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Volume 30, Number 4, December 2006
This issue is available as a full PDF file (1024 KB) or by individual articles below.- Communicable Diseases Network Australia National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee annual report, 2005–06
(Conan Liu, Cheryl Johansen, Nina Kurucz, Peter Whelan)
(Also available as a PDF file 364 KB) 
- Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2005
(The WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme)
(Also available as a PDF file 79 KB) 
- National Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2005–06
(Carl D Kirkwood, David Cannan, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Ruth F Bishop, Graeme L Barnes and the National Rotavirus Surveillance Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 44 KB) 
- Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged <7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2006
(Glenda Lawrence, Ian Boyd)
(Also available as a PDF file 40 KB) 
- An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 64 gastroenteritis linked to catered luncheons in Adelaide, South Australia, June 2005
(Cameron RM Moffatt, Barry G Combs, Lillian Mwanri, Ros Holland, Brian Delroy, Scott Cameron, Rod C Givney)
(Also available as a PDF file 52 KB) 
- A multi-jurisdiction outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 135 associated with purchasing chicken meat from a supermarket chain
(Michelle E McPherson, James E Fielding, Barbara Telfer, Nicola Stephens, Barry G Combs, Belinda A Rice, Gerard J Fitzsimmons, Joy E Gregory)
(Also available as a PDF file 60 KB) 
- Two years of enhanced surveillance of sexually-transmitted chlamydia in South East Queensland
(Megan K Young, Bradley J McCall, David Jardine)
(Also available as a PDF file 58 KB) 
- Communicable Disease Conference 2007
(Also available as a PDF file 14 KB) 
- Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Central Australia
(Claire L Stevens, Anna Ralph, James ET McLeod, Malcolm I McDonald)
(Also available as a PDF file 51 KB) 
- OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 July to 30 September 2006
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 35 KB) 
- Communicable diseases surveillance
- Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2006
(Also available as a PDF file 77 KB) 
 - Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2006
 
- Tables (PDF file 92 KB)
The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below. 
- Overseas briefs
(Also available as a PDF file 27 KB) 
- CDI subject index, 2006
(Also available as a PDF file 31 KB) 
- CDI author index, 2006
(Also available as a PDF file 17 KB) 
- CDI reviewers 2006
(Also available as a PDF file 15 KB) 
Editor: John Walker
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche and Alison Milton
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Volume 30 Number 3, September 2006
This issue is available as a full PDF file (1098 KB) or by individual articles below.
- Re-emerging poliomyelitis – is Australia's surveillance adequate?
(David N Durrheim, Peter Massey, Heath Kelly)
(Also available as a PDF file 28KB) 
- Burden and causes of foodborne disease in Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2005 
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 168KB) 
- Communicable Diseases Network Australia annual report, 2005 
(Also available as a PDF file 83KB) 
- Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2005 
(Glenda Lawrence, Ian Boyd, Peter McIntyre, David Isaacs)
(Also available as a PDF file 252KB) 
- Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2005 
(Kerri Anne Brussen, Jason Roberts, Aishah Ibrahim, Vicki Stambos, Bruce R Thorley)
(Also available as a PDF file 49KB) 
- Communicable and vaccine-preventable conditions under surveillance by the APSU: 2005 update 
(Yvonne Zurynski, Paula A Cronin, Elizabeth J Elliott)
(Also available as a PDF file 81KB) 
- A comparison of data sources for the surveillance of seasonal and pandemic influenza in Victoria
(Hazel J Clothier, Luke Atkin, Joy Turner, Vijaya Sundararajan, Heath A Kelly)
(Also available as a PDF file 100KB) 
- Circulation and antigenic drift in human influenza B viruses in SE Asia and Oceania since 2000
(Ian G Barr, Naomi Komadina, Chris Durrant, Helen Sjogren, Aeron C Hurt, Robert P Shaw)
(Also available as a PDF file 147KB) 
- Nosocomial and community transmission of measles virus genotype D8 imported by a returning traveller from Nepal
(Kathryn M Weston, Dominic E Dwyer, Mala Ratnamohan, Ken McPhie, Sau-wan Chan, James M Branley, Lisa J Allchin, Krishna P Hort)
(Also available as a PDF file 102KB) 
- A profile of HIV testing in Victoria, 1984 to 2004
(Megan SC Lim, Rebecca J Guy, Margaret E Hellard
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health)
(Also available as a PDF file 66KB) 
- Campylobacter outbreak due to chicken consumption at an Australian Capital Territory restaurant
(Andrew P Black, Martyn D Kirk, Geoff Millard)
(Also available as a PDF file 40KB) 
- National Vaccine Safety Workshop: summary and draft recommendations
(Prepared by Glenda Lawrence on behalf of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases)
(Also available as a PDF file 60KB) 
- OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2006
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 36KB) 
- Communicable Diseases Surveillance       
- Highlights for 1st quarter, 2006
(gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases) 
(Also available as a PDF file 31KB)
 - Tables (PDF file 90KB)
The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual 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, meningococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
(Also available as a PDF file 139KB) 
 - Highlights for 1st quarter, 2006
(gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases) 
 
- Overseas briefs
(Also available as a PDF file 34KB) 
Editor: John Walker 
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton
Volume 30 Issue 2, June 2006
This issue is available as a full PDF file (821 KB) or by individual articles below.
- Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2005 
(Simon Firestone, Ian Barr, Paul Roche, John Walker)
(Also available as a PDF file 158KB) 
- Augmentation of influenza surveillance with rapid antigen detection at the point-of-care: results of a pilot study in Tasmania, 2004 
(Kate Turner, Kelly Shaw, David Coleman, Avner Misrachi)
(Also available as a PDF file 33KB) 
- Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2005 
(Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
(Also available as a PDF file 87KB) 
- Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2005 
(Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
(Also available as a PDF file 120KB) 
- Multi-drug resistant Salmonella Java infections acquired from tropical fish aquariums 
(Jennie Musto, Martyn Kirk, Diane Lightfoot, Barry Coombs, Lillian Mwanri )
(Also available as a PDF file 47KB) 
- OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2006 
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 39KB) 
- Hypovolemic shock and metabolic acidosis in a refugee secondary to O1 serotype Vibrio cholerae enteritis
(Luke Chen, Ian Woolley, Kumar Visvanathan, Tony Korman)
(Also available as a PDF file 41KB) 
- Prevalence and control of trachoma in Australia, 1997-2004 
(Donna Mak, Louise O'Neill, Ana Herceg, Helen McFarlane)
(Also available as a PDF file 180KB) 
- A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia: 1 January to 31 March 2006  
(Also available as a PDF file 18KB) 
- Letter to the Editor: The limitation of fever case definitions for avian influenza and SARS 
    
(Also available as a PDF file 18KB) 
- Communicable Diseases Surveillance       
- Highlights for 1st quarter, 2006
(gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases) 
(Also available as a PDF file 28KB)
 - Tables (PDF file 92KB)
The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual 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, meningococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
(Also available as a PDF file 86KB) 
 - Highlights for 1st quarter, 2006
(gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases) 
 
- Overseas briefs
(Also available as a PDF file 27KB) 
Editor: John Walker 
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado
Volume 30 Issue 1, March 2006
This issue is available as a full PDF file (1.9MB) or by individual articles below.
- Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2004: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
(Keflemariam Yohannes, Paul Roche, April Roberts, Conan Liu, Simon Firestone, Mark Bartlett, et al)
(Also available as a PDF file 1.1MB) - Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2004
(Paul Roche, Vicki Krause, Mark Bartlett, David Coleman, Heather Cook, Craig Davis, et al)
(Also available as a PDF file 190KB) - Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2004
(Paul Roche and the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
(Also available as a PDF file 74KB) - Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2004
(Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian, Taryn Crighton, Chris Gilpin, Frank Haverkort, Aina Sievers)
(Also available as a PDF file 59KB) - The BCG vaccine: information and recommendations for use in Australia
(National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
(Also available as a PDF file 39KB) - Guidelines for Australian Mycobacteriology Laboratories
(National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
(Also available as a PDF file 120KB) - Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoea in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2004
(The WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme)
(Also available as a PDF file 81KB) - National Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2004-05
(Carl Kirkwood, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, David Cannan, Ruth Bishop,Graeme Barnes)
(Also available as a PDF file 34KB) - Influenza surveillance in Victoria, 2005
(Joy Turner, James Fielding, Hazel Clothier, Heath Kelly)
(Also available as a PDF file 184KB) - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to December 2005
(Genevieve Klug, Alison Boyd, Victoria Lewis, Samantha Douglass, Rebecca Argent, James Lee, et al)
(Also available as a PDF file 47KB) - OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, 1 October to 31 December 2005
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
(Also available as a PDF file 55KB) - A report from the Communicable Diseases Network  Australia, 1 October to 31 December 2005
(Also available as a PDF file 20KB) - Surveillance Systems reported in CDI, 2006
(Also available as a PDF file 41KB) -  Communicable Diseases Intelligence instructions for authors
(Also available as a PDF file 23KB) -  
    
Communicable diseases surveillance
- Highlights for 4th quarter, 2005 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases) 
        
(Also available as a PDF file 51KB) - Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
(Also available as one PDF file 92KB) - Additional reports
(Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
(Also available as a PDF file 133KB) 
 - Highlights for 4th quarter, 2005 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases) 
        
 
- Overseas briefs
(Also available as a PDF file 28KB) 
Editor: John Walker
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado
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