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Listed below are the ASA newsletters available for public viewing.
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  • Daptomycin (Michelle Porter)
  • Topical Fluoroquinolone Eardrops: Who Needs Them? (John Turnidge)
  • ASA Travel Awards
  • AGAR Updates
  • ASA Journal Club
  • Cefepime Dosing in the ICU (David Andresen)
  • A Test to Help Guide Duration of Antibiotics in CAP (Michael Watson)
  • Antimicrobials 2007
  • ASA Picture Quiz: December 2006 (Peter Taylor)
  • Answer to September 2006 ASA Picture Quiz (Koh Tse Hsien)
  • Meeting Calendar

  • The Response of Microbiology Laboratories to the Threat of Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance: How are we Doing? (Fred Tenover)
  • Clinical Conundrum #1 - Response
  • ASA Journal Club
  • Automated Susceptibility Testing of Staphylococci and Enterococci using the Phoenix System (Desmond Chi and Gary Lum)
  • Daptomycin in S aureus Bacteraemia (Ronan Murray)
  • Picture Quiz September 2006 (Koh Tse Hsien)
  • Meeting Calendar

  • Three 'Cs' of Colistin (Jian Li and Roger Nation)
  • IDPSIG Workshop 2006 (Sharmila Melvani)
  • Presidents Report (Keryn Christiansen)
  • Clinical Conudrum #1
  • ASA Journal Club
  • Phenotypic Detection of Metallo Beta-Lactamases in Non-Fermenters (Clare Franklin)
  • Plasmid Mediated Quinolone Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae (Barbara Henderson)
  • Lamivudine Therapy for Lamivudine-Resistanr HIV Infection (Owen Robinson)
  • Meeting Calendar

  • Intravenous to Oral (IV to PO) Antimicrobial Switching (Matthew Rawlins and Lana Cerbe)
  • 2006 ASA AstraZeneca ICAAC Travel Award
  • Antimicrobials 2007
  • ASA Journal Club
  • Linezolid for the Treatment of Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome (Ben Howden)
  • Selective Broth for MRSA Detection: Does Cefoxitin Trump Oxacillin (Peta Perry)
  • Moxifloxacin for Community-acquired Intra-abdominal Infections (Meredith Hodge)
  • Meeting Calendar

  • The National Antimicrobial Utilisation Program (Kate Dollman)
  • Pristinamycin (Julia Carroll)
  • Answers to Picture Quiz September 2005
  • Fluoroquinolones and Tuberculosis (Elaine Cheong and Tom Gottlieb)
  • ASA Journal Club
  • Meeting Calender

  • Antimicrobials and Drug Interactions (Louis Roller)
  • Response to the ASA June 2005 Picture Quiz
  • Tigecycline: A New Glycylcycline (Sharmila Melvani)
  • ASA Journal Club
  • Antimicrobials in Established Coronary Artery Disease
  • Home-IV Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
  • Microarray Based Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Brave New World in the Diagnostic Laboratory?
  • Picture Quiz September 2005
  • Meeting Calendar

  • Adverse Reactions to Antibacterial Agents (Louis Roller)
  • Antimicrobials 2005 in Review (Matthew Rawlins)
  • Responses to Recent ASA Picture Quizzes
  • ASA Journal Club
  • Picture Quiz June 2005
  • Meeting Calendar

  • Cefoxitin versus oxacillin for the detection of oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (Page 1) Janet Montgomery, Judy Bywater, Helen King and Benjamin Howden
  • First annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Pharmacists Special Interest Group (Page 3)
  • Simone Taylor
  • ASA Journal Club March 2005 (Page 4)
  • Association between antibiotic sales and public campaign for their appropriate use (Reviewed by Gary Lum)
  • Randomised controlled trial of intravenous antibiotic treatment for cellulitis at home compared with hospital. Association between antibiotic sales and public campaigns for their appropriate use (Reviewed by Maryza Graham)
  • Kinetics of cytomegalovirus load decrease in solid-organ transplant recipients after pre-emptive therapy with valganciclovir (Reviewed by James Flexman)
  • Answers to Picture Quiz (December 2004) (Page 6)
  • Picture Quiz (March 2005) (Page 7)President's Report - AGM Lorne, Victoria (24 February 2005)
  • (Keryn Christiansen) (Page 8)
  • Meeting Calender (Page 9)

  • Susceptibility Testing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Cystic Fibrosis Patients to Meropenem, Ticarcillin/Clavulanate/Cedtazidime and Ciprofloxacin Using Three Methods (Robert Clark)
  • Antimicrobials, Resistance and the Internet (Jayshree Dave, John Kelly and Ronan Murray)
  • A New Agar Dilution Screening Method for the Accurate Detection of heterogeneous-Vancomycin Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (Ben Howden, Peter Ward, Shirley Xie, Jenny Wang, Paul Johnson, Patrick Charles and Lindsay Grayson)
  • Answer to Picture Quiz from ASA Newsletter #18
  • Picture Quiz

  • Antimicrobials, Resistance and the Internet
    Part 1: Australian-based Websites and Email Discussion Groups (R Murray and D Chih)
  • ASA 2004 Awards
  • President's Report (J Turnidge)
  • Identification and Susceptibility Testing of Nocardia Species (C Coulter and C Gilpin)
  • Picture Quiz (C Ashhurst-Smith)

  • Antifungal Therapy: Recent Advances and Future Challenges (C Heath)
  • Antimicrobials 2004 in Review (F O'Brien and S Tristram)
  • NCCLS Update (J Turnidge)
  • Picture Quiz - MRSA (C McCullough)

  • Bacteraemia Caused by Heteroresistant Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA): Is it Cause for Concern? (P Charles, P Ward, P Johnson, B Howden and L Grayson)
  • Treatment of Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) Infections (B Howden, P Ward, P Charles and L Grayson)
  • The QHPSS Antibiogram: A Practical System for Passive Susceptibility Surveillance in Australia? (G Nimmo)
  • AGAR News (G Coombs)
  • Picture Quiz (Klebsiella pneumoniae)

  • A Review of Antibiotic Prophylaxis at a Sydney Teaching Hospital (P Valeh, N Gilroy, M Poynten and T Gottlieb)
  • Correlating the Detection of vanB Genes in Faeces to the Presence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE): Interference by vanB-containing Anaerobes (S Ballard, E Grabscg, S Xie, P Johnson and L Grayson)
  • The Inability of the NCCLS Disc Diffusion Oxacillin Interpretive Breakpoint for Staphlococcus aureus to Reliably Detect Oxacillin Susceptible Staphylococcus lugdunensis (C McCullough, G Coombs, S Rodgers and K Christiansen)
  • Picture Quiz -S aureus (J Faoagali and J Bodman)

  • Antimicrobials in Consumer Products (D Adams and P Collignon)
  • Anticrobial Anecdotes Number 2 (J Turnidge)
  • Vancomycin - Digger Bigger Troughs? (C Rayner)
  • Screening for and Detection of Vancomycin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus in the Routine Laboratory (C Franklin)
  • Picture Quiz - Candida albicans (D Ellis)

  • Bali Bugs (C McCullough, K Christiansen and G Coombs)
  • Presidents Report - May 2003 (J Turnidge)
  • A Review of New Fluoroquinolones Available in Australia (S Melvani)
  • What's New in "Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotics", Version 12, 2003 (J Dartnell and D Looke)
  • Picture Quiz - Klebsiella sp (M Yates, K Ho, K Coultas and M Cullen)

  • VISA and hVISA in Australia and New Zealand (P Ward, P Charles, B Howden, P Johnson, B Mayall and M Grayson)
  • Antimicrobial Anecdotes (J Turnidge)
  • Conference Report: 8th Western Pacific Congress for Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases (G Coombs)

  • Vancomycin: Continuously Used, Intermittently Debated (M Taylor and C Rayner)
  • Are Teicoplanin Levels Important - Should we be Monitoring Them? (G Kotsiou and C Fernandes)
  • Picture Quiz - E Coli (W Monaghan, M Sellars and G Nimmo)
  • New Antifungal Agents (M Slavin)
  • Performance of Real-Time Multiplex PCR Assay Versus Culture for the Rapid Detection of vanA and vanB Genes Directly from Clinical Specimens (I Kay, S Palladino, J Flexman, I Boehm, A-M Costa, E Lambert and K Christiansen)

  • Detection and Significance of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases in Bacteria other than Klebsiella pneumoniae (D Paterson)
  • Antibiotic Usage Figures: Sorting the Wood from the Trees (S Kirsa)
  • Non-Multiresistant Oxacillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (NORSA) in South-East Queensland (W Munckhof, J Schooneveldt, G Coombs, J Hoare and G Nimmo)
  • Chromogenic Detection of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Novel Methods in the Screening for Antimicrobial Resistance in Nosocomial Pathogens (J Merlino)

  • The Control of Vancomycin Use in Hospital (D Looke and J Radford)
  • Correlation of Prior Antibiotic Consumption with Colonisation and Infection by a Single Strain of vanB Enterococus faecium in Nephrology and Respiratory Patients During a Hospital Outbreak (P Cooper, J Pearman, S Cordova, P Tenni, M Rawlins, B Jenkins, J Wright and K Christiansen)
  • Antimicrobials 2002 Conference Report (G Coombs)
  • Picture Quiz - Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (J Robson)

  • Antimicrobial Agents in the Treatment and Prophylaxis of Acts of Bio-Terrorism: Focus on Anthrax (T Allworth)
  • Automated Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Part 2: Broth Microdilution Instrumentation - A Report on New Systems (L Joyce)
  • Picture Quiz - Cryptococcus neoformans (D Marriott, J Harkness and D Ellis)
  • Chemoprophylaxis for Contacts of Cases of Meningococcal Disease (R Munroe)
  • Letter to the Editor: More on ESBL Testing...(R Clark)

  • New Antibiotics in the Treatment of Multi-Resistant Gram-Positive Infections (C Rayner and W Munckhof)
  • Automated Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Part 1: A Report on an Automated Zone Reader for Disc Diffusion Testing (C Franklin)
  • Picture Quiz - S aureus P Ward, B Mayall and L Grayson)
  • Report from the RCPA Microbiology Quality Assurance Program (M de Borde, C Fernandes and R Pritchard)
  • More on MLSB Resistance

  • Resistance to Antifungal Agents: An Overview (C Heath)
  • Prudent Use of Antibiotics in Animals (M Barton)
  • Implementing JETACAR (G Lum)
  • What is AGAR all about? A Brief History of the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (G Nimmo)
  • Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Helicobacter pylori (P Midolo)

  • Pharmacist's Roles in the Quality Use of Antimicrobial Agents (K Coulthard and R Plumridge)
  • Presidents Report (J Turnidge)
  • Antimicrobials 2001 Conference Report (W Munckhof)
  • Picture Quiz - ESBL (G Coombs)
  • In Vitro Antifungal Activity of Voriconazole Against Moulds (R Perrie and D Ellis)
  • The Ability of Mueller Hinton Agar to Detect Low-Expression-Class MRSA (G Coombs, C McCullough, J Boehm and K Christiansen)
  • Development of a Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection of Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococci Directly from Blood Culture (S Jovetic, M Deighton and L Joyce)
  • Postantibiotic Growth Suppression of Linezolid Against Gram-Positive Bacteria (W Munckhof, C Giles and J Turnidge)

  • Survey of ESBL Reporting in Australian Laboratories (C Pitman)
  • Therapeutic Guidelines - Antibiotic Version 11 2000 (K Christiansen)
  • Drug Resistance in Parasites (J McCarthy)
  • Distribution Pharmacokinetcs of Once-Daily Tobramycin in Children with Cystic Fibrosis (K Coulthard, A Aabenhus, K Moen, P Baghurst, C Hirth, J Turnidge, and J Martin)
  • Topical Antimicrobials - Time for a Rethink (J Turnidge)

  • In Vitro Detection of Staphylococcus aureus with Reduced Susceptibility to Vancomycin (G Coombs and K Christiansen)
  • Picture Quiz - Providencia rettgeri
  • Antimicrobials 2000: A Hard Act to Follow (G Nimmo)
  • The Role of the Laboratory in Managing Infections Due to Rapidly-Growing Mycobacteria - Mini Review (D Dawson)

  • Susceptibility Testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Enterococci. Comparison of CDS and NCCLS Procedures (C Fernandes, M de Borde, R Pritchard and B Gatus)
  • NCCLS Updates
  • Optimising Antimicrobial Use (S Benson)
  • Animal Antibiotic Use and Resistance Problems for Humans (J Turnidge)
  • Issues with Burkhoderia cepacia in 2000 - Mini Review (P Taylor)

  • The Australian Society for Antimicrobials (ASA) is Born (J Turnidge)
  • The Role of Multiplex mecA/nuc PCR for Routine Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococci (G Coombs, I Kay, J Pearman and K Christiansen)
  • Extended-Spectrum á-Lactamase Detection in the Clinical Laboratory (L Mulgrave)
  • Comparison of Laboratory Methods for Detection of ESBL Production in Multi-Resistant Gram-negative Organsims (J Harper and G Nimmo)
  • The Rare Antimicrobial Resistance Register (Australia) - RARR (L Joyce)

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