November 2020

Covid-19 exposes the gaps in infection prevention and control
• Stephanie J. Dancer
Published online: August 19, 2020
p223-226

COVID-19 papers

Concerns for low-resource countries, with under-prepared intensive care units, facing the COVID-19 pandemic
• Muhammed Elhadi,
• Ahmed Msherghi,
• Mohammed Alkeelani,
• ...
• Bushray Almiqlash,
• Marwa Biala,
• Esra Alghanai
Published online: June 05, 2020
p227-232

Understanding Covid-19 transmission: The effect of temperature and health behavior on transmission rates
• Ahmet Ozyigit
Published online: July 08, 2020
p233-238
COVID-19 in a complex obstetric patient with cystic fibrosis
• Andrew Walczak,
• Kathryn Wilks,
• Rebekah Shakhovskoy,
• ...
• Carmel Taylor,
• David Reid,
• Keat Choong
Published online: July 23, 2020
p239-241

Quantifying what could have been – The impact of the Australian and New Zealand governments’ response to COVID-19
• Chris Varghese,
• William Xu
Published online: May 26, 2020
p242-244

Regular papers

A retrospective observational study on enterococcal bacteraemia and endocarditis at a regional hospital in New South Wales, Australia
• N. Lwin,
• A. Bannan
Published online: June 16, 2020
p245-252

Characteristics of personal protective equipment training programs in Australia and New Zealand hospitals: A survey
• Ruth Barratt,
• Ramon Z. Shaban,
• Gwendolyn L. Gilbert
Published online: June 26, 2020
p253-261

Prevalence of device use and transmission based precautions in nineteen large Australian acute care public hospitals: Secondary outcomes from a national healthcare associated infection point prevalence survey
• Philip L. Russo,
• Andrew J. Stewardson,
• Allen C. Cheng,
• Tracey Bucknall,
• Brett G. Mitchell
Published online: June 25, 2020
p262-267
Open Access

Hospital MRSA outbreaks: Multiplex PCR-reverse line blot binary typing as a screening method for WGS, and the role of the environment in transmission
• Genevieve McKew,
• Marc Ramsperger,
• Elaine Cheong,
• Thomas Gottlieb,
• Vitali Sintchenko,
• Matthew O'Sullivan
Published online: June 29, 2020
p268-276
Readability of online dengue materials: The need for accessible information as part of infectious disease prevention and control efforts
• Zoe Meleo-Erwin,
• Corey H. Basch,
• Joseph Fera,
• Philip Garcia
Published online: June 19, 2020
p277-282
Initiating tuberculosis treatment at end of life – Balancing patient and infection control interests
• Adam G. Stewart,
• Hugh Wright
Published online: July 07, 2020
p283-285

Scope of practice and educational needs of infection prevention and control professionals in Australian residential aged care facilities
• Ramon Z. Shaban,
• Cristina Sotomayor-Castillo,
• Deborough Macbeth,
• Philip L. Russo,
• Brett G. Mitchell
Published online: July 22, 2020
p286-293
Factors contributing to needle stick injuries among new registered nurses at a hospital in Trinidad
• Caimete Smith Kwanzaa,
• Keshmer Clarke,
• Christine Ramlal,
• Rabindranath Singh,
• Oscar Noel Ocho
Published online: August 12, 2020
p294-301
Assessing patient understanding of their antimicrobial treatment: How are we doing and how might we improve?
• Kim Yeoh,
• Catherine George,
• Arjun Rajkhowa,
• Kirsty Buising
Published online: August 11, 2020
p302-308
Antibiotic prescribing in surgery: A clinically and socially complex problem in Australia
• Courtney Ierano,
• Arjun Rajkhowa,
• Trisha Peel,
• Caroline Marshall,
• Darshini Ayton,
• Karin Thursky
Published online: May 19, 2020
p309-313
Successful treatment of invasive carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae infections in children using carbapenem–aminoglycoside combination therapy: A case series
• Phoebe C.M. Williams,
• Adam W. Bartlett,
• Pamela Palasanthiran,
• Benjamin Armstrong,
• Brendan J. McMullan
Published online: July 19, 2020
p314-318
Back to the basics: Hand washing is public health 101 and it works to slow down the spread of viruses
• Hilary B. Tabish,
• Corey H. Basch
Published online: September 02, 2020
p319-320