Contents

This issue is available as a full PDF file (5864 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Australia’s notifiable disease status, 2008: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (NNDSS Annual Report Writing Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 3413 KB)

• Arboviral diseases and malaria in Australia, 2008–09: Annual report of the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee
  (Gerard J Fitzsimmons, Phil Wright, Cheryl A Johansen, Peter I Whelan and the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee)
  (Also available as a PDF file 622 KB)

• Immunisation coverage annual report, 2008
  (Brynley P Hull, Deepika Mahajan, Aditi Dey, Rob I Menzies, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 637 KB)

• Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2009
  (Deepika Mahajan, Ilnaz Roomiani, Michael S Gold, Glenda L Lawrence, Peter B McIntyre, Rob I Menzie)
  (Also available as a PDF file 395 KB)

• Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2009
  (Jason A Roberts, Linda Hobday, Sophie Polychronopoulos, Aishah Ibrahim, Bruce R Thorley)
  (Also available as a PDF file 178 KB)

• Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit annual report, 2008 and 2009
  (Yvonne Zurynski, Elizabeth Davey, Elizabeth J Elliott)
  (Also available as a PDF file 119 KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2009
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 157 KB)

Peer-reviewed articles

• Antiviral distribution data – a potential syndromic surveillance system to assist pandemic health service operational planning
  (Andrew SC Way, David N Durrheim, Tony Merritt, Hassan Vally)
  (Also available as a PDF file 171 KB)

• Evaluating the utility of Emergency Department syndromic surveillance for a regional public health service
  (Kirsty G Hope, Tony D Merritt, David N Durrheim, Peter D Massey, Julie K Kohlhagen, Kerry W Todd, Catherine A D’Este)
  (Also available as a PDF file 146 KB)

• A new national chlamydia sentinel surveillance system in Australia: Evaluation of the first stage of implementation
  (Rebecca J Guy, Fabian Kong, Jane Goller, Neil Franklin, Isabel Bergeri, Wayne Dimech, Nicole Reilly, Elizabeth Sullivan, James Ward, John M Kaldor, Margaret Hellard, Basil Donovan, on behalf of the ACCESS collaboration)
  (Also available as a PDF file 161 KB)

• An outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 170 associated with consumption of a dessert containing raw egg
  (Anna Reynolds, Cameron RM Moffatt, Amalie Dyda, Rebecca L Hundy, Andrew L Kaye, Radomir Krsteski, Simon Rockliff, Riemke Kampen, Paul M Kelly, Eddie D O’Brien)
  (Also available as a PDF file 109 KB)

• Potential exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus in South East Queensland: what has changed in 12 years?
  (Megan K Young, Bradley J McCall)
  (Also available as a PDF file 149 KB)

Short reports

• Zoonotic tuberculosis: on the decline
  (Paul R Ingram, Peter Bremner, Tim J Inglis, Ronan J Murray, Debbie V Cousins)
  (Also available as a PDF file 132 KB)

• Penicillin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis bacteraemia, Kimberley region, March 2010
  (Shivanti D Abeysuriya, David J Speers, Jackie Gardiner, Ronan J Murray)
  (Also available as a PDF file 82 KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2010
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 166 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Tables (PDF file 108 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, gonococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance)
    (Also available as a PDF file 198 KB)

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Editor: Ian McKay
Editorial and Production Staff: Alison Milton, Mark Power, Colette O’Neill

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.