This article {extract} was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 29 No 1 March 2005 and may be downloaded as a full version PDF from the Table of contents page.
Abbreviations used in this report
ABL Australian bat lyssavirus
ACIR Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
ASPREN Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network
BF Barmah Forest virus
CDI Communicable Diseases Intelligence
CDNA Communicable Diseases Network Australia
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
JE Japanese encephalitis virus
LabVISE Laboratory Virology and Serology Reporting Scheme
MVE Murray Valley encephalitis virus
NNDSS National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
NCHECR National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
NCIRS National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases
NEC Not elsewhere classified
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
NN Not notifiable
PCR Polymerase chain reaction
RR Ross River virus
SD(s) Statistical Division(s)
SLTEC Shiga-like toxin producing Escherichia coli
STI(s) Sexually transmitted infection(s)
TB Tuberculosis
VPD(s) Vaccine preventable disease(s)
VTEC Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli
WHO World Health Organization
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