Publications

The MyMedicare Program Guidelines (the guidelines) provide clear guidance for practices, General Practitioners (GPs) and patients who wish to voluntarily register with the MyMedicare Program (the program). The guidelines also set out the program’s requirements, benefits and dispute processes.

This document covers Australian tick-borne diseases

This document provides evidence-based guidance for clinicians in community and hospital settings, as well as providing a reference source on DSCATT topics. This Guidance Note covers overseas-acquired Lyme disease.

This document introduces the major concepts, issues and diseases and illnesses related to ticks, globally and in Australia.

This document covers the evidence on the currently recognised severe tick-induced allergies.

This document covers prevention and management of tick bites for people living in Australia.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Queensland Tick Typhus.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Q Fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Flinders Island spotted fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Australian spotted fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease.

Strategies to prevent tick bites in people/pets.

Symptoms, features and treatment of tick anaphylaxis.

Symptoms, causes, risk factors and prevention of tick paralysis.

Tick biology and tick-borne diseases.

Strategies to administer first aid for tick bites.

This document summarises preliminary findings from a study to identify possible biomarkers for Debilitating Symptom Complex Attributed to Ticks (DSCATT). The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) completed this project in July 2021.

This fact sheet provides information on Q fever in Australia.

This document outlines the evidence base underpinning the debilitating symptom complexes attributed to ticks clinical pathway.

This document supports clinicians to make diagnoses and referrals for patients presenting with chronic symptoms attributed to an unknown illness.

Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee final report: Inquiry into the growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness for many Australian patients