Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the following people for their contribution to this report.

Alison Milton and Katrina Choi, Office of Health Protection, Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Capital Territory

Mohammad Habib and Kate Ward, NSW Health Department

Rebecca Hundy, ACT Health

Carolien Giele and Gary Dowse, Western Australia Department of Health

Joy Copland, Department of Health, South Australia

David Coleman, Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services

Russell Stafford, Queensland Health

Author details

Coordinating author: Conan Liu

Data management: Stefan Stirzaker

Mapping: Dougald Knuckey

Bloodborne diseases: Kate Robinson

Gastrointestinal diseases: Katrina Knope

Quarantinable diseases: Gerard Fitzsimmons, Jennifer Wall, Katrina Knope

Sexually transmissible infections: Kate Robinson

Vaccine preventable diseases: Katrina Roper, Nicolee Martin, Anna Reynolds, Rhonda Owen, Aurysia Hii, Christina Barry

Vectorborne diseases: Phil Wright, Gerard Fitzsimmons

Zoonoses: Gerard Fitzsimmons, Lance Sanders

Other bacterial infections: Christina Barry, James Fielding

With contributions from:

National organisations

Communicable Diseases Network Australia and subcommittees

Australian Childhood Immunisation Register

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme

Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme

Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network

Australian Quarantine Inspection Service

National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases

National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance Scheme

OzFoodNet Working Group

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza

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State and territory health departments

Communicable Diseases Control Unit, ACT Health, Australian Capital Territory

Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control Unit, NSW Health Department, New South Wales

Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services, Northern Territory

Communicable Diseases Unit, Queensland Health, Queensland

Communicable Disease Control Branch, South Australian Department of Health, South Australia

Communicable Diseases Prevention Unit, Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmania

Communicable Diseases Section, Department of Human Services, Victoria

Communicable Diseases Control Directorate, Department of Health, Western Australia

Corresponding author: Mr Conan Liu, Systems and Coordination Section, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, GPO Box 4898, MDP 14, CANBERRA, ACT 2601. Telephone: +61 2 6289 2712. Facsimile: +61 2 6289 2600. Email: conan.liu AT health.gov.au