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Table of Contents - Volume 22, 1998

Number 1 - 22 January 1998 | Number 2 - 19 February 1998 | Number 3 - 19 March 1998 | Number 4 - 16 April 1998 | Number 5 - 14 May 1998 | Number 6 - 11 June 1998 | Number 7 - 9 July 1998 | Number 8 - 6 August 1998 | Number 9 - 3 September 1998 | Number 10 - 1 October 1998 | Number 11 - 29 October 1998 | Number 12 - 26 November 1998 | Number 13 - 24 December 1998

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Volume 22 Number 13 - 24 December 1998 (PDF file 217KB)

• Role of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit in monitoring communicable diseases of childhood
  (Katrina Williams, Elizabeth Elliott)
  - also available as a (PDF file 44KB)

• Resistance in gonococci isolated in the WHO Western Pacific Region to various antimicrobials used in the treatment of gonorrhoea, 1997
  - also available as a (PDF file 30KB)

• CDI Reviewers, 1998
  - also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

• Shigella at a wake in Adelaide, June 1998
  (Rod Givney, Jack Darzenos, Dianne Davos)
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file 22KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 30KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 15KB)
    
• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

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Volume 22 Number 12 - 26 November 1998 (PDF file 141KB)

• Seroepidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in Queensland, 1990 to 1997
  (Mike Gratten, Jane Carlisle, Jeffery Hanna, Greg Bapty, et al)
  - also available as a (PDF file 34KB)

• Australian recommendations for the Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 1999 season
  - also available as a (PDF file 10KB)

• Measles Control Campaign update
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Antibiotic guidelines for meningococcal prophylaxis
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file 24KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 36KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

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Volume 22 Number 11 - 29 October 1998 (PDF file 258KB)

• Report of the Australian Malaria Register for 1992 and 1993
  (Joan Bryan, Elekana Fa'afoi, Simon Forsyth)
  - also available as a (PDF file 79KB)

• Editorial comment
  (Bronwen Harvey)
  - also available as a (PDF file 18KB)

• Trends in malaria in Australia, 1991-1997
  (Bronwen Harvey)
  - also available as a (PDF file 26KB)

• VRE; a public comment
  (Alexandra Geue)
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Emergence and epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Australia
  (Jan Bell, John Turnidge, Geoffrey Coombes, Frances O'Brien)
  - also available as a (PDF file 41KB)

• Measles Control Campaign update
  - also available as a (PDF file 7KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file18KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 30KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 48KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

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Volume 22 Number 10 - 1 October 1998 (PDF file 259KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 1997
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - also available as a (PDF file 48KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1997
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - also available as a (PDF file 44KB)

• What is Gonococcus telling us?
  (Basil Donovan)
  - also available as a (PDF file 17KB)

• Immunisation of preterm Infants
  (S J Botham, D Issacs, M A Burgess)
  - also available as a (PDF file 21KB)

• Measles Control Campaign update
  - also available as a (PDF file 8KB)

• Global eradication of polio
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Final report of the Food Regulation Review
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Outbreak of Newcastle disease in commercial poultry flocks, NSW
  - also available as a (PDF file 10KB)

• Q fever outbreak in an abattoir in Cooma, NSW
  - also available as a (PDF file 10KB)

• Revision of the infection control guidelines
  - also available as a (PDF file 10KB)

• National reporting of Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing Escherichia coli infections and associated syndromes
  - also available as a (PDF file 37KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file 15KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 30KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 74KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

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Volume 22 Number 9 - 3 September 1998 (PDF file 303KB)

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 1996
  (Nicole Gilroy, Graeme Oliver and Bronwen Harvey)
  - also available as a (PDF file 118KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 1996
  (David Dawson)
  - also available as a (PDF file 68KB)

• A case of diphtheria in New Zealand
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• National Health and Medical Research Council recommendations on diphtheria vaccination
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Legionellosis and recent travel to Bali
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Sporadic human anthrax in urban Brisbane
  (Brad McCall, David Looke, Mark Crome, Graeme Nimmo, Gabrielle O'Kane, Jacqui Harper, et al)
  - also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Parasites in water
  - also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Cryptosporidium in Water Conference
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• How long should you boil water to make it safe to drink?
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Communicable Diseases Intelligence Technical Report Series
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Measles Control Campaign update
  - also available as a (PDF file 8KB)

• Typhoid vaccine
  - also available as a (PDF file 8KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 30KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 43KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 15KB)

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Volume 22 Number 8 - 6 August 1998 (PDF file 237KB)

• Rabies prophylaxis in Western Australia: the impact of Australian bat lyssavirus
  (Siranda Torvaldsen and Tony Watson)
  - also available as a (PDF file 48KB)

• A case of cholera
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Legionnaires' disease outbreak
  - also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

• Salmonellosis outbreak
  - also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

• Changes to the Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule
  - also available as a (PDF file 9KB)

• Immunise Australia Program: Measles Control Campaign
  - also available as a (PDF file 9KB)

• Current issues in immunisation
  • Moving the second dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine to school entry: implications for control of rubella (Timothy C Heath, Margaret A Burgess, Jill M Forrest)
    - also available as a (PDF file 21KB)
  • Administration of measles-mumps-rubella vaccination with other childhood schedule vaccines
    (Timothy C Heath, Margaret A Burgess, Eddie D O'Brien)
    - also available as a (PDF file 10KB)

• Changes in the reporting of HIV diagnoses in Australia
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file 37KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 51KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 55KB)
    
• Enterovirus outbreak in Asia
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

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Volume 22 Number 7 - 9 July 1998 (PDF file 253KB)

• Pertussis vaccines: past, present and future in Australia
  (Edited by Peter McIntyre, Jill Forrest, Tim Heath, Margaret Burgess and Bronwen Harvey)
  - also available as a (PDF file 63KB)

• Pertussis: the way it was
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Infant botulism - clarification
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Meningococcal disease in Australia: 1997 and beyond
  (Bronwen Harvey)
  - also available as a (PDF file 35KB)

• Current issues in immunisation
  • The Measles Control Campaign and immunisation adverse events
    - also available as a (PDF file 27KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file 34KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 47KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 62KB)
• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

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Volume 22 Number 6 - 11 June 1998 (PDF file 308KB)

• Arboviruses in the Australian region
  (John MacKenzie, Annette Broom, Roy Hall, Cheryl Johansen, Michael Lindsay, Debra Phillips, et al)
  - also available as a (PDF file 69KB)

• Ross River virus infection in the north-west outskirts of the Sydney basin
  (Janaki Amin, Linda Hueston, Dominic Dwyer, Anthony Capon)
  - also available as a (PDF file 31KB)

• A presumptive case of fatal Murray Valley encephalitis acquired in Alice Springs
  (Anthony Merritt, Debra Phillips, Ian Carney, Peter Whelan)
  - also available as a (PDF file 21KB)

• Dengue of Kokobera? A case report from the Top End of the Northern Territory
  (Jackie Mien, Kerry-Ann O'Grady, Peter Whelan, Angela Merianos)
  - also available as a (PDF file 26KB)

• Three cases of dengue 1 virus infection from islands in the Gulf of Thailand
  (E Geoffrey Playford, Debra Phillips, David Looke, Michael Whitby)
  - also available as a (PDF file 30KB)

• Dengue 3 in Cairns: the story so far
  - also available as a (PDF file 24KB)

• A case of infant botulism in South Australia
  - also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Current issues in immunisation
  - also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

• Letter to the editor
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - also available as a (PDF file 50KB)
  • Tables
    - also available as a (PDF file 63KB)
  • Additional reports
    - also available as a (PDF file 42KB)
    
• Dengue overseas
  - also available as a (PDF file 14KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 14KB)

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Volume 22 Number 5 - 14 May 1998 (PDF file 403KB)

• National Influenza Surveillance 1997
  (Margaret Curran and Alan Hampson)
  - also available as a (PDF file 187KB)

• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recommendations on influenza vaccination
  - also available as a (PDF file 7KB)

• Pertussis in South Australia
  (Wendy Scheil, Scott Cameron, Christine Roberts and Robert Hall)
  - also available as a (PDF file 84KB)

• Japanese encephalitis on the Australian mainland
  - also available as a (PDF file 10KB)

• Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome in South Australia
  - also available as a (PDF file 10KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance (PDF file 103KB)
  
  Each Section is also available as separate html file below.
  
  Highlights
  NNDSS Tables
  Labvise/ASPREN Tables
  Additional reports

• Overseas briefs
  - also available as a (PDF file 14KB)

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Volume 22 Number 4 - 16 April 1998 (PDF file 228KB)

• Sexually transmissible diseases surveillance in Australia: towards a co-ordinated national system
  (Gregory J Dore and John M Kaldor)
  - also available as a (PDF file 34KB)

• An outbreak of non-sexually transmitted gonococcal conjunctivitis in Central Australia and the Kimberley region (Rex Matters, Ignatius Wong, and Donna Mak)
  - also available as a (PDF file 69KB)

• Current issues in immunisation
  - also available as a (PDF file 21KB)

• Japanese encephalitis on the Australian mainland
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Murray Valley encephalitis in Western Australia
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance (PDF file 103KB)
  
  Each Section is also available as separate html file below.
  
  Highlights
  NNDSS Tables
  Labvise/ASPREN Tables
  Additional reports

• Overseas briefs (PDF file 14KB)

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Volume 22 Number 3 19 March 1998 (PDF file 168KB)

• Measles control in Australia: report of the Measles Control in Australia Workshop, 5 November 1997
  (Jill M Forrest, Margaret A Burgess, Timothy C Heath, Peter B McIntyre)
  - also available as a (PDF file 35KB)

• Methodology for measuring Australia's childhood immunisation coverage
  (Edward D O'Brien, Greg A Sam, Cathy Mead)
  - also available as a (PDF file 19KB)

• Current issues in immunisation
  - also available as a (PDF file 12KB)

• Melioidosis in north Queensland
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Gonococcal conjunctivitis outbreak
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance (PDF file 99KB)

• Overseas briefs (PDF file 22KB)

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Volume 22 Number 2 - 19 February 1998 (PDF file 168KB)

• Measles in Victoria 1992 to 1996: the importance of laboratory confirmation
  (Stephen Lambert)
  - also available as a (PDF file 70KB)

• Cryptosporidiosis outbreak
  - also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Communicable diseases surveillance

• Overseas briefs (PDF file 14KB)

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Volume 22 Number 1 - 22 January 1998 (PDF file 458KB)

• Malaria acquired in the Torres Strait
  (Anthony Merritt, Dan Ewald, Andrew F van den Hurk, Seriako Stephen Jnr, Jenni Langrell)
  - also available as a (PDF file 23KB)

• Importation of Aedes Albopictus in Townsville, Queensland
  (Peter Foley, Craig Hemsley, Keith Muller, Gary Maroske and Scott Ritchie)
  - also available as a (PDF file 24KB)

• Dengue in Queensland
  - also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Surveillance data in CDI, 1998
  - also available as a (PDF file 338KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance (PDF file 95KB)

• Overseas briefs (PDF file only 14KB)