Volume 32 Number 1, March 2008

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1,231 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2006
  (Paul W Roche, Vicki Krause, Anastasios Konstantinos, Ivan Bastian, et al)
  (Also available as a PDF file 137 KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2006: A report of the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network
  (Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian, Chris Gilpin, Peter Jelfs, Terillee Keehner, Aina Sievers)
  (Also available as a PDF file 103 KB)

• Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2006
  (Paul W Roche, Vicki Krause, Heather Cook, with input from Jenny Barralet David Coleman, Amy Sweeny, James Fielding, Carolien Giele, Robin Gilmour, Ros Holland, Riemke Kampen)
  (Also available as a PDF file 266 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Network Australia National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee annual report, 2006–07
  (Conan Liu, Kylie Begg, Cheryl Johansen, Peter Whelan, Nina Kurucz, Lorna Melville, and the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee)
  (Also available as a PDF file 357 KB)

• Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2006
  (The WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 95 KB)

• Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit annual report, 2006
  (Yvonne Zurynski, Elizabeth J Elliott)
  (Also available as a PDF file 132 KB)

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Articles

• Influenza viruses with reduced sensitivity to the neuraminidase inhibitor drugs in untreated young children
  (Aeron C Hurt, Ian G Barr)
  (Also available as a PDF file 102 KB)

• Higher than expected seasonal influenza activity in Victoria, 2007
  (Emma R Miller, James E Fielding, Kristina A Grant, Ian G Barr, Georgina Papadakis, Heath A Kelly)
  (Also available as a PDF file 273 KB)

• Enhanced surveillance for serious compli­cations of influenza in children: role of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit
  (Yvonne A Zurynski, David Lester-Smith, Marino S Festa, Alison M Kesson, Robert Booy, Elizabeth J Elliott)
  (Also available as a PDF file 98 KB)

• Absence of a Chlamydia trachomatis variant, harbouring a deletion in the cryptic plasmid, in clients of a sexually transmissible infection clinic and antenatal patients in Melbourne
  (Matthew P Stevens, Sarah E Tan, Leonie Horvath, Christopher K Fairley, Suzanne M Garland, Sepehr N Tabrizi)
  (Also available as a PDF file 117 KB)

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Short reports

• Rotavirus in Australia
  (Kate A Ward, Peter B McIntyre, Carl D Kirkwood, Paul W Roche, Mark J Ferson, Paul G Van Buynder, April R Roberts-Witteveen, Alison M Kesson, Vicki L Krause, Jeremy M McAnulty)
  (Also available as a PDF file 103 KB)

• A norovirus outbreak associated with consumption of NSW oysters: implications for quality assurance systems
  (Clare Huppatz, Sally A Munnoch, Tory Worgan, Tony D Merritt, Craig Dalton, Paul M Kelly, David N Durrheim)
  (Also available as a PDF file 90 KB)

• The public health value of emergency department syndromic surveillance following a natural disaster
  (Kirsty Hope, Tony Merritt, Keith Eastwood, Kelly Main, David N Durrheim, David Muscatello, Kerry Todd, Wei Zheng)
  (Also available as a PDF file 65 KB)

• School-based vaccinations delivered by general practice in rural north Queensland: an evaluation of a new human papilloma virus vaccination program
  (Carole Reeve, Stephanie De La Rue, Dennis Pashen, Margaret Culpan, Tracy Cheffins)
  (Also available as a PDF file 86 KB)

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Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 October to 31 December 2007
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 99 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 4th quarter, 2007 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 109 KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 93 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)
    (Also available as a PDF file 205 KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 103 KB)

Administrative

• Communicable Diseases Intelligence instructions for authors
  (Also available as a PDF file 97 KB)

• Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2008
  (Also available as a PDF file 97 KB)

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Editor: Krissa O'Neil
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Conan Liu, Alison Milton

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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.