South African Medical Journal
Journal / South African Medical Journal / Vol. 105 No. 5 (2015) / Articles

 

GUEST EDITORIAL: The World Health Organization Global Action Plan for antimicrobial resistance

325-325

EDITORIAL: Antibiotic administration in the critically ill – in need of intensive care!

357-359

Key to antimicrobial stewardship success: Surveillance by diagnostic microbiology laboratories

359-360

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Africa

261-262

Community- versus healthcare-acquired bloodstream infections at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

363-369

A prospective observational study of bacteraemia in adults admitted to an urban Mozambican hospital

370-374

Kaposi’s sarcoma, a South African perspective: Demographic and pathological features

375-378

Ocular surface squamous neoplasia among HIV-infected patients in Botswana

379-383

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among children presenting to two referral hospitals in Harare, Zimbabwe

384-388

Validation of a severity-of-illness score in patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care unit admission

389-392

Outcomes of TB/HIV co-infected patients presenting with antituberculosis drug-induced liver injury

393-396

The poor children of the poor: Coping with diabetes control in a resource-poor setting

397-399

The success of various management techniques used in South African children with type 1 diabetes mellitus

400-404

Self-monitoring of blood glucose measurements and glycaemic control in a managed care paediatric type 1 diabetes practice

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

408-412

Review: Role of antibiotic stewardship in extending the age of modern medicine

414-419

Diagnosis of bacterial infection

Optimising the administration of antibiotics in critically ill patients

Twitter: A tool to improve healthcare professionals’ awareness of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship

Use of vaccines as a key antimicrobial stewardship strategy

Role of infection control in combating antibiotic resistance