Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI)
Current issue - September 2007 - Communicable Diseases Intelligence
This issue contains annual reports on poliovirus and adverse events following immunisation, plus articles on Staphylococcus aureus, pneumonia, Escherichia coli and varicella-zoster, as well as the regular quarterly data reports.
Communicable Diseases Australia
Volume 31 Number 3, September 2007
This issue is available as a full PDF file (748KB) or by individual articles below.
Contents
Annual reports
- Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2006
(Jason Roberts, Kerri Anne Brussen, Aishah Ibrahim, Bruce Thorley)
(Also available as a PDF file 212KB) - Annual report on surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2006
(Glenda L Lawrence, Padmasiri E Aratchige, Ian Boyd, Peter B McIntyre, Michael S Gold)
(Also available as a PDF file 296KB)
Articles
- How reliable are Australian Childhood Immunisation Register coverage estimates for Indigenous children? An assessment of data quality and coverage
(Claudia Rank, Robert I Menzies)
(Also available as a PDF file 186KB) - Prevalence of MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital inpatients, 2005: Report from the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance
(Graeme R Nimmo, Julie C Pearson, Peter J Collignon, Keryn J Christiansen, Geoffrey W Coombs, Jan M Bell, MaryLouise McLaws and the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance)
(Also available as a PDF file 249KB) - Pneumonia cluster in a boarding school – implications for influenza control
(Patrick Cashman, Peter Massey, David Durrheim, Fakhrul Islam, Tony Merritt, Keith Eastwood)
(Also available as a PDF file 169KB)
Short reports
- Importation of wild poliovirus into Australia, July 2007
(Bruce Thorley, Heath Kelly, Jason Roberts)
(Also available as a PDF file 76KB) - Haemolytic uraemic syndrome associated with a family cluster of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli
(Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys, Sian E Ashton, Denise M Murphy)
(Also available as a PDF file 120KB) - Current developments in varicella-zoster virus disease prevention
(Anita E Heywood, Kristine K Macartney, C Raina MacIntyre, Peter B McIntyre)
(Also available as a PDF file 174KB) - Exercise Paton: A simulation exercise to test New South Wales emergency departments’ response to pandemic influenza
(Adam T Craig, Paul K Armstrong)
(Also available as a PDF file 185KB)
Quarterly reports
- OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2007
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 181KB) - Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2007
(Also available as a PDF file 144KB) - Tables (PDF file 215KB)
- Additional reports
(Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
(Also available as a PDF file 243KB) - Overseas brief
(Also available as a PDF file 104KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance
Tables in HTML files
Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
Other reports
- New facility to help fight emerging infectious diseases
(Also available as a PDF file 55KB)
Editor: Krissa O'Neil
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado
Volume 31 Supplement - June 2007
Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 2003 to 2005
Editor: Krissa O'Neil
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton
Volume 31 Number 2, June 2007
This issue is available as a full PDF file (985 KB) or by individual articles below.
Contents
Annual reports
- Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2006
(Kathleen O'Brien, Ian G Barr )
(Also available as a PDF file 159 KB)
- Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2006
(The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
(Also available as a PDF file 94 KB)
- Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2006
(The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme) (Also available as a PDF file 90 KB)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to March 2007
(Genevieve M Klug, Alison Boyd, Victoria Lewis, Samantha L Douglass, Helene Roberts, Rebecca Argent, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins)
(Also available as a PDF file 42 KB)
Articles
- Compliance with three simultaneous vaccinations due at the one visit at 12 months of age in Australia
(Brynley P Hull, Peter B McIntyre)
(Also available as a PDF file 123 KB)
- Bordetella pertussis PCR positivity, following onset of illness in children under 5 years of age
(Cheryn M Palmer, Brad McCall, Kari Jarvinen, Michael D Nissen)
(Also available as a PDF file 98 KB)
- Pertussis epidemiology in Australia over the decade 1995–2005 – trends by region and age group
(Helen E Quinn, Peter B McIntyre)
(Also available as a PDF file 268KB)
- Epidemiology of Leptospira weilii serovar Topaz infections in Australia
(Andrew T Slack, Meegan L Symonds, Michael F Dohnt, Bruce G Corney, Lee D Smythe)
(Also available as a PDF file 141 KB)
- Q fever cases in the Northern Territory of Australia from 1991 to 2006
(Anna Ralph, Peter Markey, Rosalie Schultz)
(Also available as a PDF file 111 KB)
Short reports
- Reduction in invasive meningococcal disease in Queensland: A success for immunisation
(Vicki G Slinko, Amy Sweeny)
(Also available as a PDF file 161 KB)
- Meningococcal septicaemia and a case of clinically mild illness
(Danielle M Esler, Peter R Lewis)
(Also available as a PDF file 74KB)
Quarterly reports
- OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2007
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 110 KB)
- Communicable Diseases Surveillance
- Highlights for 1st quarter, 2006
(gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
(Also available as a PDF file 89 KB)
- Tables (PDF file 112 KB)
The tables are available as a full PDF file above.
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)
(Also available as a PDF file 121 KB)
- Highlights for 1st quarter, 2006
(gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
- Overseas briefs
(Also available as a PDF file 85 KB)
Other reports
- A celebration of the life of Professor Aileen Plant
(Also available as a PDF file 71 KB)
- Composition of the Australian Influenza Vaccine for the 2007 season
(Also available as a PDF file 71 KB)
- National Serology Reference Laboratory, Australia workshop
(Also available as a PDF file 57 KB)
Editor: Krissa O'Neil
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton
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.
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