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Health Stream Newsletter

Staff of the Unit produce Health Stream - the quarterly public health newsletter of Water Quality Research Australia. Health Stream provides information on topical issues in health research of particular relevance to the water industry, and updates on the recent literature.
This publication is available in hardcopy and on the Web page of Water Quality Research Australia Limited.

 

2011

JM Pasricha, AC Street, K Leder. A rash and cough in a traveller. Clin Infect Dis, 2011;53(2):205-6.

M Malawaraarachchi, J O’Toole, M Sinclair, K Leder. Review of greywater use in Australia. Water Journal, July 2011: 97-102.

P Gautret, P Lim, M Shaw, K Leder. Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in travelers returning from Bali, Indonesia, November 2008-December 2009. CMI, 2011;17(3):445-7

S. Rodrigo, M. Sinclair, R. Wolfe, K. Leder Risk factors for gastroenteritis: A nested case-control study. Epi and Infect, 2011;139(4):552-9. 

S Rodrigo, M Sinclair, A Forbes, D Cunliffe, K Leder. Drinking Rainwater: A Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Study of Water Treatment Filters and Gastroenteritis Incidence.  Am J Pub Health, 2011, 101(5): 842-847.

2010

Leggat P, Leder K. Reducing the impact of influenza amongst travelers. J Trav Med, 2010;17(6):363-6.

M I Sinclair, J O’Toole, A Forbes, D Carr, K Leder. Health Status of Residents of Urban Dual Reticulation Systems. Int J Epidemiology,  2010;39(6):1667-75.

 

Talbot EA, Chen LH, Sanford C, McCarthy A, Leder K. Travel Medicine Research Priorities: Establishing an Evidence Base. J Trav Med, 2010;17(6):410-5.  

K Dale, M Kirk, M Sinclair, R Hall, K Leder. Reported waterborne outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease in Australia are predominantly associated with recreational exposure. Aust NZ J Pub Health, 2010; 34:527-30.

 

O’Toole J, Sinclair M, Leder K. Quantitative microbial risk assessment and Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: two case studies. Food Australia, 2010, 62(Sep):408.

 

A J Stewardson, K Leder, Joseph Torresi, D Johnson. Two cases of Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Australian travelers visiting Morocco. J Trav Med, 2010: 17;278–280. 

D M Urquhart, F S Hanna, S L Brennan, A E Wluka, K Leder, P Cameron, S Graves, F M Cicuttini. Incidence and Risk Factors for Deep Surgical Site Infection Following Primary Total Hip Replacement: A Systematic Review. Journal of Arthroplasty, 2010 25(8):1216-22. 

P Jones, I Woolley, K Leder, P Cameron, A Cheng, D Spelman. The care of asplenic and hyposplenic patient: Best practice guidelines. Australian Family Physician, 2010;39(6):383-6.

S Hagmann, N Reddy, R Neugebauer, M Purswani, K Leder. Identification of Future Travelers Visiting Friends and Relatives Abroad by Assessing Intention to Travel among Immigrant Families. J Trav Med, 2010;17(3):193-6.

Rodrigo S, Sinclair M, Leder K. A survey of the characteristics and maintenance of rainwater tanks in urban areas of South Australia.Water Science & Technology, 2010;61(6):1569-77.

MK Yong, CL Beckett, J Black, J Torresi, B ABiggs, K Leder, DP O'Brien. A longitudinal observational follow up study of Schistosomiasis serology in Australian travellers and immigrants. J Trav Med, 2010;17(2):89-93.

P Schlagenhauf., LH Chen., ME Wilson, DO Freedman, D Tcheng, ESchwartz, P Pandey, R Weber, D Nadal., C Berger, F von Sonnenburg, J Keystone, K Leder, for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network. Gender and Travel-Associated Illness. Clin Infect Dis, 2010;50(6): 826-832.

2009

K Dale, R Wolfe, MI Sinclair, ME Hellard, K Leder. Sporadic gastroenteritis and recreational swimming in a longitudinal community cohort study in Melbourne, Australia. Am J Epidemiology, 2009;170(2):1469-1477.

P Jones, K Leder, IJ Woolley, P Cameron, D Spelman. Patient knowledge of the risks of post splenectomy sepsis. ANZ J Surg, 2009; 79(11);854-856.

O’Toole J, Sinclair M, Keywood M, Leder K. Risk in the Mist? – Deriving data to quantify microbial health risks associated with aerosol generation by water-efficient devices during typical domestic water-using activities. Water Science and Technology, 2009;60(11):2913-20.

J Torresi, K Leder. Defining the Spectrum of Infections in International Travellers through the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network. Nature Rev (Microbiology), 2009, 7(12): 895-901.

O’Toole J, Sinclair M, Leder K. Collecting household water usage data: telephone questionnaire or diary? BMC Medical Research Methodology, 9 (72), 2009.

N Chaves, K B. Gibney, K Leder, D O’Brien, C Marshall, BA Biggs. Adequacy of screening practices and burden of disease among Myanmar refugees referred to the infectious diseases unit of a tertiary referral hospital  in Melbourne, Australia. Emerg Infect Dis, 2009, 15 (11):1769-72.

M Jensenius, X Davis, F von Sonnenburg, E Schwartz, J S. Keystone, K Leder, R Lopéz-Véléz, E Caumes, J P Cramer, L Chen, and P Parola for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network. A multicenter GeoSentinel.analysis of rickettsial diseases in international travelers, 1996-2008, Emerg Infect Dis, 2009, 15 (11):1769-72:1791-8.

HL. Kelsall, DP. McKenzie, MR. Sim, K Leder, AB. Forbes, T Dwyer. Physical, psychological and functional comorbidities of multisymptom illness in Australian male veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. Am J Epidemiology, 2009, 170 (8):1048-1056.

O’Toole, J., Sinclair, M., Jeavons T., Leder, K. Influence of Sample Preservation on Endotoxin Measurement in Water. Water Science and Technology, 2009, 60(6):1615-9.

Rodrigo S, Sinclair M, Leder K. Effectiveness and cost of recruitment strategies for a community-based randomised controlled trial among rainwater drinkers. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2009;9:51.

K Leder, M Sinclair, D Wain. Household clustering of gastroenteritis. Epidemiol Infect, 2009;1:1-8.

K Gibney, S Mihrshai, J Torresi, CMarshall, K Leder, BA Biggs. The profile of health problems in African Immigrants attending an Infectious Disease Unit in Melbourne, Australia. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2009; 80(5):805-811.

O’Toole, J., Sinclair, M. and Leder K. Using bacteriophages in recycled water exposure assessment studies. Food and Environmental Virology, 2009;1(1):23-30.

O’Toole, J., Rodrigo, S., Sinclair, M. and Leder, K. The Australian Electoral Commission Role has good utility for ‘niche’ household recruitment in exposure assessment studies. Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2009; 33(2):137-139.

Leder K, O'Toole JE, Sinclair MI. Water recycling -- forwards or backwards for public health? Med J Aust. 2009;190(6):293-4.

O'Toole J, Sinclair M, Leder K. Transfer rates of enteric micro-organisms in recycled water during machine clothes washing.Appl Environ Microbiol, 2009;75(5):1256-63.

K Leder. Travelers as a Sentinel Population: Use of Sentinel Networks to Inform Pretravel and Posttravel Evaluation. Curr Inf Dis Rep, 2009; 11(1):51-8.

2008

J O’Toole, M Sinclair, K Leder. Recycled water exposure: Filling the data gaps. Water, 2008; Dec: 66-71.

O’Toole, J., Sinclair, M. and Leder K. Maximising Response Rates in Household surveys. BMC Medical Research Methodolgy, 2008;8(1):71.

H Kelsall, DMcKenzie, M Sim, K Leder, J Ross, A Forbes, J Ikin. Comparison of self-reported and recorded vaccinations and health effects in Australian Gulf War veterans. Vaccine. 2008;26(33):4290-7.

K Leder, ME Wilson, DO Freedman and J Torresi. A comparative analysis of methodological approaches used for estimating risk in travel medicine. J Trav Medicine 2008;15(4):263-72.

J. O’Toole M. Sinclair and C. Diaper, K. Leder. Comparative survival of enteric indicators, E.coli and somatic and F-RNA bacteriophages on turf-grass irrigated with recycled water. Water Sci Technol. 2008;58(3):513-518.

J. O’Toole, M. Sinclair and T. Jeavons, K. Leder. Alternative water sources and endotoxin. Water Sci Technol. 2008;58(3):609-613.

Z Greenwood, J Black, LWeld, D O’Brien, K Leder, F Von Sonnenberg, P Pandey, E Schwartz, BA Connor, DO Freedman, G Brown, J Torresi,  for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Group. Regional relative risks of gastrointestinal infection among international travelers – a global perspective. J Travel Med. 2008;15(4):221-8.

Wilder-Smith A, Leder K, Tambyah PA. Importation of poliomyelitis to polio free countries via travelers: a test case for the revised international health regulations? EID, 2008, 14(2).

Gibney KB, MacGregor L, Leder K, Torresi J, Marshall C, Ebeling PR, Biggs BA. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Clin Infect Dis, 2008, 46(3):443-6.

2007

Friedman ND, Bull AL, Russo PL, Leder K, Reid C, Billah B, Marasco S,, McBryde E, Richards MJ. An Alternative Scoring System to Predict Risk for Surgical Site Infection Complicating Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2007; 28(10):1162-8.