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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 323-324 |
Guest Editorial
| The World Health Organization Global Action Plan for antimicrobial resistance | |
| Marc Mendelson, Malebona Precious Matsoso | 325 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | |
| Janet Seggie | 326-327 |
Correspondence
| VIM-2 carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a patient from Port Elizabeth, South Africa | |
| Sharlene Govender, Tinashe Masunda, John Black | 328 |
| Paediatric chemoprophylaxis for child contacts of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis: Are current guidelines effective in preventing disease? | |
| Nesri Padayatchi, Naressa Naidu | 328-329 |
| Tracking antenatal HIV prevalence in South Africa | |
| Palesa Nkomo, Ameena Goga | 329 |
| Outcomes in treatment with darunavir/ritonavir in ART-experienced paediatric patients | |
| Gurpreet Kindra, Nosisa Sipambo, Harry Moultrie, Lee Fairlie | 330-331 |
| Better menstrual management options for adolescents needed in South Africa: What about the menstrual cup? | |
| Mags Beksinska, Jennifer Smit, Ross Greener, Virginia Maphumulo, Zonke Mabude | 331 |
| Masterly inactivity: A forgotten precept | |
| François Mai | 332 |
Izindaba
| Lifesaving water quality solution 'ignored' | |
| 333 |
| Little-used medical technology could help thousands see, hear and feel better… | |
| 334-336 |
| SAMA pitches in to help victims of adverse medical events | |
| 337-338 |
| Tygerberg Hospital keeps more hearts beating with pioneering service | |
| 338-339 |
| Government inability to harness high-tech radiology blurs NHI vision | |
| 339-340 |
Obituaries
| Philippe Emile Agnes Schuermans | |
| Jean Schuermans | 341 |
Forum
| The simple bread tag – a menace to society? | |
| Ryan Karro, Pierre Goussard, James Loock, Robert Gie | 342-344 |
| Updated recommendations for the management of upper respiratory tract infections in South Africa | |
| Adrian J Brink, Mark F Cotton, Charles Feldman, Heather Finlayson, Ray L Friedman, Robin Green, Willy Hendson, Maurice H Hockman, Gary Maartens, Shabir A Madhi, Gary Reubenson, Eddie J Silverbauer, Inge L Zietsman | 345-352 |
| Description of an internal medicine outreach consultant appointment in western KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2007 to mid-2014 | |
| Robert Ian Caldwell, Bernhard Gaede, Colleen Aldous | 353-356 |
Editorial
| Antibiotic administration in the critically ill - in need of intensive care! | |
| Mervyn Mer, Jeffrey Lipman | 357-359 |
| Key to antimicrobial stewardship success: Surveillance by diagnostic microbiology laboratories | |
| Warren Lowman | 359-360 |
| Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Africa | |
| Antoinette Myrna Cilliers | 361-362 |
Research
| Community- versus healthcare-acquired bloodstream infections at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Rachel McKay, Colleen Bamford | 363-369 |
| A prospective observational study of bacteraemia in adults admitted to an urban Mozambican hospital | |
| Michael Preziosi, Tomas Francisco Zimba, Kristen Lee, Manuel Tomas, Suraida Kinlin, Clotilde Nhatave-Paiva, Rosa Bene, Tania Paunde, Helder Lopes, Stephen Kalkhoff, Vishnu Prathap, Kevan Akrami, Emilia Virginia Noormahomed, Robert Turner Schooley, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer | 370-374 |
| Kaposi’s sarcoma, a South African perspective: Demographic and pathological features | |
| Reena Dhansukh Mohanlal, Sugeshnee Pather | 375-378 |
| Ocular surface squamous neoplasia among HIV-infected patients in Botswana | |
| Katherine T Steele, Andrew P Steenhoff, Gregory P Bisson, Oatlhokwa Nkomazana | 379-383 |
| Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among children presenting to two referral hospitals in Harare, Zimbabwe | |
| Paradzai Gapu, Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Gwen Kandawasvika, David Kao, Charles Bannerman, James Hakim, Jonathan A Matenga | 384-388 |
| Validation of a severity-of-illness score in patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care unit admission | |
| Coenraad Frederik N Koegelenberg, Cecile A Balkema, Ynishia Jooste, Jantjie J Taljaard, Elvis M Irusen | 389-392 |
| Outcomes of TB/HIV co-infected patients presenting with antituberculosis drug-induced liver injury | |
| S Naidoo, D Evans, E Jong, K Mellet, R Berhanu | 393-396 |
| The poor children of the poor: Coping with diabetes control in a resource-poor setting | |
| F P R de Villiers | 397-399 |
| The success of various management techniques used in South African children with type 1 diabetes mellitus | |
| Kerry Leigh Kalweit, Nanette Briers, Steve A S Olorunju | 400-404 |
| Self-monitoring of blood glucose measurements and glycaemic control in a managed care paediatric type 1 diabetes practice | |
| Beverley Davey, David Grant Segal | 405-407 |
| Role of splenectomy for immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in the era of new second-line therapies and in the setting of a high prevalence of HIV-associated ITP | |
| Katherine Rae Antel, Eugenio Panieri, Nicolas Novitzky | 408-412 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Practical solutions to the antibiotic resistance crisis | |
| M Mendelson | 413 |
| Role of antibiotic stewardship in extending the age of modern medicine | |
| M Mendelson | 414-418 |
| Diagnosis of bacterial infection | |
| T H Boyles, S Wasserman | 419 |
| Optimising the administration of antibiotics in critically ill patients | |
| G A Richards, I A Joubert, A J Brink | 419 |
| Twitter: A tool to improve healthcare professionals’ awareness of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship | |
| D A Goff, D van den Bergh | 420 |
| Use of vaccines as a key antimicrobial stewardship strategy | |
| A J Brink, G A Richards | 421 |
| Role of infection control in combating antibiotic resistance | |
| A C Whitelaw | 421 |
| A lady with a broken heart: Apical ballooning syndrome | |
| C Rush, N Ntsekhe | 422 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |