Contents

This issue is available as a full PDF file (6038 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Australia’s notifiable disease status, 2009: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (NNDSS Annual Report Writing Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 1855 KB)

• Immunisation coverage annual report, 2009
  (Brynley Hull, Aditi Dey, Deepika Mahajan, Rob Menzies, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 3784 KB)

• Surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia: update to December 2010
  (Genevieve M Klug, Alison Boyd, Amelia McGlade, Christiane Stehmann, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins)
  (Also available as a PDF file 94 KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2008 and 2009
  (Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian, Robyn Carter, Peter Jelfs, Terillee Keehner, Aina Sievers)
  (Also available as a PDF file 119 KB)

Peer-reviewed articles

• Norovirus in residential care facilities: Does prompt notification of outbreaks help?
  (Craig A Davis, Hassan Vally, Frank H Beard)
  (Also available as a PDF file 95 KB)

• Feasibility of latent tuberculosis infection diagnosis by interferon-gamma release assay remote from testing facilities
  (James M Trauer, Krispin M Hajkowicz, Kevin G Freeman, Vicki L Krause)
  (Also available as a PDF file 182 KB)

• Chronic disease and hospitalisation for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Western Australians
  (Leigh S Goggin, Dale Carcione, Donna B Mak, Gary K Dowse, Carolien M Giele, David W Smith, Paul V Effler)
  (Also available as a PDF file 144 KB)

• Respiratory syncytial virus – the unrecognised cause of health and economic burden among young children in Australia
  (Geetha Ranmuthugala, Laurie Brown, Brett A Lidbury)
  (Also available as a PDF file 100 KB)

• Using HIV notification data to identify priority migrant groups for HIV prevention, New South Wales, 2000–2008
  (Michelle E McPherson, Tadgh McMahon, Renee J Moreton, Kate A Ward)
  (Also available as a PDF file 102 KB)

• Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 44 infection among attendees of a wedding reception, April 2009
  (Emma J Denehy, Jane CA Raupach, Scott A Cameron, Kamalini M Lokuge, Ann P Koehler)
  (Also available as a PDF file 88 KB)

Surveillance summaries

• Catching up with the catch–up: HPV vaccination coverage data for Australian women aged 18–26 years from the National HPV Vaccination Program Register
  (Julia Brotherton, Dorota Gertig, Genevieve Chappell, Lesley Rowlands, Marion Saville)
  (Also available as a PDF file 101 KB)

Quarterly reports

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Tables (PDF file 81 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, gonococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance)
    (Also available as a PDF file 110 KB)

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Editor:Margaret Curran
Editorial and Production Staff: Alison Milton, Mark Power, Lance Sanders

ISSN 1445-4866 Online

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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.