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Journal articles
2019, 'The barriers to linkage and retention in care for women living with HIV in an high income setting where they comprise a minority group', AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 31, pp. 730 - 736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2019.1576843
,2019, 'Severe Eosinophilic Meningoencephalitis Secondary to Suspected Neuroangiostrongyliasis with a Good Clinical Outcome', Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2019, pp. 4037196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4037196
,2019, 'Opportunistic assessment and treatment of people with hepatitis C virus infection admitted to hospital for other reasons: A prospective cohort study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 65, pp. 50 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.11.003
,2019, 'A national study of the clinical management of HIV-positive women in Australia: What are the successes and where are the gaps?', Sexual Health, 16, pp. 282 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH18070
,2019, 'Ocular toxoplasmosis in a tertiary referral center in Sydney Australia-clinical features, treatment, and prognosis', Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, 8, pp. 280 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/APO.0000000000000244
,2019, 'Production of IgG2 antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides after vaccination of treated HIV patients may be augmented by IL-7Rα signaling in ICOS+ circulating T follicular-helper cells', Frontiers in Immunology, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00839
,2019, 'SAT-235-Low HCV reinfection incidence following DAA treatment scale-up in people living with HIV in Australia', Journal of Hepatology, 70, pp. e734 - e734, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0618-8278(19)31468-9
,2018, 'A case of syphilitic aortitis', Internal Medicine Journal, 48, pp. 1549 - 1550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.14127
,2018, 'Cluster of invasive Mycobacteria chimaera infections following cardiac surgery demonstrating novel clinical features and risks of aortic valve replacement', Internal Medicine Journal, 48, pp. 1514 - 1520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.14093
,2018, 'Identifying missed clinical opportunities for the earlier diagnosis of HIV in Australia, a retrospective cohort data linkage study', PLoS ONE, 13, pp. e0208323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208323
,2018, 'Medical authority, managerial power and political will: A Bourdieusian analysis of antibiotics in the hospital', Health (United Kingdom), 22, pp. 500 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459317715775
,2018, 'Improvisation versus guideline concordance in surgical antibiotic prophylaxis: a qualitative study', Infection, 46, pp. 541 - 548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-018-1156-y
,2018, 'Non-AIDS complexity amongst patients living with HIV in Sydney: Risk factors and health outcomes', AIDS Research and Therapy, 15, pp. 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12981-018-0193-z
,2018, 'Beliefs in Antiretroviral Treatment and Self-Efficacy in HIV Management are Associated with Distinctive HIV Treatment Trajectories', AIDS and Behavior, 22, pp. 887 - 895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-016-1649-6
,2018, 'Capacity of non-invasive hepatic fibrosis algorithms to replace transient elastography to exclude cirrhosis in people with hepatitis C virus infection: A multi-centre observational study', PLoS ONE, 13, pp. e0192763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192763
,2018, 'Comparison of interferon-? release assays and the tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of tuberculosis in human immunodeficiency virus: A systematic review', Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 81, pp. 59 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2017.0072
,2017, 'Update on hepatitis C and implications for pregnancy', Obstetric Medicine, 10, pp. 157 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1753495X17708093
,2017, 'Sex differences in the significance of isolated reactive treponemal chemiluminescence immunoassay results.', Sex Transm Infect, 94, pp. 187 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2017-053284
,2017, 'Association between altered QT interval in sepsis and mortality: a possible effect of antimicrobial therapy?', Internal Medicine Journal, 47, pp. 1216 - 1217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.13541
,2017, 'Clinical and social barriers to antimicrobial stewardship in pulmonary medicine: A qualitative study', American Journal of Infection Control, 45, pp. 911 - 916, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.03.003
,2017, 'Determining the factors associated with blood-borne virus testing of substance misusers presenting to hospital', Internal Medicine Journal, 47, pp. 907 - 914, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.13497
,2017, 'How do hospital respiratory clinicians perceive antimicrobial stewardship (AMS)? A qualitative study highlighting barriers to AMS in respiratory medicine', Journal of Hospital Infection, 96, pp. 316 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2017.05.001
,2017, 'Myth, manners, and medical ritual: Defensive medicine and the fetishisation of antibiotics', Qualitative Health Research, 27, pp. 1994 - 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732317721478
,2017, 'Individual care versus broader public health: A qualitative study of hospital doctors' antibiotic decisions', Infection, Disease & Health, 22, pp. 97 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2017.05.003
,2017, 'Impact of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation on the HIV Reservoir and Immune Response in 3 HIV-Infected Individuals', Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 75, pp. 328 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000001381
,2017, 'Production of IgG antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides is associated with expansion of ICOS+ circulating memory T follicular-helper cells which is impaired by HIV infection', PLoS ONE, 12, pp. e0176641, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176641
,2017, 'How do professional relationships influence surgical antibiotic prophylaxis decision making? A qualitative study', American Journal of Infection Control, 46, pp. 311 - 315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.09.004
,2016, 'Meningitis in a young woman', Medicine Today, 17, pp. 57 - 60
,2016, 'Optimizing antibiotic usage in hospitals: a qualitative study of the perspectives of hospital managers', Journal of Hospital Infection, 94, pp. 230 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2016.08.021
,2016, 'Barriers to uptake of antimicrobial advice in a UK hospital: a qualitative study', Journal of Hospital Infection, 93, pp. 418 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2016.03.011
,2016, 'Intraventricular neurocysticercosis: Presentation, diagnosis and management', Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 9, pp. 815 - 818, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apjtm.2016.06.016
,2016, 'Associations between vitamin D metabolites, antiretroviral therapy and bone mineral density in people with HIV', Osteoporosis International, 27, pp. 1737 - 1745, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00198-015-3432-3
,2016, 'Validated risk score for predicting 6-month mortality in infective endocarditis', Journal of the American Heart Association, 5, pp. e003016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.003016
,2016, 'Production of false-positive immunoglobulin M antibodies to Hepatitis A virus in autoimmune events', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 213, pp. 324 - 325, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv417
,2016, 'Chronic HIV-1 infection induces B-cell dysfunction that is incompletely resolved by long-term antiretroviral therapy', Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 71, pp. 381 - 389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000000869
,2016, 'FRI0365 Limited Evidence of Active Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) Infection in A Cohort of Acute Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) Patients', Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 75, pp. 567.1 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2016-eular.1318
,2016, 'Successful Treatment of Multiple Multidrug Resistant Intracranial Tuberculomata', Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2016, pp. 1841529, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1841529
,2015, ''Not Until I'm Absolutely Half-Dead and Have To:' Accounting for Non-Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Semi-Structured Interviews with People Living with HIV in Australia', AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 29, pp. 267 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/apc.2014.0301
,2015, 'A signal-to-cutoff ratio in the abbott architect HIV Ag/Ab combo assay that predicts subsequent confirmation of HIV-1 infection in a low-prevalence setting', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53, pp. 1709 - 1711, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03583-14
,2015, 'Candida infective endocarditis: An observational cohort study with a focus on therapy', Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59, pp. 2365 - 2373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.04867-14
,2015, 'Evolving views and practices of antiretroviral treatment prescribers in Australia', Medical Journal of Australia, 202, pp. 258 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.00443
,2015, 'HIV testing rates and co-infection among patients with tuberculosis in south-eastern Sydney, 2008–2013', Medical Journal of Australia, 202, pp. 255 - 257, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.01490
,2015, 'Impact of early valve surgery on outcome of staphylococcus aureus prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: Analysis in the international collaboration of endocarditis-prospective cohort study', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 60, pp. 741 - 749, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu871
,2015, 'One-year outcome following biological or mechanical valve replacement for infective endocarditis', International Journal of Cardiology, 178, pp. 117 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.10.125
,2015, 'Association between surgical indications, operative risk, and clinical outcome in infective endocarditis a prospective study from the international collaboration on endocarditis', Circulation, 131, pp. 131 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.012461
,2015, 'Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in two HIV-1 infected patients shows no detectable HIV-1 RNA or DNA, and a profound reduction in HIV-1 antibodies', Pathology, 47, pp. S55 - S55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.pat.0000461459.26902.eb
,2015, 'Understanding concerns about HIV treatment-as-prevention among people with HIV who are not using antiretroviral therapy', AIDS and Behavior, 19, pp. 821 - 831, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-014-0959-9
,2014, 'Severity and frequency of community-onset Clostridium difficile infection on an Australian tertiary referral hospital campus', International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 29, pp. 152 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2014.08.009
,2014, 'Hip structural parameters over 96 weeks in HIV-infected adults switching treatment to tenofovir-emtricitabine or abacavir-lamivudine', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e94858, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094858
,2014, 'HLA Alleles association with changes in bone mineral density in HIV-1-infected adults changing treatment to tenofovir-emtricitabine or abacavir-lamivudine', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e93333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093333
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