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2005 issues

Communicable Diseases Intelligence issues for 2005

This page contains links to all articles published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence during 2005. All issues are available for download as a full pdf document and each article is available in both pdf and html format.

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Volume 29 Numer 4, December 2005 (PDF file 1,398KB)

• Communicable Diseases Network Australia National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee annual report 2004–05
  (Conan Liu, Annette K Broom, Nina Kurucz, Peter I Whelan)
  (Also available as a PDF file 345KB)



• Guidelines for the use and interpretation of nucleic acid detection tests for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Australia: A position paper on behalf of the Public Health Laboratory Network
  (David W Smith, John W Tapsall, Gary Lum)
  (Also available as a PDF file 49KB)



• Surveillance of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli in Australia
  (Barry G Combs, Jane CA Raupach, Martyn D Kirk)
  (Also available as a PDF file 123KB)



• Epidemic viral gastroenteritis in Queensland coincides with the emergence of a new norovirus variant
  (Michael J Lyon, Gang Wei, Greg A Smith)
  (Also available as a PDF file 85KB)



• Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 170 in a tertiary paediatric hospital with person-to-person transmission implicated
  (Noore KM Alam, Paul K Armstrong, Oanh TK Nguyen, Alison M Kesson, Terri M Cripps, Stephen J Corbett)
  (Also available as a PDF file 102KB)



• Investigation of a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Hvittingfoss using a web-based case reporting form
  (Christopher J Oxenford, Andrew P Black, Robert J Bell, Sally A Munnoch, Melissa J Irwin, Rachel N Hanson, Rhonda L Owen, and the Outbreak Investigation Team)
  (Also available as a PDF file 32KB)



• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, July to September 2005
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 35KB)



• Epidemiological features and control of an outbreak of scarlet fever in a Perth primary school
  (Kynan T Feeney, Gary K Dowse, Anthony D Keil, Christine Mackaay, Duncan McLellan )
  (Also available as a PDF file 43KB)



• The epidemiology of kuru in the period 1987 to 1995
  (Michael P Alpers for the Kuru Surveillance Team)
  (Also available as a PDF file 345KB)



• Q fever vaccine uptake in South Australian meat processors prior to the introduction of the National Q Fever Management Program
  (Adriana Milazzo, Kathryn B Featherstone, Robert G Hall)
  (Also available as a PDF file 42KB)



• Communicable and vaccine-preventable conditions under surveillance by the APSU: 2004 update
  (Yvonne Zurynski, Paula Cronin, Elizabeth J Elliott)
  (Also available as a PDF file 82KB)



• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, 1 July to 30 September 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 16KB)



• Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2005
  (Glenda Lawrence, Ian Boyd)
  (Also available as a PDF file 42KB)




• Communicable diseases surveillance

  • Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2005 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 133KB)
  
  
  
  • Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
    Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
    Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
    Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
    (Also available as one PDF file 103KB)
  
  
  
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance, meningococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    (Also available as a PDF file 198KB)
  
  
  
• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 31KB)



• CDI subject index, 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 35KB)



• CDI author index, 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 16KB)



• CDI reviewers 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 12KB)

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Editor: John Walker
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 29 Number 3, September 2005 (PDF file 1,274KB)

• An evaluation of the Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network
  (Hazel J Clothier, James E Fielding, Heath A Kelly)
  (Also available as a PDF file 244KB)

• Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2004
  (Glenda L Lawrence, Ian Boyd, Peter B McIntyre, David Issacs)
  (Also available as a PDF file 246KB)

• Annual report of the Australia National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2004
  (Vicki Stambos, Kerri Anne Brussen, Bruce R Thorley)
  (Also available as a PDF file 46KB)

• Creutzfeld-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to 31 December 2004
  (Genevieve M Klug, Alison Boyd, Victoria Lewis, Madga Kvasnicka, James S Lee, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins)
  (Also available as a PDF file 36KB)

• A comparison of a rapid test for influenza with laboratory-based diagnosis in a paediatric population
  (Robert Alexander, Aeron C Hurt, David Lamb, Fee Yee Wong, Alan W Hampson, Ian G Barr)
  (Also available as a PDF file 86KB)

• SARS and biothreat preparedness – a survey of ACT general practitioners
  (Ana Herceg, Alison Greysen, Charles Guest, Richard Bialkowski)
  (Also available as a PDF file 47KB)

• Influenza and pneumococcal vaccine coverage among a random sample of hospitalised persons aged 65 years or more, Victoria
  (Ross M Andrews, Susan A Skull, Graham B Byrnes, Donald A campbell, Joy L Turner, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 143KB)

• Estimates of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in the Northern Territory
  (Nicholas Wood, Josephine Backhouse, Heather F Gidding, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Gary Lum, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 27KB)

• The incidence of Ross River virus disease infection in South Australia, 1992 to 2003
  (Christopher W Horwood, Peng Bi)
  (Also available as a PDF file 140KB)

• Aedes (Stegomia) albopictus – a dengue threat for southern Australia?
  (Richard C Russell, Craig R Williams, Robert W Sutherst, Scott A Richie)
  (Also available as a PDF file 72KB)

• Genetic diversity of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti in Australia and implications for future surveillance and mainland incursion monitoring
  (Nigel W Beebe, Peter I Whelan, Andrew van den Hurk, Scott A Richie, Robert D Cooper)
  (Also available as a PDF file 139KB)

• Septicaemia secondary to Vibrio vulnificus cellulitis
  (Peter R Lewis, Lucy Cook, Janet Drewitt-Smith, Adam D McEwen, Linda V Granger)
  (Also available as a PDF file 32KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, April to June 2005
  (The OzfoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 85KB)

• Meningococcal disease – probable transmission during an international flight
  (Bridget A O'Connor, Kerry G Chant, Enzo Binotto, Christine A Maidment, Patrick Maywood, Jeremy M McAnulty)
  (Also available as a PDF file 30KB)

• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia: 1 April to 30 June 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 17KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2005 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 36KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 154KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
    Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
    Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
    Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
  
  
  
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance, meningococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    (Also available as a PDF file 162KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 30KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 29 Number 2, June 2005 (PDF file 1,448KB)

• Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2004
  (Janet Li, Alan Hampson, Paul Roche, Keflemariam Yohannes, Jenean Spencer)
  (Also available as a PDF file 363KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2004
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 103KB)

• Evaluation of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
  (Gina Samaan, Paul Roche, Jane Grieg, John Tapsall, et al)
  (Also available as a PDF file 237KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2004
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 140KB)

• Meningococcal vaccine failure in conjunction with an unusual meningococcal cluster in southern Tasmania
  (Kelly Shaw, Alistair McGregor, Roscoe Taylor, Jan Williamson, Avner Misrachi, David Coleman, Lynne Andrewartha)
  (Also available as a PDF file 93KB)

• Reported foodborne illness and gastroenteritis in Australia: annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2004
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 616KB)

• A cluster of cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in north Queensland associated with a novel Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli
  (Anna Morgan, John Piispanen, Jan Humpreys, Denise Murphy)
  (Also available as a PDF file 80KB)

• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, January to March 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 58KB)

• Communicable Diseases Network Australia: Guidelines for the control of pertussis in Australia (November 1997)
  (The OzfoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 43KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, January to March 2005
  (The OzfoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 81KB)

• Defining the risk of human exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus through potential non-bat animal infection
  (Bradley McCall, Hume Field, Greg Smith, Greg Storie, Bruce Harrower)
  (Also available as a PDF file 87KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  
  • Highlights for 4th quarter, 2004 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, Zoonoses)
    (Also available as a PDF file 87KB)
  
  
  
  • Tables PDF file 132KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
    Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
    Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
    Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
  
  
  
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, meningococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    (Also available as a PDF file 144KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 76KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 29 Number 1, March 2005 (PDF file 1,670KB)

• Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2003: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (Megge Miller, Paul Roche, Keflemariam Yohannes, Jenean Spencer, Mark Bartlett, Julia Brotherton, et al)
  (Also available as a PDF file 952KB)

• Composition of Australian influenza vaccine for the 2005 season
  (Also available as a PDF file 37KB)

• Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region, 2003
  (The WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobials Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 68KB)

• Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Program in Australia, July 2003 to June 2004
  (Annette K Broome, Peter I Whelan)
  (Also available as a PDF file 99KB)

• Influenza surveillance in Victoria, 2004
  (Joy Turner, Hazel Clothier, Matthew Kaye, Heath Kelly)
  (Also available as a PDF file 224KB)

• A preventable illness? Purulent pericarditis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae complicated by haemolytic uraemic syndrome in an infant
  (Joanna Yong, Bob Fonseca, Emma Best, Tamsin Holland, Maria Craig)
  (Also available as a PDF file 120KB)

• An outbreak of measles in Adelaide
  (James Fielding)
  (Also available as a PDF file 79KB)

• A cluster of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type U307 associated with a restaurant
  (Helen Quinn, Russell Stafford, Robert Bell, Greg Blumke, Margaret Young)
  (Also available as a PDF file 52KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, October to December 2004
  (The OzfoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 70KB)

• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, October to December 2004
  (Also available as a PDF file 45KB)

• Surveillance systems reported in Communicable Diseases Intelligence in 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 65KB)

• CDI instructions for authors, 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 65KB)

• National Serology Reference Laboratory, Australia: 22nd NRL Workshop on Serology
  (Also available as a PDF file 35KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  
  • Highlights for 4th quarter, 2004 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, LabVISE)
    (Also available as a PDF file 75KB)
  
  
  
  • Tables PDF file 117KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
    Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
    Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
    Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
  
  
  
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance, Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    (Also available as a PDF file 150KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 60KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado

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