Volume 32 Number 2, June 2008

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1,720 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Australia’s notifiable diseases status, 2006: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (Kylie Begg, Paul Roche, Rhonda Owen, Conan Liu, Marlena Kaczmarek, Aurysia Hii, Stefan Stirzaker, Ann McDonald, Gerard Fitzsimmons, Peter McIntyre, Robert Menzies, Iain East, David Coleman, Krissa O’Neil)
  (Also available as a PDF file 910 KB)

• Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2007
  (Rhonda Owen, Ian G Barr, Andrew Pengilley, Conan Liu, Bev Paterson, Marlena Kaczmarek)
  (Also available as a PDF file 278 KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 146 KB)

• Surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia: 2008
  (Genevieve M Klug, Alison Boyd, Victoria Lewis, Amelia McGlade, Helene Roberts, Samantha L Douglass, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins)
  (Also available as a PDF file 97 KB)

Articles

• Epidemiology of laboratory confirmed tuberculosis in Victoria, 1990 to 2004
  (Michelle E McPherson, David Leslie, Aina Sievers, Mahomed Patel, Heath Kelly)
  (Also available as a PDF file 98 KB)

• Prevalence of antimicrobial resistances in Streptococcus pneumoniae in Australia, 2005: Report from the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
  (Thomas Gottlieb, Peter J Collignon, Jennifer M Robson, Julie C Pearson, Jan M Bell and the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance)
  (Also available as a PDF file 170 KB)

• Enhanced case detection for newly acquired hepatitis C infection: epidemiological findings and health service implications
  (Rebecca Guy, Darshini Devadason, Megan Lim, Nasra Higgins, Alisa Pedrana, Katharine Gibson, Jenny Lewis, Tim Spelman, Bethany White, John Kaldor, Margaret Hellard)
  (Also available as a PDF file 250 KB)

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Short reports

• What do we know about 7vpcv coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children? A 2007 update
  (Brynley P Hull, Shelley Deeks, Robert Menzies, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 93 KB)

• Enhanced surveillance for serious complications of influenza in children: role of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit
  (Craig B Dalton, David N Durrheim, Michael A Conroy)
  (Also available as a PDF file 61 KB)

• Barmah Forest virus serology; implications for diagnosis and public health action
  (Patrick Cashman, Linda Hueston, David Durrheim, Peter Massey, Stephen Doggett, Richard C Russell)
  (Also available as a PDF file 91 KB)

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2008
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 102 KB)

Quarterly reports

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 1st quarter, 2008 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 132 KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 95 KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above and as HTML files below
    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, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    (Also available as a PDF file 118 KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 94 KB)

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Editor: Krissa O'Neil
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Conan Liu, Alison Milton, Aurysia Hii

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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.