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Table of Contents - Volume 26, 2002

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Volume 26 Number 4 - December 2002 (PDF file 747KB)

• Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2001
  (Paul Roche, Vicki Krause)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 136KB)

• Invasive pneumococcal disease in North Queensland, 2001
  (Susan Hills, Jeffrey Hanna, Denise Murphy)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 53KB)

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2001
  (Megge Miller, Ming Lin, Jenean Spencer and the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 64KB)

• Report of the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program, 2001/2002
  (Carl Kirkwood, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Ruth Clark, Paul Masendycz, Ruth Bishop, Graeme Barnes)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 64KB)

• Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2001
  (The WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 56KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, April to June 2002
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 78KB)

• Editorial: Norwalk-like virus - issues for surveillance
  (Paul Roche, John Marshall, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 41KB)

• Norwalk-like virus outbreak in Canberra: implications for infection control in aged care facilities
  (Megge Miller, Louise Carter, Katrina Scott, Geoff Millard, Barry Lynch, Charles Guest)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 78KB)

• An outbreak of infections with a new Salmonella phage type linked to a symptomatic food handler
  (Rebecca Hundy, Scott Cameron)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 75KB)

• A statewide outbreak of Salmonella Bovismorbificans phage type 32 infection in Queensland
  (Russell Stafford, Bradley McCall, Annette Neill, Dallas Leon, Gregory J Dorricott, Christopher D Towner, Gino R Micalizzi)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 74KB)

• Outbreak of staphylococcal enterotoxin food poisoning
  (Noel Cowell, Mary Hansen, Andrew Langley, Trudy Graham, John Bates)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 28KB)

• Communicable Diseases Australia Website - new web address
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Surveillance of viral pathogens in Australia - varicella-zoster virus
  (Paul Roche, Charlie Blumer, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as (PDF file 80KB)

• Using the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register to track the transition from whole-cell to acellular pertussis vaccines
  (Siranda Torvaldsen, Brynley Hull, Peter B McIntyre)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 108KB)

• Infection control and public health aspects of a case of pertussis infection in a maternity health care worker
  (Bradley McCall, Martyn Tilse, Beth Burt, Peter Watt, Mary Barnett, Joseph McCormack)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 62KB)

• An unusual reaction to rabies vaccine
  (Jules W Maussen, Nikki Blackwell, Robert Norton)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 53KB)

• A measles outbreak in the Whitsundays, Queensland: the shape of things to come?
  (Jeffrey Hanna, Dorothy Symons, Michael Lyon)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 87KB)

• Refining the public health response to primary meningococcal conjunctivitis
  (Roslyn Poulos, Elizabeth Smedley, Mark Ferson, Srinivas Bolisetty, John Tapsall)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 81KB)

• A focal, rapidly-controlled outbreak of dengue fever in two suburbs in Townsville, North Queensland, 2001 (Susan Hills, John Piispanen, Jan Humphreys, Peter Foley)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 117KB)

• An outbreak of Barmah Forest virus disease in Victoria
  (Jonathon Passmore, Kerry Ann O'Grady, Rodney Moran, Elwyn Wishart)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 118KB)

• The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  (Gerard Fitzsimmons, Krystian Sadkowsky)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 79KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2002 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal illness, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other bacterial infections, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 115KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE) (PDF file 80KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions & NNDSS notifications
    notification rates
    LabVISE
    LabVISE continued
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, Gonococcal surveillance, Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, HIV and AIDS surveillance, Childhood immunisation coverage, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 116KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 76KB)

• CDI reviewers, 2002
  - Also available as a (PDF file 51KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Ming Lin, Charlie Blumer, Megge Miller, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 26 Number 3 - September 2002 (PDF file 1101KB)

• Editorial: Review of the Laboratory Virology and Serology Reporting Scheme
  (Tim JJ Inglis)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 49KB)

• The Laboratory Virology and Serology Reporting Scheme, 1991 to 2000.
  (Paul Roche, Linda Halliday, Eddie O'Brien, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 416KB)

• Enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: the OzFoodNet annual report, 2001
  (Rosie Ashbolt, Rod Givney, Joy Gregory, Gillian Hall, Rebecca Hundy, Martyn Kirk, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 263KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2001
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 136KB)

• Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory and summary of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, 2001
  (Bruce Thorley, Kerri Anne Brussen, Vicki Stambos, Lilly Yuen, Heath Kelly)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 123KB)

• Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme in Australia, 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2002
  (Annette Broom, Peter Whelan, Joe Azoulas, Dominic Dwyer, Linda Hueston, John Mackenzie, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 62KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, January to March 2002
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 93KB)

• Editorial: Diarrhoea associated with consumption of escolar (rudderfish)
  (Craig Shadbolt, Martyn Kirk, Paul Roche)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 88KB)

• Outbreaks of diarrhoea associated with butterfish in Victoria
  (Joy Gregory)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 61KB)

• Illness associated with rudderfish/escolar in South Australia
  (Rodney C Givney)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 52KB)

• An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness associated with the consumption of escolar fish
  (Keflemariam Yohannes, Craig Dalton, Linda Halliday, Leanne Unicomb, Martyn Kirk)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 119KB)

• Gastroenteritis outbreak in a sporting team linked to barbecued chicken
  (Paul Armstrong, David Peacock, Scott Cameron)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 63KB)

• Outbreak of Cryptosporidium linked to drinking unpasteurised milk
  (Catherine Harper, Noel Cowell, Brad Adams, Andrew Langley, Tracey Wohlsen)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 50KB)

• Observational methods in epidemiologic assessment of vaccine effectiveness
  (Siranda Torvaldsen, Peter McIntyre)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 122KB)

• Reduction in the hepatitis B related burden of disease - measuring the success of universal immunisation programs (Alison Williams)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 85KB)

• A review of national legionellosis surveillance in Australia, 1991 to 2000
  (Janet Li, Eddie O'Brien, Charles Guest)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 120KB)

• Intergovernmental Committee on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases
  - Also available as a (PDF file 31KB)

• Communicable diseases - a fight we can win? Conference
  - Also available as a (PDF file 38KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2002 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal illness, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other bacterial infections, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 119KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN)( PDF file 167KB)
    

    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions & NNDSS notifications
    notification rates
    LabVISE
    ASPREN
    

  • Additional reports (Gonococcal surveillance, HIV/AIDS surveillance, Childhood immunisation coverage, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 121KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 90KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Ming Lin, Charlie Blumer, Megge Miller, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 26 Number 2 - June 2002 (PDF file 1365KB)

• Editorial: Polio eradication in Australia and the world
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 96KB)

• Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2000: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (Ming Lin, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Alison Milton, Phil Wright, David Witteveen, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 623KB)

• Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2001
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Alan Hampson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 158KB)

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2000
  (Ming Lin, Jenean Spencer, Paul Roche, Moira McKinnon and the National TB Advisory Committee for the Communicable Diseases)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 201KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2000: Report of the Australian Mycobacterium Laboratory Reference Network
  (Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 125KB)

• Report on the Second Technical Advisory Group Meeting to Stop TB in the Western Pacific Region, Beijing, China 4-6 June 2001
  (Angela Merianos)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 137KB)

• Towards global polio eradication: Australia's commitment to the global eradication of poliovirus by 2005
  - Also available as a (PDF file 56KB)

• National Strategic Plan for TB Control in Australia Beyond 2000
  - Also available as a (PDF file 72KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2001
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 116KB)

• OzFoodNet: Quarterly report, October to December 2001
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 113KB)

• Australia declared polio free
  (Rennie D'Souza, Margery Kennett, Charles Watson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 121KB)

• A large, prolonged outbreak of human calicivirus infection linked to an aged-care facility
  (Adriana Milazzo, Ingrid Tribe, Rod Ratcliff, Chris Doherty, Geoff Higgins, Rod Givney)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 102KB)

• Evaluation of the Australian CJD Surveillance System
  (Monica Robotin)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 132KB)

• A measles outbreak among young adults in Victoria, February 2001
  (Natasha Davidson, Ross Andrews, Michaela Riddell, Jennie Leydon, Pauline Lynch)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 112KB)

• Melioidosis in the Torres Strait Islands of Far North Queensland
  (Antony Faa, Peter Holt)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 123KB)

• The National Public Health Partnership
  - Also available as a (PDF file 27KB)

• Outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 135a following consumption of raw egg
  (Robert Hall)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 94KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 1st quarter, 2002 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal illness, sexually transmitted infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, other bacterial infections, other non-notifiable diseases, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 115KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN) (PDF file 80KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions & NNDSS notifications
    notification rates
    LabVISE
    ASPREN
    
  • Additional reports (Rotavirus surveillance, HIV/AIDS surveillance, Childhood immunisation coverage, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 116KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 76KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Ming Lin, Charlie Blumer, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 26 Supplement - May 2002

• Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 1999 to 2000

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This report was written at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS).
Published by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

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Volume 26 Number 1 - 1st Quarter 2002 (PDF file 1139KB)

• Editorial: Towards improving influenza surveillance in Australia
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Angela Merianos)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 171KB)

• Fragmentation of influenza surveillance in Australia
  (Caroline Watts, Heath Kelly)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 208KB)

• Outcomes from the first two years of the Australian hepatitis C surveillance strategy
  - Also available as a (PDF file 223KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, July to September 2001 (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 225KB)

• Australia's imported food program - a valuable source of information on micro-organisms in foods
  (Ann Bull, Scott Crerar, Mary Beers)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 242KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium PT 135 gastroenteritis associated with a minimally cooked dessert containing raw eggs
  (Mohinder Sarna, Gary Dowse, Greg Evans, Charles Guest)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 265KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium PT 135 infection linked to the consumption of raw eggs in an aged care facility
  (Ingrid Tribe, David Cowell, Peter Cameron, Scott Cameron)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 184KB)

• Reappearance of human cases due to Murray Valley encephalitis virus and Kunjin virus in Central Australia after an absence of 26 years
  (Alex Brown, Srinivas Bolisetty, Peter Whelan, David Smith, Gavin Wheaton)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 219KB)

• Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in North Queensland, 1996 to 1999
  (Dave Harley, Jeffrey Hanna, Susan Hills, John Bates, Helen Smith)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 265KB)

• Rising prevalence of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in heterosexual patients at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre, 1994 to 2000
  (Basil Donovan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 243KB)

• Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 115KB)

• Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2002
  - Also available as a (PDF file 228KB)

• Composition of Australian influenza vaccine for the 2002 season
  - Also available as a (PDF file 78KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for the 4th quarter 2001 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal illness, sexually transmitted infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, other bacterial infections, Other non-notifiable diseases, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 297KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN) (PDF file 153KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions and NNDSS notifications notification rates
    LabVISE,
    APSREN
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, Australian encephalitis: Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme, HIV/AIDS surveillance, Childhood immunisation coverage)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 241KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 208KB)

• Communicable Diseases Network Australia
  - Also available as a (PDF file 127KB)

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Editor: Angela Merianos
Editorial and Production Staff: Alison Milton, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Ming Lin, Patricia Hurtado