These publications were produced by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, now the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

This journal is indexed by Index Medicus and Medline.

To search for an article by subject please refer to the CDI subject index 2001(PDF version 65kb) (HTML version)

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Volume 25 Number 4 - November 2001 (PDF file 862KB)

• Editorial: Looking forward, looking back
  (Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 27KB)

• Editorial: The risk of anthrax and smallpox in Australia
  (Dick Smallwood)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 37KB)

• Australia's notifiable diseases status, 1999: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Ming Lin, Heather Gidding, Martyn Kirk, Alison Milton, David Witteveen, Angela Merianos)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 690KB)

• Australian notifiable diseases 2001
  - Also available as a (PDF file 73KB)

• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in Australia
  (Alison Boyd, Ashley Fletcher, James Lee, Victoria Lewis, Colin Masters, Steven Collins)
  - Also available as a (PDF file74KB)

• Australia announces new measures for imported beef products
  (Fiona Brooke)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 28KB)

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia
  (Paul Roche, Angela Merianos, and the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 98KB)

• Retirement of David Dawson
  - Also available as a (PDF file 23KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 1998 to 1999: Report of the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network
  (David Dawson, WHO Collaborating Centre in Tuberculosis Bacteriology)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 79KB)

• Networking for health protection: the Communicable Diseases Network Australia
  (Peter Lindenmayer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 62KB)

• New chairs of CDNA and PHLN
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne diseases surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, April to June 2001
  (Martyn Kirk for the OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 60KB)

• Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2000
  (The WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 59KB)

• Letter to the Editor: Invasive meningococcal disease
  - Also available as a (PDF file 54KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 99 linked to a hotel buffet in Victoria
  (Jane Grieg, Karin Lalor, Catherine Ferreira, Eileen McCormick)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 32KB)

• Invasive meningococcal disease and HIV coinfection
  (Deborah Couldwell)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 49KB)

• An exercise in communication: analysis of calls to a meningococcal disease hotline
  (Justine Ward, Brad McCall, Sarah Cherian)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 50KB)

• Exotic Aedes mosquitoes: onshore detection and elimination in Darwin, Northern Territory
  (Peter Whelan, Richard Russell, Gwenda Hayes, Garry Tucker, Graeme Goodwin)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 48KB)

• Prevalence markers of exposure to Q fever in rural central Queensland
  (Roscoe Taylor, Ian Hunter,Richard Tan)
  - Also available as a ((PDF file 49KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (gastrointestinal illness, quarantinable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, other bacterial infections, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 96KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN) (PDF file 98KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions and NNDSS notifications
    notification rates
    LabVISE
    PathCentre and APSREN
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, Australian encephalitis: Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme, HIV/AIDS surveillance, Childhood immunisation coverage)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 72KB)
    
• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 118KB)

• CDI reviewers, 2001
  - Also available as a (PDF file 5KB)

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Editor: Angela Merianos
Editorial and Production Staff: Alison Milton, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Ming Lin, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 25 Number 3 - August 2001 (PDF file 862KB)

• Editorial: Development of Australia's response to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Fiona Brooke)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 33KB)

• Editorial: The United Nations General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS: 'Global crisis - global action'
  (Paul Lehmann)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 31KB)

• Salmonella Zanzibar in rural South Australia
  (Ingrid Tribe, Scott Cameron)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 22KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne diseases surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, January to March 2001 (Martyn Kirk for the OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 73KB)

• ASPREN definitions 2001
  - Also available as a (PDF file 22KB)

• Annual Report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2000
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Angela Merianos, Alan Hampson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 117KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2000
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 99KB)

• An outbreak of serogroup C meningococcal disease associated with a secondary school
  (Priscilla Robinson, Kath Taylor, Graham Tallis, John Carnie, Graham Rouch, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 143KB)

• Editorial: Meningococcal disease
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Angela Merianos)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 56KB)

• Measles immunity among young adults in Victoria
  (Heath Kelly, Michaela Riddell, Stephen Lambert, Jennie Leydon, Mike Catton)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 64KB)

• Measles immunity in young Australia adults
  (Heather Gidding, Gwendolyn Gilbert)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 69KB)

• Measles: how many hospitalised cases are we missing?
  (Glenda Lawrence, Stephen Lambert, Heath Kelly, Ross Andrews)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 62KB)

• Editorial: Measles elimination in Australia
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Angela Merianos)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 41KB)

• Report of the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program, 2000/2001
  (Paul Masendycz, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Carl Kirkwood, Ruth Bishop, Graeme Barnes)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 65KB)

• Epidemiology of malaria in Victoria 1999-2000: East Timor emerges as a new source of disease
  (Susan Skull, Graham Tallis)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 48KB)

• Locally-acquired Plasmodium falciparum malaria on Darley Island in the Torres Strait
  (Dave Harley, Gaynor Garstone, Brian Montgomery, Scott Richie)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 97KB)

• Letter to the Editor: MVE
  - Also available as a (PDF file 33KB)

• A case of Kunjin virus encephalitis in a traveller returning from the Northern Territory
  (Patrick Charles, Jennie Leydon, Kerry-Ann O'Grady, Bryan Speed)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 44KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Presentation of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System data
  • Highlights (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal illness, quarantinable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other diseases, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 80KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN) (PDF file 84KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions and NNDSS notifications
    notification rates
    LabVISE and ASPREN
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, Australian encephalitis: Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme, HIV/AIDS Surveillance)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 65KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 80KB)

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Editor: Angela Merianos
Editorial and Production Staff: Alison Milton, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer

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Volume 25 Number 2 - April 2001 (PDF file 785KB)

• Murray Valley encephalitis virus surveillance and control initiatives in Australia: a report on behalf of the National Arbovirus Advisory Committee of the Communicable Diseases Network Australia
  (Jenean Spencer, Joe Azoulas, Annette Broom, Tim Buick, Peter Daniels, Stephen Doggett, et al)
  Abstract/Background
  Article body
  - Also available as a (PDF file 152KB)

• Murray Valley encephalitis in Mt Isa, north Queensland
  (Susan Hills, on behalf of the Tropical Public Health Unit Network, Queensland Health)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 29KB)

• Central Australian Murray Valley encephalitis update, 2001
  (Alex Brown, Vicki Krause)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 38KB)

• Australian encephalitis: Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme
  - Also available as a (PDF file 44KB)

• Report of the Australian National Polio Reference Laboratory, 1 July to 31 December 2000
  (Vicki Stambos, Kerri Anne Brussen, Ann Turnbull, Bruce Thorley, Margery Kennett)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 68KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2000
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 111KB)

• Investigation and control of a cluster of Legionnaires' disease in western Sydney
  (Julianne Brown, Krishna Hort, Ron Bouwman, Anthony Capon, Narinder Bansal, Ian Goldthorpe, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 65KB)

• Prevalence of tattooing and body piercing in the Australian community
  (Toni Makki, Ian McAllister)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 94KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 29 linked to a noodle restaurant in South Australia
  (Ingrid Tribe, Helen Tsimogiannis, Princess Mmolawa, Dianne Davos)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 28KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 126 linked to a cake shop in South Australia
  (Adrianna Milazzo, Nick Rose)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 27KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Presentation of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System data
    - Also available as a (PDF file 26KB)
  • Highlights (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal illness, quarantinable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other diseases, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 176KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN) (PDF file 65KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS notifications
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions and notification rates
    LabVISE
    ASPREN
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, rotavirus surveillance, HIV/AIDS Surveillance, Childhood vaccination coverage)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 89KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 61KB)

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Editor: Angela Merianos
Editorial and Production Staff: Alison Milton, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer

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Volume 25 Number 1 - January 2001 (PDF file 242KB)

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 1998
  (National TB Advisory Committee)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 90KB)

• A primary school outbreak of phayrngoconjunctival fever caused by adenovirus type 3
  (Dave Harley, Bruce Harrower, Michael Lyon, Alan Dick)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 62KB)

• Measles outbreak among young adults in Victoria
  (Ross Andrews, for the Surveillance and Response Team)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 39KB)

• Varicella vaccine in post-prophylaxis
  (Mark Ferson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 50KB)

• Onshore catering increases the risk of diarrhoeal illness amongst cruise ship passengers
  (Robyn Pugh, Linda Selvey, Mark Crome, Mary Beers)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 60KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (gastrointestinal illness, chlamydial infection, vaccine preventable diseases, legionellosis, meningococcal infections,vectorborne diseases)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 39KB)
    
  • Tables (Historical figure, NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN) (PDF file 65KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    Historical figure, NNDSS,
    LabVISE, ASPREN
    
  • Additional reports (Australian encephalitis: sentinel chicken surveillance, rotavirus surveillance, HIV/AIDS Surveillance, Childhood vaccination coverage)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

• Outbreak report: Measles cluster in south-eastern Sydney with transmission in a general practice waiting room
  - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

• Case report: Typhoid in the Northern Territory
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

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Editor: Angela Merianos
Deputy Editor: Ian Griffith
Editorial and Production Staff: Alison Milton, Ming Lin