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Abbreviations

ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACT - Australian Capital Territory
ACIR - Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
AGSP - Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
AIHW - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Ag - Antigen
APSU - Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit
ASPREN - Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network
ATAGI - Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
BF - Barmah Forest virus
BSE - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDI - Communicable Diseases Intelligence
CDNA - Communicable Diseases Network Australia
CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
CSF - Cerebrospinal fluid
DHAC - Department of Health and Aged Care
DTP - Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (vaccine)
ELISA - Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
GP - General practitioner
GPII - General Practitioner Immunisation Incentives
HBcAg - Hepatitis B core antigen
HBsAg - Hepatitis B surface antigen
HBV - Hepatitis B virus
HCV - Hepatitis C virus
HDV - Hepatitis D virus
HEV - Hepatitis E virus
Hib - Haemophilus influenzae type b
HIV - Human immunodeficiency virus
HUS - Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
ICD10 - International Classification of Diseases Version 10
IFA - Immunofluorescence assay
IgG - Immunoglobulin G
IgM - Immunoglobulin M
JE - Japanese encephalitis
JETACAR - Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance
LabVISE - Laboratory Virology and Serology Surveillance Scheme
LGV - Lymphogranuloma venereum
MMR - Measles-mumps-rubella (vaccine)
MMWR - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
MRLN - Australian Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory Network
MVE - Murray Valley encephalitis
NNDSS - National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
NCHECR - National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
NCIRS - National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (of Vaccine Preventable Diseases)
NEC - Not elsewhere classified
NEPSS - National Enteric Pathogen Surveillance Scheme
NHMRC - National Health and Medical Research Council
NLV - Norwalk-like virus
NMSS - National Mycobacterial Surveillance System
NN - Not notifiable
NSW - New South Wales
NT - Northern Territory
OPV - Oral polio vaccine
PCR - Polymerase chain reaction
PHLN - Public Health Laboratory Network
Qld - Queensland
RR - Ross River virus
SA - South Australia
SD - Statistical Division
SLTEC, VTEC - Shiga-like toxin producing Escherichia coli, verotoxigenic E. coli
STI - Sexually transmitted infection
Tas - Tasmania
TB - Tuberculosis
UK - United Kingdom
VAPP - Vaccine associated paralytic poliomyelitis
Vic - Victoria
WA - Western Australia
WHO - World Health Organization


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001.