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Latest articles
Publication date: 21 November 2024
- Never waste a measles outbreak
- Measles secondary vaccine failure in a childcare setting: an outbreak report
- Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2024
- Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2024
Publication date: 23 October 2024
- New primary production and processing standards developed to reduce foodborne illness risks
- Learning from COVID-19: strengthening Australia’s research capacity through preparedness and collaboration
- Fresh produce-associated foodborne disease outbreaks in Australia, 2001 to 2017
- Validation of a risk stratification tool for SARS-CoV-2 Delta community transmission in the Australian Capital Territory
- An outbreak of double carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, harbouring NDM-5 and OXA-48 genes, at a tertiary hospital in Canberra, Australia
- Gonococcal infections and risk factors for reinfection: a descriptive and case-case analysis of notifications in the Australian Capital Territory, 2017–2022
- Community-led diphtheria vaccination campaign to manage a diphtheria outbreak in a remote Aboriginal community
- Public health rapid response in managing COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities: a regional public health unit perspective
Publication date: 21 August 2024
- Differential COVID-19 case ascertainment by age and vaccination status in Victoria, Australia: a serosurveillance and record linkage study
- Yersiniosis outbreaks in Gold Coast residential aged care facilities linked to nutritionally-supplemented milkshakes, January–April 2023
- AGAR-Kids Surveillance Outcome Programs – Bloodstream infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns from Patients < 18 years, January 2020 – December 2021
- Comorbidities and confusion: addressing COVID-19 vaccine access and information challenges
- Respiratory diphtheria in the time of Omicron
- Mycoplasma genitalium retrospective audit of Northern Territory isolates from 2022
- Outbreak investigation of norovirus gastroenteritis in a childcare facility in Central Queensland, Australia: a household level case series analysis
- Age of hepatitis B e antigen loss in Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous residents of tropical Australia; implications for clinical care
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Aims
Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Health Protection Policy and Surveillance Division, Department of Health and Aged Care. The journal aims to disseminate information on the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases of relevance to Australia.
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ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)
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Editorial team
The editorial team consists of the editor, deputy editor, and a designer and is currently augmented by a web content migration worker. The editorial team is supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB).
Editor: Christina Bareja
Deputy Editor: Simon Petrie
Design and Production: Lisa Thompson
Web Content Migration: Dorothy Kass, Ken Vesperman
Editorial advisory board
The role of the CDI Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) is to:
- provide expert advice to the CDI editorial team; advocate for CDI in the broader community;
- serve as a critical sounding board for the editorial team on editorial ideas and themes;
- provide ideas for features and news and thoughts on current trends; and provide constructive feedback on published issues.
David Durrheim
Mark Ferson
Clare Huppatz
John Kaldor
Martyn Kirk
Meru Sheel
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