Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia annual report, 2007 and 2008

There was an error in the recent Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia annual report, 2007 and 2008 published in the June issue of CDI. The data in Figure 4 was a repeat of that in Figure 5, and the correct data for Figure 4 was not published (Commun Dis Intell 2012;36(2):E155). The correct Figure is displayed below.

Figure 4: Notification rate for invasive pneumococcal disease, Australia, 2002 to 2008, by age group

Data for Figure 4.

Age group	2002-2004 average	2005	2006	2007	2008
<2	99.2	33.4	24.3	27.5	29.3
2 to 4	29.3	17.2	9.1	12.2	13.5
5 to 49	5.1	4.2	3.6	3.6	3.6
50 to 64	9.7	9.3	7.7	7.3	8.7
≥ 65	25.2	19.7	18.4	17.2	19.0

Communicable disease surveillance – Tables

For the issues of CDI published between June 2011 and September 2012 the data for salmonellosis; shigellosis and STEC/VTEC was incorrect in Table 3: Notification rates of diseases, by state or territory.

Please refer to the published issues on the Communicable Diseases Intelligence web site for the corrected data.

In this section

• Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 36 No 4 - December 2012
• Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 36 Number 4, pdf files