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Bloodstream infection (BSI) rates, pathogens and mortality are compared among Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults in central Australia. Indigenous adults living in central Australia have experienced BSI rates that are among the highest in the world and these are associated with a high risk of death and are a consequence of the poor socioeconomic circumstances of Indigenous people.

An analysis of inhospital deaths of adults due to infection during a medical or renal admission to Alice Spring Hospital (ASH) from 2000 to 2005 is conducted to compare the infection-related mortality rates and pathogens isolated for Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients. It is concluded that as compared to the non-Indigenous, Indigenous patients at ASH are at eleven times more risk to die with infectious disease and exposes the current socioeconomic disadvantage suffered by the Indigenous Australians.

Strongyloides stercoralisis a parasitic roundworm causing chronic infection that is endemic in Southeast Asia. Vietnam veterans are considered to be at high risk of Strongyloidesinfection. The prevalence of persistent infection in this group is unknown. This study aimed to establish the seropositivity rate of Strongyloides antibodies in South Australian Vietnam veterans and to identify the most reported symptoms within the seropositive group.