This issue is available as a full PDF file (748KB) or by individual articles below.

Contents

Annual reports

• Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2006
  (Jason Roberts, Kerri Anne Brussen, Aishah Ibrahim, Bruce Thorley)
  (Also available as a PDF file 212KB)



• Annual report on surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2006
  (Glenda L Lawrence, Padmasiri E Aratchige, Ian Boyd, Peter B McIntyre, Michael S Gold)
  (Also available as a PDF file 296KB)

Articles

• How reliable are Australian Childhood Immunisation Register coverage estimates for Indigenous children? An assessment of data quality and coverage
  (Claudia Rank, Robert I Menzies)
  (Also available as a PDF file 186KB)



• Prevalence of MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital inpatients, 2005: Report from the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance
  (Graeme R Nimmo, Julie C Pearson, Peter J Collignon, Keryn J Christiansen, Geoffrey W Coombs, Jan M Bell, Mary­Louise McLaws and the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance)
  (Also available as a PDF file 249KB)



• Pneumonia cluster in a boarding school – implications for influenza control
  (Patrick Cashman, Peter Massey, David Durrheim, Fakhrul Islam, Tony Merritt, Keith Eastwood)
  (Also available as a PDF file 169KB)

Short reports

• Importation of wild poliovirus into Australia, July 2007
  (Bruce Thorley, Heath Kelly, Jason Roberts)
  (Also available as a PDF file 76KB)



• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome associated with a family cluster of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli
  (Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys, Sian E Ashton, Denise M Murphy)
  (Also available as a PDF file 120KB)



• Current developments in varicella-zoster virus disease prevention
  (Anita E Heywood, Kristine K Macartney, C Raina MacIntyre, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 174KB)



• Exercise Paton: A simulation exercise to test New South Wales emergency departments’ response to pandemic influenza
  (Adam T Craig, Paul K Armstrong)
  (Also available as a PDF file 185KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2007
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 181KB)




Communicable diseases surveillance

• Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2007
  (Also available as a PDF file 144KB)
  Erratum published in Commun Dis Intell 2007;31:448



• Tables (PDF file 215KB)


Tables in HTML files
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, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
  (Also available as a PDF file 243KB)



• Overseas brief
  (Also available as a PDF file 104KB)

Other reports

• New facility to help fight emerging infectious diseases
  (Also available as a PDF file 55KB)

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Editor: Krissa O'Neil
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado

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