCOHOL AND ROAD CRASHES - A PICTORIAL DISPLAY | |||||
| Blackman, R, Rural Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 27 | ||||
| RABIES POST-EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT OF TRAVELLERS PRESENTING TO TRAVEL HEALTH CLINICS IN AUCKLAND AND HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND | |||||
| Marc T.M. Shaw (1,2), Brigid O’Brien (1), Peter A Leggat* (2) - (1)Worldwise Travellers Health Centres of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand. (2)Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. | Page 27 | ||||
| SURVEY OF DEPLOYED DISASTER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TEAM MEMBERS IN AUSTRALIA SINCE THE ASIAN TSUNAMI: PRE-TRAVEL HEALTH PREPARATION | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat* and Peter Aitken, Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland | Page 27 | ||||
| CANCER | |||||
| BASELINE RESULTS OF A UNIQUE RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF MELANOCYTIC NAEVI (MOLES) IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CAN BE PREVENTED. | |||||
| Harrison SL*, Buettner PG, MacLennan R, Woosnam J, Hutton L. - Skin Cancer Research Group, NQCCR, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland. | Page 27 | ||||
| THE CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL ROLES OF P16 PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN A LARGE COHORT OF PATIENTS WITH COLORECTAL CANCER | |||||
| Lam AKY, Ong, K, Ho YH School of Medicine, Griffi th University, Queensland, and the School of Medicine, James Cook University, Queensland | Page 28 | ||||
| STATEWIDE SURVEY OF SUN PROTECTION KNOWLEDGE, POLICY AND PRACTICES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES IN QUEENSLAND | |||||
| Harrison SL*, Saunders V, Nowak M. - Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, within North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research (NQCCR), James Cook University, Queensland. Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, within North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research (NQCCR), James Cook University, Queensland. Skin Cancer Research Group, NQCCR, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland. | Page 28 | ||||
| RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CANCERS AND LATITUDE IN AUSTRALIA | |||||
| Madeleine Nowak, Petra Büttner, Simone Harrison - Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sciences, within the North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research, James Cook University. | Page 28 | ||||
| Volume: 7 Number: 2 | |||||
| INVITED EDITORIAL | |||||
| The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine: The first 15 years | |||||
| Associate Professor Peter A Leggat | Page 17 | ||||
| INVITED SERIES | |||||
| Destinations and health 1: Singapore | |||||
| Dr Yann Meunier | Page 19 | ||||
| Traditional medical treatments VII: What modern medicine can learn from traditional medicine | |||||
| Dr Graham Pinn | Page 23 | ||||
| SUBMITTED PAPER | |||||
| Imported trichostrongylid infection in Tasmania | |||||
| Richard Bradbury | Page 25 | ||||
| SUBMITTED REVIEW | |||||
| Diagnosing haemochromatosis in tropical Australia | |||||
| Dr Chris Whittington | Page 29 | ||||
| CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: Life Science in the Tropics | |||||
| Oral Presentation | |||||
| Thirteenth Ashdown Oration | |||||
| Adventure in tropical disease investigation. | |||||
| Rick Speare - School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 32 | ||||
| Inaugural Copeman Oration | |||||
| On the nature of research | |||||
| Roderick Campbell - School of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 32 | ||||
| Review of thirteen cases of Brachylaima cribbi intestinal fluke worm infection in children and adults from South Australia | |||||
| Andrew Butcher Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Woodville Road, Woodville, South Australia | Page 32 | ||||
| Paper | |||||
| Review of thirteen cases of Brachylaima cribbi intestinal fluke worm infection in children and adults from South Australia | |||||
| Andrew Butcher Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Woodville Road, Woodville, South Australia | Page 32 | ||||
| Papers | |||||
| Review of thirteen cases of Brachylaima cribbi intestinal fluke worm infection in children and adults from South Australia | |||||
| Andrew Butcher Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Woodville Road, Woodville, South Australia | Page 32 | ||||
| Rickettsial diseases | |||||
| Stephen Graves - Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory & Hunter Area Pathology Service | Page 33 | ||||
| Melioidosis | |||||
| Natkunam Ketheesan - School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 33 | ||||
| Mycobacterium | |||||
| Robert Norton - Queensland Health Pathology Services, Townsville | Page 33 | ||||
| Snakes, venoms and medicine | |||||
| Tony Woods - School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide | Page 33 | ||||
| Colorectal cancer | |||||
| Alfred Lam - Griffith Medical School and Queensland Health Pathology, Brisbane | Page 33 | ||||
| Establishment and coordination of a telepathology service at Fiji Islands and applications to North Queensland | |||||
| Venkatesh Murthy Shashidhar - School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 34 | ||||
| Different histological subtypes of basal cell carcinoma, different clinical behaviour, and possibly different aetiology | |||||
| Bev A. Raasch (1), Petra G. Buettner (2), Claus Garbe (3) - (1)School of Medicine, (2)School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine James Cook University, (3)Department of Dermatology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany | Page 34 | ||||
| Characterisation of the CMI response in both seropositive individuals and patients with melioidosis using intracellular cytokine staining through FACS analysis and measuring the proliferation of lymphocytes in response to stimulation with B. pseudomallei antigens | |||||
| Lazzaroni S (1,2), Barnes J (1), Govan B (1), Norton R (3), Ketheesan N (1,2) - (1)School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, James Cook University, Townvsille. (2)School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville (3) Queensland Health Pathology Services, The Townsville Hospital | Page 34 | ||||
| Biogeographical determinants influencing the distribution of B. pseudomallei and the causal relationships between host, environment, disease incidence and manifestation | |||||
| Rolf Nilsson - School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 34 | ||||
| The role of selected fungi isolated from sago starch in pathogenesis of sago haemolytic disease | |||||
| Latifeh Atagazli - School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 34 | ||||
| Acquired-B phenomenon - A case report | |||||
| Kristy Marshall - School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 34 | ||||
| Fever screening at Cairns airport | |||||
| John McBride - School of Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns | Page 34 | ||||
| A case of eosinophilia and iron deficiency | |||||
| Richard Bradbury - Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania | Page 35 | ||||
| Methods for the detection of C. burnetii DNA in various sample types | |||||
| Michelle Lockhart - Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory | Page 35 | ||||
| Antiretroviral drugs for the western Pacific | |||||
| John McBride - School of Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns | Page 35 | ||||
| Polymerase chain reaction method as an acute phase detection tool as well as an epidemiological marker in the diagnosis of Leptospirosis | |||||
| Nicholas Nuttall - Queensland Health Pathology Scientific Services | Page 35 | ||||
| Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia: A case study | |||||
| Christine Knauth - Queensland Health pathology Services | Page 35 | ||||
| Queensland snake venom detection requests | |||||
| David Porter - Queensland Health Pathology Services Townsville | Page 35 | ||||
| Estimation of brown snake antivenom doses | |||||
| Geoffrey Isbister - Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin | Page 35 | ||||
| Marine stingers: An emerging world health issue | |||||
| Lisa-ann Gershwin - Surf Life Saving and James Cook University, Townsville | Page 36 | ||||
| Poster Presentations | |||||
| Upper Body Musculoskeletal Disorders among Occupational Therapy Students | |||||
| Derek R. Smith (1,2) Peter A. Leggat (1) and Michele Clark (1) - (1)Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Kawasaki. (2) School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 36 | ||||
| Hostellers’ knowledge of transmission and prevention of avian influenza when travelling abroad | |||||
| Peter A. Leggat (1), Deborah Mills (2) and Richard Speare (1) - (1) School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville. (2) Travel Doctor, Brisbane. | Page 36 | ||||
| INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS | |||||
| INDEX OF VOLUME | |||||
| Volume: 6 Number: 2 | |||||
| INVITED EDITORIAL | |||||
| Disaster response and preparedness | |||||
| Associate Professor Peter A Leggat, Dr Jonathan V Hodge and Dr Peter Aitken | Page 17 | ||||
| INVITED REVIEWS | |||||
| Snakebite epidemiology in Papua New Guinea | |||||
| David Williams and Dr Ken Winkel | Page 19 | ||||
| INVITED SERIES | |||||
| Traditional medical treatments IV: Stinging nettle | |||||
| Dr Graham Pinn | Page 24 | ||||
| CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS | |||||
| Abstracts from Capricornia meeting | |||||
| Oral presentations | |||||
| Exotic snakes and snakebite in Australia: How prepared are we? | |||||
| Mahdi A (1,2), Nimorakiotakis W (1), Winkel K (1) - (1)Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, VIC Australia (2)Department of Emergency Medicine, Austin and Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC Australia. | Page 26 | ||||
| Trends in antimalarial prescriptions in Australia 1998-2002 | |||||
| Peter A Leggat, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 27 | ||||
| A randomised double blind comparative trial of atovaquone/proguanil combination and doxycycline in the chemoprophylaxis of malaria in Australian Defence Force personnel | |||||
| Peter Nasveld, Scott Kitchener, Michael Edstein and Bruce Russell Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane | Page 27 | ||||
| Poster Presentations | |||||
| A Case of Bancroftian Filariasis in a Traveller to Thailand | |||||
| Marc TM Shaw (1,2) and Peter A Leggat (1) - (1)Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University; (2) Worldwise Travellers Health Centres of New Zealand, Auckland | Page 27 | ||||
| Travel Medicine: An Australian Perspective | |||||
| Peter A Leggat, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 28 | ||||
| Bee Sting Mortality in Australia 1979-1998 McGain F, Winkel K | |||||
| Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU), Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, 3010 Vic. | Page 28 | ||||
| Needlestick and Sharps Injuries among Australian Medical Students | |||||
| Derek R Smith (1,2) and Peter A Leggat (1) - (1) Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University; (2) Department of Hazard Assessment, National Institute of Industrial Health, Japan | Page 28 | ||||
| ACTM Regional Scientific Meeting "From Hobart to Harare - Tropical Medicine in Times of Conflict and Disasters" and 2nd Workshop on Parasite Identification | |||||
| Convocation address | |||||
| The NICD – an invitation to the ACTM | |||||
| Frean, JA - National Institute for Communicable Diseases and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. | Page 29 | ||||
| Plenary Session: Another time, another place, another war. | |||||
| UDI, the war and the role of the Rhodesian Army Medical Corps | |||||
| Goldsmid, JM - Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia | Page 30 | ||||
| The Role of the Forensic Pathologist in the Rhodesian War | |||||
| Lee KA - Department of Forensic Medicine. Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle | Page 30 | ||||
| Terror in the Tropics – A Clinician’s Retro perspective | |||||
| Schreuder, GD - Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania, General Practitioner, Amiens Clinic, Hobart | Page 30 | ||||
| Rural medicine – adapting to circumstances | |||||
| Dr Paul H Canter - Group Medical Consultant, Illovo Sugar Ltd. | Page 30 | ||||
| Experiences of a Land Mine Victim | |||||
| Rickards Rob - Qantas Training Captain B737 (Ex Rhodesian Army ex Air Zimbabwe) | Page 30 | ||||
| DEET is good for helicopters too: medical experiences in the SADF | |||||
| Frean, JA - National Institute for Communicable Diseases and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. | Page 31 | ||||
| A physiotherapist’s experiences in dealing with victims of political violence in South Africa | |||||
| Garland, M - Eastern Shore Physiotherapy, Howrah, Tasmania | Page 31 | ||||
| Margaretha Isaäcson, the SAIMR, and the SADF | |||||
| National Institute for Communicable Diseases and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. | Page 31 | ||||
| Development of a Postgraduate Course in Disaster Health | |||||
| Peter Aitken (1,2), Peter Leggat (2)* and Jon Hodge (2,3) - (1)Emergency Department, The Townsville Hospital; (2)Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University; (3)Defence Health Services, North Queensland | Page 31 | ||||
| Symposium 1: Travel Medicine/Tropical Medicine: Chair: Dr C Webster | |||||
| Ant Sting Allergy within Australia – a threat to residents and travellers | |||||
| Michael Wiese - Specialist Pharmacist, Royal Hobart Hospital | Page 32 | ||||
| Trends in malaria and antimalarial use in Australia 1998-2002 | |||||
| Peter A Leggat - Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 32 | ||||
| Protection against the severe sequelae of a malarial infection by platelets | |||||
| Foote SJ (1,2), Marshall V (1) - (1)The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. 3000, Australia (2)The Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Australia | Page 32 | ||||
| Potential of Malaria Epidemics on the Andaman Islands Post Tsunami | |||||
| Shanks, GD - Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera Qld 4052 Australia | Page 33 | ||||
| Is There A Doctor On Board? Medical emergencies on commercial aircraft | |||||
| Webster, CH - EMIRATES Medical Services, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. | Page 33 | ||||
| Symposium 2: Tropical Medicine/VeterinaryTropical Medicine: Chair: Dr Sue Rogers | |||||
| Dientamoeba fragilis – clinical significance and diagnosis | |||||
| Stark DJ - St.Vincent’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Sydney, Australia | Page 33 | ||||
| A Case of Gastrointestinal Myiasis in Tasmania? | |||||
| Bradbury, R - Microbiology Department, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia and School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia | Page 33 | ||||
| A case of Chagas’ Disease in Tasmania? | |||||
| Dr Erika Cox, Launceston General Hospital, Launceston, Tasmania Prof. John Goldsmid, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania | Page 33 | ||||
| Anthrax – the zoonosis in southern Africa | |||||
| Frean, JA - National Institute for Communicable Diseases and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. | Page 34 | ||||
| Zoonotic challenges in Tasmania | |||||
| Goldsmid, JM, and Bettiol, SS - Discpline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7000 | Page 34 | ||||
| The Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease (D.F.T.D.) – A problem unresolved | |||||
| Harington J S (1) and McGlashan N D (2) - (1)School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; (2)School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia | Page 34 | ||||
| Poster Sessions | |||||
| Illness and injury to travellers on a premium expedition to Iceland | |||||
| Marc TM Shaw (1,2) and Peter A Leggat (2) - (1)Worldwise Travellers Health Centres of New Zealand, Auckland; (2)Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 34 | ||||
| Travel medicine: An Australian Perspective | |||||
| PA Leggat, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia | Page 35 | ||||
| An Analysis of Adverse Antivenom Reactions Reported to the Therapeutics Goods Administration’s Adverse Drug Reactions Unit (1974-2004) | |||||
| JD Canary (1), B Nimorakiotakis (1), KD Winkel (1) and I Boyd (2) - (1)Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Australia; (2) Adverse Drug Reactions Unit, Therapeutic Goods Administration Canberra, ACT, Australia | Page 35 | ||||
| Parasite Identification Workshop | |||||
| Parasite Identification Workshop: This is a full one-day event covering parasite identifi cation. It is divided into 3 sections: Intestinal parasites; Blood parasites and Tissue parasites. | |||||
| Workshop Convenors: Emeritus Professor John Goldsmid, Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Hobart; Associate Professor John Frean, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa | Page 35 | ||||
| SHORT COMMUNICATION | |||||
| Travel Insurance: Lessons from recent disasters | |||||
| Associate Professor Peter A Leggat, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia | Page 36 | ||||
| Instructions for Authors | |||||
| CONTENTS | |||||
| Volume: 5 Number: 1 | |||||
| INTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS | |||||
| INVITED EDITORIAL | |||||
| Animal health and emerging human diseases | |||||
| Emeritus Professor Rod Campbell AM, PhD, DSc, DVMS, MRCVS, FRCPath, FACTM, FACVSc, FRSE - Australian Institute of Tropical Veterinary Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland Australia | Page 2 | ||||
| REVIEW ARTICLE | |||||
| Traditional medical treatments - Kava (Piper methysticum) | |||||
| Dr Graham Pinn, MBBS (Lon), FRACP, FRCP, MRNZCGP, MACTM, DCH - Medical Director, Dubai London Clinic, Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Page 5 | ||||
| RESEARCH PAPERS | |||||
| Unusual anoplocephalid tapeworm infections in South Africa | |||||
| Dr John Frean, Leigh Dini - National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg | Page 8 | ||||
| Micro-organisms isolated from faecal specimens in Tasmania | |||||
| Dr Graeme Schreuder (1), Emeritus Professor John Goldsmid (2), - (1) Director of Medical Services Calvary Health Care, Tasmania, and Honorary Senior Lecturer Division of Clinical Sciences University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania Australia; (2)Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania Hobart Tasmania Australia | Page 11 | ||||
| Volume: 4 Number: 2 | |||||
| INVITED EDITORIAL | |||||
| A/Prof. Peter Leggat | Page 15 | ||||
| LETTER TO THE EDITOR | |||||
| A/Prof. Peter Leggat | Page 17 | ||||
| CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS 2003 ACTM Annual Conference, Melbourne Travel and Tropical Medicine in a Time of Change | |||||
| ORAL PRESENTATIONS | |||||
| Session: TERRORISM AND TRAVELChair: Dr Mathew Klein | |||||
| Operation RED ORCHID - The NSW Emergency Response to the Bali Bombings | |||||
| Michael Flynn, Medical Director, Ambulance Service of NSW, NSW State HSFAC and State Medical Controller | Page 18 | ||||
| The Lessons Learnt | |||||
| John Putland (Formerly Qantas Airways, Sydney) | Page 19 | ||||
| Identification of Mass Fatality Victims – The Bali Bomb Experience | |||||
| Middleton AG Kenyon International Emergency Services, Sydney, NSW | Page 19 | ||||
| MALARIA AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASES - Chair: Associate Professor Robert Hirst | |||||
| Major Josephine Mackerras (1896-1968) | |||||
| John Pearn , Department of Paediatrics, Royal Childrens Hospital Brisbane | Page 18 | ||||
| Progress towards a recombinant protein malaria vaccine | |||||
| Robin F. Anders*, Christopher Adda, Rosella Masciatonio, Kleopatra Vingis, Solie Abdulnour and Vince J. Murphy. - The Department of Biochemistry and The Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology, La Trobe University. | Page 19 | ||||
| A Double Blind Randomised Comparative Study of Tafenoquine versus Mefloquine for the Long-Term Chemoprophylaxis of Malaria in Australian Defence Force Personnel deployed on Peace-Keeping Duties in East Timor | |||||
| Peter Nasveld*, Leonard Brennan, Michael Edstein, Scott Kitchener, Karl Rieckmann - Australian Defence Force, Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane | Page 19 | ||||
| New Antimalarial drugs | |||||
| Karl H. Rieckmann - Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane | Page 19 | ||||
| Rickettsial Diseases: Emerging arthropod-transmitted infections in Australia | |||||
| Stephen Graves* and J Stenos | Page 20 | ||||
| NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND INJURIES - Chair: Associate Professor Peter Leggat | |||||
| Difficulties in providing expatriate health care | |||||
| Mathew Klein, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra | Page 20 | ||||
| Repatriation of Burns Patients from Papua New Guinea | |||||
| Scott Wilkinson, Area Medical Director, International SOS, Sydney | Page 20 | ||||
| Clinical evaluation of snakebite in Viet Nam | |||||
| Le Khac Quyen, Le Van Dong,Trinh Xuan Kiem*, P.Gopalakrisnakone - Venom & Toxin Research Program, National University of Singapore. Venom Research Unit, University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam | Page 20 | ||||
| Marine Envenomations - A Survey Of Antivenom Usage In The Indo-Pacific Region | |||||
| Bill Nimorakiotakis *(1), GM Hawdon (1), P Hobbs (2), KD Winkel (1) - (1)Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne; (2)CSL Limited | Page 20 | ||||
| Traveller’s Thrombosis | |||||
| John Putland, Formerly of Qantas Airways | Page 21 | ||||
| Session: Travel Medicine-Adventure Tourism - Chair Dr Ken Winkel | |||||
| Expedition medicine in the era of commercial adventure | |||||
| David Tingay, Royal Children’s’ Hospital, Parkville, Victoria | Page 21 | ||||
| Hazards of the Tropical Diving Holiday | |||||
| Ian Miller, Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne | Page 21 | ||||
| Deaths and severe envenomation from Marine Stings worldwide | |||||
| Peter Fenner, Industrial & Occupational Medicine, Mackay | Page 21 | ||||
| Earthwatch volunteers-risk management for international fieldwork volunteers | |||||
| Jane Gilmour, Executive Director, The Earthwatch Institute, South Melbourne VIC | Page 21 | ||||
| Who is a polar tourist? | |||||
| David Tingay, Royal Children’s’ Hospital, Parkville, Victoria | Page 21 | ||||
| Convocation XIV - Chair of Convocation: Associate Professor Robert Hirst | |||||
| 10th Ashdown Oration: HIV infection and tropical diseases | |||||
| Professor Ahmed Latif, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe | Page 22 | ||||
| 14th Convocation Address: The “Irukandji” Syndrome- research into a lethal jellyfish | |||||
| Associate Professor Peter Fenner, Industrial & Occupational Medicine, Mackay | Page 22 | ||||
| Session: SARS - Chair: Professor Richard Smallwood | |||||
| SARS: A Virologists View | |||||
| Peter Daniels*, Linfa Wang, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory | Page 22 | ||||
| SARS: An Aviation Medicine View | |||||
| John Putland, Formerly of Qantas Airways, Sydney | Page 22 | ||||
| Session: Bugs, Toxins and Travel - Chair: Professor John Pearn, AM, RFD | |||||
| Second Anton Breinl Memorial Lecture: Infections from home and away | |||||
| Emeritus Professor John Goldsmid, Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Hobart | Page 22 | ||||
| The non-specific effects of vaccines and childhood mortality in developing countries | |||||
| Frank Shann, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne | Page 23 | ||||
| Astounding success in dengue control in Vietnam | |||||
| Brian Kay, Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, PO Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane | Page 23 | ||||
| The Australian Biosecurity CRC (AB-CRC) | |||||
| Peter Daniels and Bryan Eaton, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory, | Page 23 | ||||
| Session: Clinical Tropical Medicine - Chair: Associate Professor Stephen Graves | |||||
| Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Infection in Southern Africa | |||||
| Ahmed Latif, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe | Page 23 | ||||
| The investigation of the ‘mysterious disease’ and deaths in the Strickland Gorge areas of the West Sepik and Southern Highlands Provinces of Papua News Guinea. | |||||
| Tukutau Taufa, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 24 | ||||
| Snake Bite Mortality In Port Moresby General Hospital, Papua New Guinea (1992-2001) | |||||
| Forbes McGain (1), Aron Limbo (2), David Williams (3), Gertrude Didei (2), *Kenneth D Winkel (1) - (1)Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria Australia; (2)Port Moresby General Hospital, Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea; (3)James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia. | Page 24 | ||||
| Fit To Travel - Non-Communicable Illness In The Traveller | |||||
| Jonathon Cohen , Travel Clinics Australia, Melbourne | Page 24 | ||||
| The role of the tropical medicine doctor in health, safety and the environment (HSE) for oil, gas and mineral exploration. | |||||
| Khin Maung Htwe, Invanhoe Myanmar Holdings Ltd. (Exploration) | Page 24 | ||||
| Session: Travel Medicine - Chair: Professor John Pearn, AM, RFD | |||||
| Travel medicine: Profiling an emerging specialty | |||||
| Peter Leggat, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville | Page 24 | ||||
| Vaccine Update | |||||
| Sonny Lau The Travel Doctor - TMVC Melbourne | Page 25 | ||||
| Faecal specimens – what does the lab report mean? | |||||
| Dr. Graeme Schreuder *(1), Prof. John Goldsmid (2) - (1)Calvary Health Care*, Tasmania; (2) Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Hobart | Page 25 | ||||
| Session: Teaching and Academic Policy in Tropical Medicine - Chair: Professor John Goldsmid | |||||
| Teaching Tropical Medicine – The View From Africa | |||||
| Ahmed Latif , University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe | Page 25 | ||||
| Health Issues – International Electives for Medical Students | |||||
| Prof John Pearn, Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane | Page 25 | ||||
| A teaching role for the ACTM? | |||||
| John Goldsmid, Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania, Hobart | Page 25 | ||||
| POSTER PRESENTATIONS | |||||
| Dermatitis reported in medical examinations of US commercial airline pilots | |||||
| Peter Leggat (1), Connie Peterman (2) and Steve JH Véronneau (2) - (1)School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; (2) Aerospace Medical Research Division, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, Oklahoma City, USA | Page 25 | ||||
| Idiopathic necrotising dermatitis – an enigmatic international disease | |||||
| Lui DC, Pearn JH, Petersen D, Kimble RM and Raven RJ - The University of Queensland | Page 25 | ||||
| The production of Calloselasma rhodostoma antivenom (CR-AV) from the egg yolks of hens immunized with venom and it’s application for the treatment of snakebite in Viet Nam | |||||
| Xuan Trinh - Affiliation not provided | Page 26 | ||||
| Clinical features of severe envenoming by the Malayan krait (Bungarus candidus) in South Viet Nam. | |||||
| Kac Quyen, Trinh Xuan Kiem, P.Gopalakrisnakone. - Snake Research Unit, University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam; Venom and Toxin Research Programme, National University of Singapore | Page 26 | ||||
| The In Vivo Analysis of ‘Irukandji’ (Carukia Barnesi) and ‘Jimble’ Jellyfish (Carybdea Rastonii) Venom | |||||
| Kenneth D. Winkel (1), James Tibballs (1,2), Gabrielle M. Hawdon (1), Gavin Lambert (3), Mark Ross-Smith (1), C. Wiltshire1, Lisa-Ann Gershwin (4), Peter J. Fenner (5), James A. Angus (1) - (1)Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, (2)Intensive Care Unit, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, (3)The Baker Heart Research Institute, Prahan, Victoria, (4)Department of Integrative Biology, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California USA, (5)Surf Life Saving Australia, PO Box 3080, North Mackay, Queensland. | Page 26 | ||||
| Emergency assistance provided abroad to insured travellers from Australia following the Bali bombing | |||||
| PA Leggat (1) and FW Leggat (2) School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, (1)Townsville and (2) Brisbane, Australia | Page 27 | ||||
| GIS and health risk assessment | |||||
| Tim Inglis, PathCentre, WA. | Page 27 | ||||
| REVIEW ARTICLE | |||||
| Antimalarial drugs prescribed in Australia | |||||
| A/Prof. Leggatt | Page 28 | ||||
| Volume: 4 Number: 1 | |||||
| INTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS | |||||
| EDITORIAL COMMENT | |||||
| Prof John M. Goldsmid, Editor, Annals of the ACTM. | Page 2 | ||||
| ARTICLE | |||||
| Limitations To Global Disease Control | |||||
| Professor John Pearn, AM RFD, MD, FRACP, FACTM Deputy Head (Student Affairs), School of Medicine, University of Queensland, c/- Office of the Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland Australia | Page 3 | ||||
| Papuan Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) Envenomation in Rural Papua New Guinea | |||||
| David Williams BSc, and Ben Bal DAppHlthSc | Page 6 | ||||
| Clinical Contracts and Chronic Envenomation Syndromes | |||||
| Professor John Pearn, AM RFD, MD, FRACP, FACTM Deputy Head (Student Affairs), School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia | Page 10 | ||||
| Diagnostic Testing For SARS Coronavirus Infection | |||||
| David W Smith, Chair, Public Health Laboratory Network, PHLM Secretariat, Department of Health & Ageing, Canberra, ACT, Australia | Page 12 | ||||
| Volume: 3 Number: 1 | |||||
| INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS | |||||
| EDITORIAL COMMENT | |||||
| Assoc. Prof. P.A. Leggat, President, ACTM. and Prof J.M. Goldsmid, Editor, Annals of the ACTM. | Page 3 | ||||
| INVITED REVIEW | |||||
| HIV infection and sexually transmitted infections in Southern Africa | |||||
| Ahmed S. Latif MBChB, DipVen, FCP, MD, FACTM Professor of Medicine and Dean, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, | Page 4 | ||||
| Real-time molecular epidemiology | |||||
| Timothy J J Inglis, BM, DM, FRCPath, DTM&H, FRCPA, Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, PathCentre, Nedlands, WA, AUSTRALIA. | Page 14 | ||||
| CASE REPORT | |||||
| A probable case of subcutaneous dirofilariasis aquired in Zimbabwe | |||||
| J.M.Goldsmid PhD, FRCPath, FASM, FACTM, FIBiol, FAIBiol., Hon. FRCPA And S.S. Bettiol PhD, MACTM, MASM Discipline of Pathology, University of Tasmania | Page 16 | ||||
| ARTICLE | |||||
| Response to the Anthrax bioterrorism threat in South Africa | |||||
| John Frean MB, ChB, Med (Path), DTMH, FACTM and Lorraine Arntzen Dip Med Tech, MSc: Special Bacterial Pathogens Laboratory, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa | Page 17 | ||||
© ACTM - Kym Daniell November 23, 2007
