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Journal articles
2018, 'Comparing Australian gay and bisexual men with undiagnosed and recently diagnosed HIV infection to those in the National HIV Registry', Sexual Health, 15, pp. 276 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH17064
,2018, 'People Born in Non-Main English Speaking Countries Are Less Likely to Start HIV Treatment Early in Australia: A National Cohort Analysis, 2014-15', Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 77, pp. E31 - E34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000001585
,2018, 'Reply to Kenyon', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 66, pp. 812 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix905
,2018, 'Rising Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea Incidence and Associated Risk Factors among Female Sex Workers in Australia: A Retrospective Cohort Study', Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 45, pp. 199 - 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000714
,2018, 'Erratum: Correction: expanded HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation in communities in new South Wales, Australia (EPIC-NSW): design of an open label, single arm implementation trial (BMC public health (2018) 18 1 (210))', BMC public health, 18, pp. 297, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5173-7
,2018, 'Expanded HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation in communities in New South Wales, Australia (EPIC-NSW): Design of an open label, single arm implementation trial', BMC Public Health, 18, pp. 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-5018-9
,2018, 'Resurgence of scarlet fever in England, 2014–16: a population-based surveillance study', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18, pp. 180 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30693-X
,2018, 'Understanding the Targeting and Uptake of HIV Testing Among Gay and Bisexual Men Attending Sexual Health Clinics', AIDS and Behavior, 22, pp. 513 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-017-2012-2
,2018, 'Risk of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Relation to Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing, Repeat Testing, and Positivity: A Population-Based Cohort Study', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 66, pp. 437 - 443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix769
,2018, ''I see it everywhere': Young Australians unintended exposure to sexual content online', Sexual Health, 15, pp. 335 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH17132
,2018, 'Changing pattern of sexually transmissible infections and HIV diagnosed in public sexual health services compared with other locations in New South Wales, 2010-14', Sexual Health, 15, pp. 366 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH17183
,2018, 'Meeting sexual partners through internet sites and smartphone apps in Australia: National representative study', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/10683
,2017, 'Hepatitis C testing and re-testing among people attending sexual health services in Australia, and hepatitis C incidence among people with human immunodeficiency virus: Analysis of national sentinel surveillance data', BMC Infectious Diseases, 17, pp. 740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2848-0
,2017, 'Performance and operational characteristics of point-of-care tests for the diagnosis of urogenital gonococcal infections', Sexually transmitted infections, 93, pp. S16 - S21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2017-053192
,2017, 'Estimating the number of people who inject drugs in Australia', BMC Public Health, 17, pp. 757, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4785-7
,2017, 'Molecular antimicrobial resistance surveillance for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Northern Territory, Australia', Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23, pp. 1478 - 1485, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2309.170427
,2017, 'Increased Syphilis Testing of Men Who Have Sex With Men: Greater Detection of Asymptomatic Early Syphilis and Relative Reduction in Secondary Syphilis', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 65, pp. 389 - 395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix326
,2017, 'A snapshot of Chlamydia trachomatis genetic diversity using multilocus sequence type analysis in an Australian metropolitan setting', European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 36, pp. 1297 - 1303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-017-2935-6
,2017, 'Effect of availability of HIV self-testing on HIV testing frequency in gay and bisexual men at high risk of infection (FORTH): a waiting-list randomised controlled trial', The Lancet HIV, 4, pp. e241 - e250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(17)30023-1
,2017, 'Patient, staffing and health centre factors associated with annual testing for sexually transmissible infections in remote primary health centres.', Sexual Health, 14, pp. 274 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH16123
,2017, 'Delayed HIV Testing among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Australia Has Improved but Remains an Issue', Annals of Global Health, 83, pp. 168 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2017.03.377
,2017, 'Epidemiology of Escherichia coli bacteraemia in England: results of an enhanced sentinel surveillance programme', Journal of Hospital Infection, 95, pp. 365 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2016.12.008
,2017, 'Human papillomavirus vaccination and genital warts in young indigenous Australians: National sentinel surveillance data', Medical Journal of Australia, 206, pp. 204 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja16.00597
,2017, 'Genome analysis following a national increase in Scarlet Fever in England 2014', BMC Genomics, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3603-z
,2017, 'Changes in the rates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial resistance are primarily driven by dynamic fluctuations in common gonococcal genotypes', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 72, pp. 705 - 711, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkw452
,2017, 'Wide variation in sexually transmitted infection testing and counselling at Aboriginal primary health care centres in Australia: Analysis of longitudinal continuous quality improvement data', BMC Infectious Diseases, 17, pp. 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2241-z
,2017, 'Characteristics of pelvic inflammatory disease where no sexually transmitted infection is identified: A cross-sectional analysis of routinely collected sexual health clinic data', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 93, pp. 68 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2016-052553
,2017, 'Baseline preferences for daily, event-driven, or periodic hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis among gay and bisexual men in the prelude demonstration project', Frontiers in Public Health, 5, pp. 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00341
,2017, 'Biological and behavioral factors associated with positive chlamydia retests', Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 44, pp. 417 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000616
,2017, 'Improving feedback of surveillance data on antimicrobial consumption, resistance and stewardship in England: Putting the data at your Fingertips', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 72, pp. 953 - 956, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkw536
,2017, 'Multi-centre field evaluation of the performance of the Trinity Biotech Uni-Gold HIV 1/2 rapid test as a first-line screening assay for gay and bisexual men compared with 4th generation laboratory immunoassays', Journal of Clinical Virology, 86, pp. 46 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2016.11.006
,2017, 'Trends in chlamydia and gonorrhoea testing and positivity in Western Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women 2001-2013: A population-based cohort study', Sexual Health, 14, pp. 574 - 580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH16207
,2017, 'UriSwab: An effective transport medium for nucleic acid detection of Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium and Neisseria gonorrhoeae', Sexual Health, 14, pp. 502 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH16117
,2017, 'P53 Hepatitis C diagnostic testing trends in Victoria, 2010–2015', Journal of Virus Eradication, 3, pp. 30 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2055-6640(20)30794-9
,2016, 'A longitudinal cohort study of HIV 'treatment as prevention' in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: The Treatment with Antiretrovirals and their Impact on Positive And Negative men (TAIPAN) study protocol', BMC Infectious Diseases, 16, pp. 752, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-2073-2
,2016, 'A nurse-led intervention improved blood-borne virus testing and vaccination in Victorian prisons', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40, pp. 592 - 594, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12578
,2016, 'The Molecular Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Australia: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study, 2012', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 63, pp. 1591 - 1598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw648
,2016, 'Population attributable fraction of pelvic inflammatory disease associated with chlamydia and gonorrhoea: A cross-sectional analysis of Australian sexual health clinic data', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 92, pp. 525 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2015-052195
,2016, 'Real-time PCR detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae susceptibility to penicillin', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 71, pp. 3090 - 3095, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkw291
,2016, 'Identifying factors that lead to the persistence of imported gonorrhoeae strains: A modelling study', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 93, pp. 221 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2016-052738
,2016, 'Can preventive care activities in general practice be sustained when financial incentives and external audit plus feedback are removed? ACCEPt-able: A cluster randomised controlled trial protocol', Implementation Science, 11, pp. 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-016-0489-0
,2016, 'Metaanalysis of the Performance of a Combined Treponemal and Nontreponemal Rapid Diagnostic Test for Syphilis and Yaws', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 63, pp. 627 - 633, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw348
,2016, 'Reactive arthritis at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre 1992–2012: declining despite increasing chlamydia diagnoses', International Journal of STD and AIDS, 27, pp. 882 - 889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956462415598251
,2016, 'Descriptive epidemiology of Escherichia coli bacteraemia in England, april 2012 to march 2014', Eurosurveillance, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.35.30329
,2016, 'Low HIV testing rates among people with a sexually transmissible infection diagnosis in remote aboriginal communities', Medical Journal of Australia, 205, pp. 168 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja15.01392
,2016, 'A preliminary evaluation of a new GeneXpert (Gx) molecular point-of-care test for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 92, pp. 350 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2015-052384
,2016, 'Does Living Outside of a Major City Impact on the Timeliness of Chlamydia Treatment? A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Analysis', Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 43, pp. 506 - 512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000496
,2016, 'Treponema pallidum strain types and association with macrolide resistance in Sydney, Australia: New TP0548 gene types identified', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 54, pp. 2172 - 2174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00959-16
,2016, 'Field evaluation of xpert HPV point-of-care test for detection of human papillomavirus infection by use of self-collected vaginal and clinician-collected cervical specimens', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 54, pp. 1734 - 1737, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00529-16
,2016, 'Non-susceptibility of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., Pseudomonas spp., Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in the UK: Temporal trends in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 71, pp. 1564 - 1569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkw018
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