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| Karin S LederSummaryAffiliation: Monash University Country: Australia Publications
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Effectiveness and cost of recruitment strategies for a community-based randomised controlled trial among rainwater drinkersShelly Rodrigo
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Med Res Methodol 9:51. 2009..This paper assesses the recruitment strategies for a 1-year double-blinded randomised trial on drinking untreated rainwater. The effectiveness of the recruitment strategies and associated costs are described...- Maximising response rates in household telephone surveysJoanne O'Toole
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
BMC Med Res Methodol 8:71. 2008..Accordingly, updated information is required about the rate of telephone listing in directories and optimal strategies to maximise survey participation... - Collecting household water usage data: telephone questionnaire or diary?Joanne E O'Toole
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
BMC Med Res Methodol 9:72. 2009..Costs and logistical aspects of each data collection tool were also examined... 
Illness in travelers visiting friends and relatives: a review of the GeoSentinel Surveillance NetworkKarin Leder
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Centre for Clinical Research Excellence, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
Clin Infect Dis 43:1185-93. 2006..A greater proportion of immigrant VFRs presented with serious, potentially preventable travel-related illnesses than did tourist travelers...- Water recycling -- forwards or backwards for public health?Karin S Leder
Med J Aust 190:293-4. 2009 - No correlation between clinical symptoms and Blastocystis hominis in immunocompetent individualsKarin Leder
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:1390-4. 2005..Conclusion: In conclusion, we found no correlation between clinical symptoms and the presence or absence of Blastocystis among this healthy cohort... 
Household clustering of gastroenteritisK Leder
School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Epidemiol Infect 137:1705-12. 2009..8%. Our results show that clustering of gastrointestinal symptoms within households occurs commonly, but reliance on pathogen notification data will substantially underestimate the true frequency of gastroenteritis clusters...- Respiratory infections during air travelK Leder
Victorian Infections Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Intern Med J 35:50-5. 2005.... - A comparative analysis of methodological approaches used for estimating risk in travel medicineKarin Leder
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Centre for Clinical Research Excellence, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
J Travel Med 15:263-72. 2008 - Malaria in travelers: a review of the GeoSentinel surveillance networkKarin Leder
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Clin Infect Dis 39:1104-12. 2004..Malaria is a common and important infection in travelers... - Water and the environment: a natural resource or a limited luxury?Karin Leder
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Vic
Med J Aust 177:609-13. 2002.... - Respiratory tract infections in travelers: a review of the GeoSentinel surveillance networkKarin Leder
Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Clin Infect Dis 36:399-406. 2003..Knowledge of the respiratory tract infections that occur in specific groups of travelers allows for the development of targeted pretravel preventive strategies to high-risk groups... - A community-based study of respiratory episodes in Melbourne, AustraliaKarin Leder
Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004
Aust N Z J Public Health 27:399-404. 2003..To provide recent data regarding the epidemiology of community-based respiratory infections in Australia... - Risk in the mist? Deriving data to quantify microbial health risks associated with aerosol generation by water-efficient devices during typical domestic water-using activitiesJ O'TOOLE
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Australia, The Alfred, Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Australia
Water Sci Technol 60:2913-20. 2009..The data provide information that assists in health risk assessment and in determining future research directions, including methodological aspects... - Influence of sample preservation on endotoxin measurement in waterJ O'TOOLE
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Australia, The Alfred, Commercial Rd, Melbourne 3004, Australia
Water Sci Technol 60:1615-9. 2009.... - Alternative water sources and endotoxinJ O'TOOLE
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Australia, The Alfred, Commercial Rd, Melbourne, 3004, Australia
Water Sci Technol 58:603-7. 2008.... - A survey of the characteristics and maintenance of rainwater tanks in urban areas of South AustraliaS Rodrigo
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne Victoria, 3004, Australia
Water Sci Technol 61:1569-77. 2010.... - Comparative survival of enteric indicators, E. coli and somatic and F-RNA bacteriophages on turf-grass irrigated with recycled waterJ O'TOOLE
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Australia, The Alfred, Commercial Rd, Melbourne 3004, Australia
Water Sci Technol 58:513-8. 2008..coli. The simulations of field conditions in the laboratory were somewhat problematic, with the variations in natural conditions that occur temporally, sometimes for short periods, difficult to reproduce... - Drinking rainwater: a double-blinded, randomized controlled study of water treatment filters and gastroenteritis incidenceShelly Rodrigo
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Am J Public Health 101:842-7. 2011..We examined whether drinking untreated rainwater, a practice that is on the rise in developed countries because of water shortages, contributes to community gastroenteritis incidence... - Dietary intake and domestic food preparation and handling as risk factors for gastroenteritis: a case-control studyT Z Mitakakis
Comparative Research Centre Water Quality and Treatment, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Epidemiol Infect 132:601-6. 2004..44-2.05, P< or = 001). Although food-handling and storage practices are considered important, we were unable to detect an association in this study... - Microsporidial disease in HIV-infected patients: a report of 42 patients and review of the literatureK Leder
Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Scand J Infect Dis 30:331-8. 1998..Albendazole therapy in patients with E. intestinalis (but not E. bieneusi) resulted in good clinical response... - Recycled water and human health effectsJoanne O'Toole
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, and Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 36:998-1000. 2007.... - Food safety in family homes in Melbourne, AustraliaTeresa Z Mitakakis
Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne 3004, Australia
J Food Prot 67:818-22. 2004..2%, and chicken was thawed using unsafe means by 76.3% of respondents. People preparing food in the home need to be reminded of the increased risk of disease that can arise from poor food handling practices... - Imported Plasmodium vivax malaria: demographic and clinical features in nonimmune travelersJulian H Elliott
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
J Travel Med 11:213-7. 2004..vivax malaria in travelers. P. vivax malaria is an important cause of morbidity in travelers, and relapse following primaquine treatment is especially problematic with P. vivax malaria acquired in PNG... - Influenza: changing approaches to prevention and treatment in travelersDavid O Freedman
Divsion of Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Travel Med 12:36-44. 2005 - Pathogens causing community gastroenteritis in AustraliaMartha I Sinclair
Cooperative Research Center for Water Quality and Treatment, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:1685-90. 2005..We aimed to identify the pathogens responsible for community gastroenteritis and to examine the associated symptoms... - Illness in returned travelers and immigrants/refugees: the 6-year experience of two Australian infectious diseases unitsDaniel P O'Brien
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Centre for Clinical Research Excellence, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
J Travel Med 13:145-52. 2006..Data comparing returned travelers and immigrants/refugees managed in a hospital setting is lacking... - Medically evaluated psychological and physical health of Australian Gulf War veterans with chronic fatigueHelen Kelsall
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Psychosom Res 60:575-84. 2006..The aim of this study was to evaluate fatigue in Australian Gulf War veterans and a military comparison group according to the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) definition and investigate the relation with exposures... - Gastrointestinal infection among international travelers globallyZoe Greenwood
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
J Travel Med 15:221-8. 2008..The objective of this study was to analyze infections associated with oral ingestion of pathogens in international travelers in relation to place of exposure... - Comparison of self-reported and recorded vaccinations and health effects in Australian Gulf War veteransHelen Kelsall
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Vaccine 26:4290-7. 2008..However, exposure assessment has usually been based on self-report and recall bias may have influenced the results... - Importation of poliomyelitis by travelersAnnelies Wilder-Smith
Emerg Infect Dis 14:351-2; author reply 352. 2008 - Factors associated with deep sternal wound infection and haemorrhage following cardiac surgery in VictoriaPenelope J Robinson
NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Therapeutics, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 6:167-71. 2007..Improvements in operative factors (perfusion time, ventricular assist device, intraaortic balloon pump and aortic dissection) and surgical technique, may impact on reducing the incidence of haemorrhage... - Vitamin D deficiency is associated with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection in immigrants from sub-Saharan AfricaKatherine B Gibney
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Clin Infect Dis 46:443-6. 2008..001). Higher vitamin D levels were associated with lower probability of any M. tuberculosis infection (P=.001) and lower probability of tuberculosis or past tuberculosis (compared with latent tuberculosis infection; P=.001)... - Alternative water sources and reuse: what are the public health issues? National water-recycling guidelines will address both health and environmental risksTeresa Z Mitakakis
Med J Aust 180:260-1. 2004 - The effect of age on immunologic response to recombinant hepatitis B vaccine: a meta-analysisDavid N Fisman
City of Hamilton Social and Public Health Services Department, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Clin Infect Dis 35:1368-75. 2002..These findings have important implications for individuals at risk for hepatitis B infection, including health care workers and travelers... - An alternative scoring system to predict risk for surgical site infection complicating coronary artery bypass graft surgeryN Deborah Friedman
Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:1162-8. 2007..To analyze the risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) complicating coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and to create an alternative SSI risk score based on the results of multivariate analysis...