Volume 33 Number 1, March 2009

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1,039 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2007 – Amended
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 275 KB)

• Prevalence of MRSA strains among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from outpatients, 2006
  (Geoffrey W Coombs, Graeme R Nimmo, Julie C Pearson, Keryn J Christiansen, Jan M Bell, Peter J Collignon, Mary-Louise McLaws and the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance)
  (Also available as a PDF file 235 KB)

Articles

• Vaccine failures and vaccine effectiveness in children during measles outbreaks in New South Wales, March–May 2006
  (Vicky Sheppeard, Bradley Forssman, Mark J Ferson, Conrad Moreira, Sue Campbell-Lloyd, Dominic E Dwyer, Jeremy M McAnulty)
  (Also available as a PDF file 213 KB)

Surveillance summary

• Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged <7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2008
  (Glenda L Lawrence, Deepika Mahajan, Ilnaz Roomiani)
  (Also available as a PDF file 93 KB)

Short reports

• Outbreaks of dengue in north Queensland, 1990–2008
  (Jeffrey N Hanna, Scott A Ritchie)
  (Also available as a PDF file 137 KB)

• An apparent recent decline in importations of dengue from Papua New Guinea into north Queensland
  (Jeffrey N Hanna, Scott A Ritchie)
  (Also available as a PDF file 175 KB)

• Outbreak of pertussis, 1 January to 31 March 2009
  (Surveillance Branch, Office of Health Protection)
  (Also available as a PDF file 83 KB)

• Outbreak of human metapneumovirus infection in a residential aged care facility
  (Maggi Osbourn, Kenneth A McPhie, V Mala Ratnamohan, Dominic E Dwyer, David N Durrheim)
  (Also available as a PDF file 110 KB)

• Enhanced Q fever risk exposure surveillance may permit better informed vaccination policy
  (Peter D Massey, Melissa Irwin, David N Durrheim)
  (Also available as a PDF file 96 KB)

• Hepatitis A outbreak epidemiologically linked to a food handler in Melbourne, Victoria
  (Stacey L Rowe, Kirsten Tanner, Joy E Gregory)
  (Also available as a PDF file 95 KB)

• Egg-associated Salmonella outbreak in an aged care facility, New South Wales, 2008
  (April R Roberts-Witteveen, Brett A Campbell, Tony D Merritt, Peter D Massey, Craig T Shadbolt, David N Durrheim)
  (Also available as a PDF file 85 KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 October to 31 December 2008
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 97 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 4th quarter, 2008 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 120 KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 99 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, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, meningococcal surveillance)
    (Also available as a PDF file 203 KB)

Administration

• Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2009
  (Also available as a PDF file 80 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Intelligence instructions for authors
  (Also available as a PDF file 49 KB)

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Editor: Ian McKay
Editorial and Production Staff:Conan Liu, Alison Milton

ISSN 1445-4866 Online

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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.