End products are returned in all or in part to the country of the supplier of plasma. The costs involved in establishing a contract fractionation program are substantially less than those involved in establishing and operating a fractionation plant. In the absence of a local fractionation plant, products originating from plasma collected locally can be made available using contract fractionatio...

In the reverse supply chain inventory theory, inventory models are concerned with the demand of reusable parts, stock replenishment, ordering cycle, delivery lead time, number of disassembled products, ordering costs. The particularity of these models consists in the occurrence of high uncertainties of the quantity and quality of the returned products and resulting parts. To overcome the proble...

A 30-year-old female presented to a tertiary hospital with two weeks of fevers and left upper quadrant abdominal pain after returning from the Gili Islands, Indonesia. She was immunised against hepatitis B, hepatitis A, and typhoid. She did not take malaria prophylaxis and recalls being bitten by insects. Laboratory investigations revealed an elevated C-reactive protein level (158 mg/L), mild t...

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Pulmonary infections in the returned traveller are a common presentation. A wide variety of infections may present with pulmonary symptoms. It is important for clinicians to differentiate the cause of these symptoms. The risk of contracting certain travel-related pulmonary diseases depends on travel destination, length of stay, activities undertaken and co-morbidities. Some pathogens are found ...

Diphtheria is rarely reported in Australia. A case of cutaneous diphtheria was reported to the South Australian Department for Health and Ageing in April 2013 in an Australian-born 18-year-old female following travel in India. The case presented with a skin ulcer on her toe. Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated from a swab of the lesion. The case was treated with antibiotics. The ...