Disease relevance of South Australia

• A Legionella-like organism (strain 1762-AUS-E) was isolated from a cooling tower of an air-conditioning system in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The isolate was presumptively identified as a Legionella strain by its growth requirement for L-cysteine and its cellular branched-chain fatty acids [1].
• This is the first report of filamentous actinobacteria isolated from surface-sterilized root tissues of healthy wheat plants (Triticum aestivum L.). Wheat roots from a range of sites across South Australia were used as the source material for the isolation of the endophytic actinobacteria [2].
• CONCLUSIONS: Antenatal screening for neural tube defects in South Australia achieved a higher level of sensitivity with the maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein programme in place [3].
• A virus was isolated by Eric French in Victoria, and about the same time by John Miles and colleagues in South Australia. The virus Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) virus, was shown to be a Group B arbovirus (flavivirus) which was related to, but distinct from, Japanese encephalitis virus [4].
• Sudden infant death syndrome in South Australia 1968-97. Part I: changes over time [5].

High impact information on South Australia

• We have therefore examined the relationship between birthsize and melatonin secretion in 159 men and women aged 20, born in Adelaide, South Australia. Melatonin secretion was estimated by analysing the overnight urinary excretion of 6-sulphatoxymelatonin [6].
• Use of psychostimulant medication for ADHD in South Australia [7].
• Re: "Congenital malformations and maternal drinking water supply in rural South Australia: a case-control study" [8].
• The impact of acid rock drainage (ARD) and eutrophication on microbial communities in stream sediments above and below an abandoned mine site in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, was quantified by PLFA analysis [9].
• AIMS: The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of methadone syrup injecting in Adelaide, South Australia and to characterize methadone injectors, including their heroin use and risk behaviours associated with heroin overdose [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of South Australia

• Surveillance of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in South Australia [11].
• Distribution of coronal and root caries experience among persons aged 60+ in South Australia [12].

Biological context of South Australia

• RESULTS: Greater exposure to fluoride in water was associated with lower dmfs and DMFS in both states (P < .01), although in South Australia the effect for DMFS was statistically significant only after controlling for extent of unknown fluoridation exposure and for fluoride supplements [13].
• The first 50 patients to use a Bard PCA 1, in the Port Lincoln Hospital, South Australia, were studied [14].

Anatomical context of South Australia

• SETTING: Exercise Physiology Laboratory, The Flinders University of South Australia. SUBJECTS: Sixteen male subjects (age 23.1 +/- 4.7 y (s.d.); mass 73.73 +/- 8.9 kg; VO2max 60.2 +/- 6.3 ml. kg-1.min-1; height 180.3 +/- 5.0 cm; body fat 14.6 +/- 5.4%) were selected from a pool of respondents to our advertisements [15].
• Thirteen per cent of all corneas harvested by the Eye Bank of South Australia during 1986 were discarded because storage time in McCarey-Kaufman medium exceeded four days [16].

Associations of South Australia with chemical compounds

• In south Australia these introduced European helicid snails are commonly infected with brachylaimid intermediate larval stages and are considered to be the source of the human infection [17].
• Participants were former workers from the Radium Hill uranium mine, which operated in eastern South Australia from 1952 to 1961 [18].
• A Select Committee of the Parliament of South Australia, considering revisions to legislation governing care of the dying, did not support allowing doctors to assist suicide [19].
• At Flinders University of South Australia, females comprise approximately 25% of academics in the School of Medicine, with 75% of general staff (including research staff without academic status, e.g. research assistants, research officers) being female [20].
• It has become popular with participants in "raves", because it enhances energy, endurance and sexual arousal, together with the widespread belief that MDMA is a safe drug [Byard, R.W., Gilbert, J., James, R., Lokan, R.J., 1998. Amphetamine derivative fatalities in South Australia. Is "ecstasy" the culprit? Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 19, 261-265] [21].

Gene context of South Australia

• OBJECTIVE: To determine the sensitivity of antenatal screening methods for neural tube defects in population-based screening in South Australia in 1986-1991, and whether ultrasound can replace serum alpha-fetoprotein screening in terms of achieving an equivalent level of sensitivity [3].
• SUBJECTS: 1140 randomly-selected Australian adults aged 18-78 y resident in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. MEASUREMENTS: Data on self-reported and measured height and weight as well as measured waist circumference were drawn from the Pilot Survey of the Fitness of Australians database [22].
• A population of Egernia stokesii was surveyed for six seasons on Camel Hill, South Australia. At this site individuals occupied rock crevices for refuges on an isolated rocky outcrop of about 1.5 ha [23].
• Long-term marine litter monitoring in the remote Great Australian Bight, South Australia [24].
• The regulations governing the sale of S3 preparations in South Australia state that they must be sold under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist, but, in the majority of cases, this did not occur [25].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of South Australia

• METHODS--A cohort study involving a sample of miners from the Radium Hill uranium mine in South Australia, which operated from 1952 to 1961 [26].
• Assessment of the Dutch organ-culture system of corneal preservation within the Eye Bank of South Australia [16].
• Incidence of hysterectomy and tubal ligation in public hospitals in south Australia, 1980-82 [27].

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