This article {extract} was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 31 No 1 March 2007 and may be downloaded as a full version PDF from the Table of contents page.
Abbreviations used in this report
ABL Australian bat lyssavirusAIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AFP Acute flaccid paralysis
AGSP Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
ASPREN Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network
BFV Barmah Forest virus
CDI Communicable Diseases Intelligence
CDNA Communicable Diseases Network Australia
CSF Cerebrospinal fluid
DENV Dengue virus
DoHA Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
DSS Dengue shock syndrome
DTP Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine
HBV Hepatitis B virus
Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b
HIV Human immunodeficiency virus
HPAIH Highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans
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
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LabVISE Laboratory Virology and Serology Reporting Scheme
MIC Minimum inhibitory concentration
MMR Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine
MVE Murray Valley encephalitis virus
NNDSS National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
NCHECR National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
NEC Not elsewhere classified
NIP National Immunisation Program
NN Not notifiable
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
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