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Volume 28 Supplement 2, December 2004

The Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Australia, 2001 to 2002 is available here as a full document as a PDF file 2,049KB or in HTML and PDF format by chapters (below).

The charts may also be downloaded as a MS PowerPoint presentation (two files) (ZIP file 285KB).

Julia Brotherton, Peter McIntyre, Michele Puech, Han Wang, Heather Gidding, Brynley Hull, et al

• Tables
• Figures
• Abbreviations



• Executive summary
• Acknowledgements
  (Executive summary, acknowledgements and abbreviations also available as a PDF file 52KB)



• Introduction
• Methods
  (Introduction and Methods also available as a PDF file 58KB)



• Vaccine preventable diseases
  (Also available as a PDF file 1226KB)



• Vaccination coverage
  (Also available as a PDF file 532KB)



• Discussion
  (Also available as a PDF file 76KB)



• References
  (Also available as a PDF file 65KB)



• Appendix 1: Historical charts of notifications of vaccine preventable diseases
  (Also available as a PDF file 478KB)



• Appendix 2: Notifications by State/Territory and year (January 1997–December 2002)
  (Also available as a PDF file 84KB)



• Appendix 3: Hospitalisations by State or Territory and financial year (July 1997–June 2002)
  (Also available as a PDF file 87KB)



• Appendix 4: Changes to the Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule (1992–2002)
  (Also available as a PDF file 55KB)



• Appendix 5: Vaccination funding in Australia
  (Also available as a PDF file 46KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Chris Clucas, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 28 Issue 4, December 2004 (PDF version 1,546KB)

• Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2003
  (Paul Roche, Vicki Krause, Mark Bartlett, David Coleman, Heather Cook, Megan Counahan, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 354KB)

• Laboratory Surveillance of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Australia, 2003 — predicting the future impact of the universal childhood conjugate vaccine program
  (Michael Watson, Paul Roche, Kathy Bayley, Jan M Bell, Peter Collignon, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 156KB)

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2003
  (Janet Li, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer and the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee )
  - Also available as a (PDF version 165KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2003
  (Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian, Taryn Crighton, Chris Gilpin, Frank Haverkort, Aina Sievers)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 132KB)

• Report of the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program 2003 to 2004
  (Carl Kirkwood, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Ruth Bishop, Graeme Barnes)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 99KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, July to September 2004
  (The OzfoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 83KB)

• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, July to September 2004 - Also available as a (PDF version 54KB)

• Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation for children aged less than  years, January to 30 June 2004
  (Glenda Lawrence)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 82KB)

• The acceptance of three simultaneous vaccine injections recommended at  months of age
  (Jeffrey N Hanna, Ruth C Bullen, Debora E Andrews)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 89KB)

• A family cluster of serogroup C meningococcal disease
  (Megan K Young, Bradley J McCall, Helen V Smith, David Looke )
  - Also available as a (PDF version 83KB)

• Top End rural and remote Indigenous women: an Australian population group vulnerable to rubella
  (Jennifer M Hunt, Judith Lumley)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 98KB)

• Influenza A associated morbidity and mortality in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
  (Bronwyn G Milne, Stephen Williams, Meryta L A May, Alison M Kesson, Jonathan Gillis, Margaret A Burgess)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 116KB)

• The cost of seasonal respiratory illnesses in Australian children: the dominance of patient and family costs and implications for vaccine use
  (Stephen Lambert, Kerry-Ann O’Grady, Susan Gabriel, Robert Carter, Terry Nolan)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 129KB)

• Hepatitis C prevalence — a nationwide serosurvey
  (Janaki Amin, Heather Gidding, Gwendolyn Gilbert, Josephine Backhouse, John Kaldor, Dore, Margaret Burgess)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 96KB)

• A multi-jurisdictional outbreak of hepatitis A related to a youth camp — implications for catering operations and mass gatherings
  (Sally A Munnoch, Rosie H Ashbolt, David J Coleman, Nerissa Walton, Mary Y Beers-Deeble, Roscoe Taylor)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 125KB)

• Outbreak of Salmonella Singapore associated with eating sushi
  (Jennifer Barralet, Russell Stafford, Chris Towner, Peta Smith)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 53KB)

• Reporting of communicable disease conditions under surveillance by the APSU, January to 30 June 2004
  (Compiled by Elizabeth Elliott, Donna Rose)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 76KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  
  • Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2004 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF version 84KB)
  
  
  
  • Tables (PDF version 138KB)
    
    HTML version
    Table 1 (NNDSS)
    Table 2 (NNDSS)
    Table 3 (NNDSS)
    Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
  
  
  
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance, Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF version 169KB)
  
  

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF version 79KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Christy Clucas, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 28 Issue 3, September 2004 (PDF version 1,464KB)

• Evaluation of Australia's National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System
  (Megge Miller, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Mary Deeble)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 177KB)

• Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation: Australia 2002 to 2003
  (Glenda Lawrence, Ian Boyd, Peter McIntyre, David Isaacs)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 215KB)

• Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2003
  (Kerri Anne Brussen, Vicki Stambos, Bruce Thorley)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 109KB)

• An outbreak of meningococcal disease in a secondary school—implications for public health practice
  (Thais Miles, Peter Lewis, Lucy Cook, Ken Bruderlin)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 74KB)

• Festschrift for Professor Margaret Burgess AO
  (Compiled by: Julia Brotherton)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 121KB)

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia January 1970 to December 2003
  (Genevieve Klug, Victoria Lewis, Alison Boyd, James Lee, Colin Masters, Steven Collins)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 79KB)

• Foodborne disease investigation across Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2003
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 352KB)

• Laboratory surveillance of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli in South Australia and the Hunter Health Area, New South Wales, Australia
  (Robyn Doyle, Kieda Watson, Leanne Unicomb, Janice Lanser, Rolf Wise, Rod Ratcliff, et al )
  - Also available as a (PDF version 68KB)

• Enhanced surveillance of acute hepatitis B in south-eastern Sydney
  (Roslyn Poulos, Mark Ferson)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 85KB)

• Antiviral prophylaxis in the management of an influenza outbreak in an aged care facility
  (Kym Bush, Jeremy McAnulty, Ken McPhie, Roderick Reynolds, Melanie Boomer, Lisa Clarkson, et al )
  - Also available as a (PDF version 99KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, April to June 2004
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 85KB)

• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, April to June 2004
  - Also available as a (PDF version 47KB)

Communicable Diseases Surveillance


• Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2004 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, LabVISE)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 118KB)

• Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
  Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
  Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
  Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
  - Also available as one (PDF file143KB)

• Additional reports (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance, Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 209KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF version 115KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Christy Clucas, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 28 Supplement 1, June 2004

• Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia, 1999 to 2002
  (Robert Menzies, Peter McIntyre, Frank Beard)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 378KB)

Please note that this supplement was also published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Issue No 2, which is slightly different in that it includes an abstract which is a condensed version of the Executive Summary.

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Pauline Lamson, Kathleen Freestone

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Volume 28 Issue 2, June 2004 (PDF version 1,771 KB)

• Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia, 1999 to 2002
  (Robert Menzies, Peter McIntyre, Frank Beard)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 265KB)

• Infection control guidelines for the prevention of transmission of infectious diseases in the health care setting
  - Also available as a (PDF version 30KB)

• Annual report of the National Infuenza Surveillance Scheme, 2003
  (Keflemariam Yohannes, Paul Roche, Alan Hampson, Megge Miller, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 275KB)

• The Influenza Surveillance Program in Western Australia, 2003
  (Annette Broom, David Smith)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 129KB)

• Higher than normal seasonal influenza activity in Victoria, 2003
  (Joy Turner, Thomas Tran, Chris Birch, Heath Kelly)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 192KB)

• Severe acute respiratory syndrome surveillance in Australia
  (James Fielding, Keflemariam Yohannes, Hassan Vally, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 79KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2003
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 85KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2003
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 136KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, 1 October to 31 December 2003
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 74KB)

• Foodborne disease outbreaks in Australia, 1995 to 2000
  (Craig Dalton, Joy Gregory, Martyn Kirk, Russell Stafford, Ed Kraa, David Gould)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 164KB)

• An outbreak of shigellosis in a child care centre
  (Dania Genobile, Joanna Gaston, Graham Tallis, Joy Gregory, Julia Griffith, Mary Valcanis, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 75KB)

• Passive surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Queensland public hospitals: the basis for a national system?
  (Graeme Nimmo, Jonathan Fong)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 136KB)

• Letter to the Editor: Was the egg a plausible source for the Salmonella Potsdam outbreak?
  Response to the Letter to the Editor: Salmonella Potsdam and eggs
  - Also available as a (PDF version 44KB)

• What do we know about 7vPCV coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children?
  (Brynley Hull, Peter McIntyre)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 86KB)

• Age-related risk of adverse events following yellow fever vaccination in Australia
  (Glenda Lawrence, Margaret Burgess, Robert Kass)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 81KB)

• Planning for human papilomavirus vaccines in Australia: report of a research group meeting
  (Julia Brotherton, Peter McIntyre)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 60KB)

• Impact of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccination on Hib meningitis in children in Far North Queensland, 1989 to 2003
  (Jeffrey Hanna)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 64KB)

• Trends in potential exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus in South East Queensland, 1996 to 2003
  (Megan Young, Bradley McCall)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 91KB)

• Ross River virus and its vectors in Sorell Municipal Area, south-eastern Tasmania, January to March 2002
  (Greg Robertson, Stephen Doggett, Owen Seeman, Richard Russell, John Clancy, John Haniotis)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 134KB)

• Scrub typhus in the Northern Territory: exceeding the boundaries of Litchfield National Park
  (Anna Ralph, Mark Raines, Peter Whelan, Bart Currie)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 170KB)

• Follow-up of communicable diseases reported among travellers on aeroplanes
  - Also available as a (PDF version 49KB)

• National Surveillance for HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia
  - Also available as a (PDF version 47KB)

• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia
  - Also available as a (PDF version 42KB)

• Changes to the management of meningococcal disease in Australia
  - Also available as a (PDF version 39KB)

• Workshop announcement: 21st NRL Workshop on Serology
  - Also available as a (PDF version 27KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights for 1st quarter, 2004 (bloodborne disease, gastrointestinal disease, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other bacterial infections)
    - Also available as a (PDF version 119KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE) (PDF version 115KB)
    (HTML version NNDSS reporting jurisdictions, 14KB NNDSS notifications, 43KB NNDSS notification rates, 30KB LabVISE 38KB)
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, gonococcal surveillance, meningococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, childhood immunisation coverage, Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF version 145KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - (PDF version 75KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Pauline Lamson, Kathleen Freestone

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Volume 28 Issue 1, March 2004 (PDF version 1,296KB)

• Editorial: Notifiable diseases, Australia, 2004
  (CDNA Surveillance Case Definitions Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 43KB)

• Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2002: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (Keflemariam Yohannes, Paul Roche, Charlie Blumer, Jenean Spencer, Alison Milton, Chris Bunn, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 783KB)

• Interruption of rubella virus transmission in Australia may require vaccination of adult males: evidence from a Victorian sero-survey
  (Heath Kelly, Leon Worth, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Michaela Riddell)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 37KB)

• Risk factors for sporadic human infection with shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in South Australia
  (Rebecca Hundy, Scott Cameron)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 49KB)

• Uptake of influenza vaccine among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island adults in north Queensland, 2003
  (Jeffrey Hanna, Anna Morgan, Bradley McCulloch)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 112KB)

• Fish, so foul! Foodborne illness caused by combined fish histamine and wax ester poisoning
  (Alexander Leask, Peter Yankos, Mark Ferson)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 27KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, 1 October to 31 December 2003
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 36KB)

• Reporting of communicable disease conditions under surveillance by the APSU: 1 January to 30 September 2003
  (Compiled by Elizabeth Elliot and Donna Rose)
  - Also available as a (PDF version 47KB)

• National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases
  - Also available as a (PDF version 47KB)

• CDI instructions for authors
  - Also available as a (PDF version 27KB)

• Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2004
  - Also available as a (PDF version 44KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights for 4th quarter, 2003 (gastrointestinal disease, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other bacterial infections)
    - Also available as a (PDF version 88KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE) (PDF version 86KB)
    - HTML version NNDSS reporting jurisdictionsNNDSS notificationsNNDSS notification ratesLabVISE)
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, gonococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, childhood immunisation coverage, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF version 150KB)
  • Overseas briefs
    - Also available as a (PDF version 21KB)

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  Editor: Jenean Spencer
  Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Pauline Lamson

  
  
  
  

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