Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI)

Current issue - September 2008 - Communicable Diseases Intelligence

This issue contains annual reports on meningococcal disease and polio, plus articles on Haemophilus influenzae type b, enteric diseases in returning travellers who visit friends and relatives overseas and an evaluation of the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program, as well as the regular quarterly data reports.

Volume 32 Number 3, September 2008

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1,720 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 121 KB)

• Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2007
  (Jason A Roberts, Kristina A Grant, Aishah Ibrahim, Bruce R Thorley)
  (Also available as a PDF file 115 KB)

Articles

• Trends in invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in Australia, 1995–2005
  (Han Wang, Shelley Deeks, Amy Glasswell, Peter McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 192 KB)

• An evaluation of the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program
  (April R Roberts-Witteveen, Mahomed S Patel, Paul W Roche)
  (Also available as a PDF file 101 KB)

Short reports

• Notifications of enteric diseases in returning travellers who visit friends and relatives overseas: A call for action
  (Vicki G Slinko, Kari AJ Jarvinen, Frank H Beard, Bradley J McCall)
  (Also available as a PDF file 76 KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2008
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 105 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 1st quarter, 2008 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 105 KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 93 KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above and as 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, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, meningococcal surveillance)
    (Also available as a PDF file 192 KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 91 KB)

Administrative

• Correction
  (Also available as a PDF file 39 KB)

• Staff changes
  (Also available as a PDF file 38 KB)

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Editor: Ian McKay
Editorial and Production Staff: Conan Liu, Alison Milton

ISSN 1445-4866 Online

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Disclaimer

Opinions expressed in Communicable Diseases Intelligence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing or the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Data may be subject to revision.