This article {extract} was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 31 No 1 March 2007 and may be downloaded as a full version PDF from the Table of contents page.

Abbreviations used in this report

ABL Australian bat lyssavirus

AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

AFP Acute flaccid paralysis

AGSP Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme

ASPREN Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network

BFV Barmah Forest virus

CDI Communicable Diseases Intelligence

CDNA Communicable Diseases Network Australia

CSF Cerebrospinal fluid

DENV Dengue virus

DoHA Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

DSS Dengue shock syndrome

DTP Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine

HBV Hepatitis B virus

Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b

HIV Human immunodeficiency virus

HPAIH Highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans

HUS Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

ICD10-AM International Classification of Diseases, version 10, Australian Modification

IPD Invasive pneumococcal disease

JEV Japanese encephalitis virus

KUNV Kunjin virus
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LabVISE Laboratory Virology and Serology Reporting Scheme

MIC Minimum inhibitory concentration

MMR Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine

MVE Murray Valley encephalitis virus

NNDSS National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

NCHECR National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research

NEC Not elsewhere classified

NIP National Immunisation Program

NN Not notifiable

RRV Ross River virus

SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome

SLTEC Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli

STI(s) Sexually transmissible infection(s)

TB Tuberculosis

VPD(s) Vaccine preventable disease(s)

VTEC Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli

WHO World Health Organization