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 | |