Volume 31 Number 4, December 2007

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1,036 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Monitoring the incidence and causes of diseases potentially transmitted by food in Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet Network, 2006
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 215 KB)

• Surveillance report for active trachoma, 2006: National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit
  (Betty Tellis, Jill E Keeffe, Hugh R Taylor)
  (Also available as a PDF file 385 KB)

• Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program: Annual report, 2006–07
  (Carl D Kirkwood, David Cannan, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Ruth F Bishop, Graeme L Barnes and the National Rotavirus Surveillance Group) (Also available as a PDF file 110 KB)

• Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2007
  (Glenda L Lawrence, Padmasiri E Aratchige, Richard Hill)
  (Also available as a PDF file 44 KB)

Articles

• The epidemiology of pertussis in the Australian Capital Territory, 1999 to 2005—epidemics of testing, disease or false positives?
  (Clare E Wylks, Ben Ewald, Charles Guest)
  (Also available as a PDF file 104 KB)

• Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in Enterococcus isolates in Australia, 2005
  (Keryn J Christiansen, John D Turnidge, Jan M Bell, Narelle M George, Julie C Pearson)
  (Also available as a PDF file 89 KB)

• Epidemiology and outcomes for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Australian hospitals, 2005–06
  (John D Turnidge, Graeme R Nimmo, Julie Pearson, Thomas Gottlieb, Peter J Collignon and the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance)
  (Also available as a PDF file 97 KB)

Short reports

• Position statement on interferon-γ release immunoassays in the detection of latent tuberculosis infection, October 2007
  (National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
  (Also available as a PDF file 29 KB)

• National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: Information Paper (October 2007
  (National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
  (Also available as a PDF file 37 KB)

• Observations on managing an outbreak of influenza A infection in an aged care facility
  (Bradley J McCall, Christine M Mohr, Kari AJ Jarvinen)
  (Also available as a PDF file 46 KB)

• Influenza surveillance within hospitals: what is the world doing?
  (Kylie S Carville, Heath A Kelly)
  (Also available as a PDF file 41 KB)

Letter to the Editor

• Letter to the Editor
  (Also available as a PDF file 37 KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 July to 30 September 2007
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 110 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2007 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 35 KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 80 KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above: HTML files will be available shortly.
    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 162 KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 85 KB)

Other reports

• Change of contact details

• Errata
  (Also available as a PDF file 44 KB)

Indexes

• CDI subject index, 2007
  (Also available as a PDF file 37 KB)

• CDI author index, 2007
  (Also available as a PDF file 17 KB)

• CDI reviewers, 2007

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

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Disclaimer

Opinions expressed in Communicable Diseases Intelligence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing or the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Data may be subject to revision.