This article {extract} was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 30 No 1 March 2006 and may be downloaded as a full version PDF from the Table of contents page.

Abbreviations used in this report

AFP Acute flaccid paralysis

AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

AGSP Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme

ASPREN Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network

ASVS Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule

BFV Barmah Forest virus

CDI Communicable Diseases Intelligence

CDNA Communicable Diseases Network Australia

DENV Dengue

DSS Dengue Shock Syndrome

DoHA Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b

HIV Human immunodeficiency virus

HUS Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

ICD10-AM International Classification of Diseases, version 10, Australian Modification

IPD Invasive pneumococcal disease

JEV Japanese encephalitis virus

KUNV Kunjin virus

LabVISE Laboratory Virology and Serology Reporting Scheme

MMR Measles-mumps-rubella

MVEV Murray Valley encephalitis virus

NAQS Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy

NCHECR National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research

NEC Not elsewhere classified

NN Not notifiable

NNDSS National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

NPA Northern peninsula area

PCR Polymerase chain reaction

RRV Ross River virus

SARS Severe acute-respiratory syndrome

SLTEC Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli

STI(s) Sexually transmissible infection(s)

TB Tuberculosis

VPD(s) Vaccine preventable disease(s)

VTEC Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli

WHO World Health Organization