Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiology reports, Australia, 2020–2023
For coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiological reports, covering COVID-19 incidence within Australia, please refer to this page.
Letters to the Editor
Characterisation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates in the Northern Territory of Australia
Matthew Howes, Dimitrios Menouhos, Stefanos Christofis, Jann Hennessy, Rob Baird || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.31 || Published online: 25/05/2023Full Text: (PDF 386.47 KB) (Word 318.85 KB)
A comparison of post-COVID vaccine myocarditis classification using the Brighton Collaboration criteria versus Centre for Disease Control criteria
Tessa R Marshall, Silja Schrader, Laura Voss, Jim P Buttery, Nigel W Crawford, Daryl R Cheng || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.2 || Published online: 19/01/2023Full Text: (PDF 259.11 KB) (Word 5.34 MB)
Staphylococcus lugdunensis and coagulase-negative staphylococci species characterisation in a tropical climate
Matthew Howes, Rob Baird || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.3 || Published online: 19/01/2023Full Text: (PDF 269.25 KB) (Word 117.19 KB)
Original articles
Cohorting children in a childcare setting: a strategy to reduce SARS-CoV-2 Delta transmission, August-September 2021
Yasmin Lisson, Alexandra Marmor, Algreg Gomez, Robyn Hall, Amy Elizabeth Parry, Rose Wright, Aparna Lal || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.22 || Published online: 27/4/2023Full Text: (PDF 867.48 KB) (Word 764.41 KB)
Epidemiology of syphilis in the Nepean and Blue Mountains Local Health District between 1 October 2009 and 30 September 2019
Sheena R Kakar, George Truman, Jane Thomas, Eva YH Jackson, Bradley L Forssman || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.17 || Published online: 23/3/2023Full Text: (PDF 497.24 KB) (Word 236.37 KB)
Identifying a more severe emergent COVID-19 variant using Emergency Departments’ routinely collected clinical measures
Adelaide Nyinawingeri, Michael Staff || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.16 || Published online: 23/3/2023Full Text: (PDF 401.35 KB) (Word 129.15 KB)
Wave of COVID-19 outbreaks in Gold Coast residential aged care facilities after easing travel restrictions into Queensland
Candice Colbran, Fiona May, Fiona Vosti, Tracy Bladen, Andre Wattiaux, Vicki Slinko || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.15 || Published online: 23/3/2023Full Text: (PDF 639.02 KB) (Word 479.02 KB)
SMS reminders increase on-time vaccination in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants
Jane L Manderson, Nicolas R Smoll, Dianne L Krenske, Lucinda Nedwich, Latoya Harbin, Margaret G Charles, Amanda Wyatt, Connie N Schulz, Jacina Walker, Gulam M Khandaker || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.13 || Published online: 23/3/2023Full Text: (PDF 580.53 KB) (Word 320.25 KB)
A foodborne outbreak of campylobacteriosis at a wedding – Melbourne, Australia, 2022
Jane McAllister, Joy Gregory, Jim Adamopoulos, Madeleine Walsh, Anastasia Stylianopoulos, Anna-Lena Arnold, Russell Stafford, Patiyan Andersson, Tony Stewart || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.10 || Published online: 28/02/2023Full Text: (Word 163.06 KB) (PDF 554.05 KB)
Interrupted time series segmented regression analysis for detecting waterborne disease outbreaks by syndromic surveillance
Aidan Yuen, Davoud Pourmarzi, Suzie Sarkis, Carmela Luisetto, Kamal Khatri, Angie Bone, Jim Black || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.5 || Published online: 28/02/2023Full Text: (Word 775.96 KB) (PDF 1.04 MB)
Serology study of healthcare workers following a hospital-based outbreak of COVID-19 in North West Tasmania, Australia, 2020
Michelle McPherson, Nicola Stephens, Kylie J Smith, M Therese Marfori, Meru Sheel, Louise Cooley, Belinda McEwan, Mark Veitch, Fay H Johnston || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.6 || Published online: 19/01/2023Full Text: (PDF 417.44 KB) (Word 133.62 KB)
Short reports
Using silent area analysis to inform a COVID-19 public health response in Hunter New England, regional New South Wales
Michelle Butler, Benjamin Elton, David Durrheim || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.24 || Published online: 27/4/2023Full Text: (PDF 1.39 MB) (Word 872.41 KB)
The epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic in the small, low-resource country of Timor-Leste, January 2020 – June 2022
Maria AV Niha, Anthony DK Draper, Odete da Silva Viegas, Rui M de Araujo, Josefina C Joao, Endang da Silva, Ismail Barreto, Nevio Sarmento, Tessa Oakley, Filipe de Neri Machado, Nicholas SS Fancourt, Ian Marr, Liliana N dos Santos Fernandes, Noemia Martins, Paul Arkell, Ari JP Tilman, Benjamin Dingle, Carlito C Freitas, Partha S Bhowmick, Sarah Sheridan, Benjamin P Howden, Jennifer Yan, Joshua R Francis, Nelson Martins || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.1 || Published online: 19/01/2023Full Text: (PDF 542.8 KB) (Word 5.45 MB)
Review Articles
ATAGI Targeted Review 2022: Vaccination for prevention of herpes zoster in Australia
Yuanfei Anny Huang, Jean Li-Kim-Moy, Sanjay Jayasinghe, Clayton Chiu, Kristine Macartney, Bette Liu, Penelope Burns, Michelle Giles, Nigel Crawford on behalf of ATAGI || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.21 || Published online: 27/4/2023Full Text: (PDF 665.81 KB) (Word 413.94 KB)
ATAGI Targeted Review 2021: the national COVID-19 vaccination program
Sanjay Jayasinghe, Cyra Patel, Lucy Armstrong, Clayton Chiu, Kristine Macartney, Katie Flanagan, Katherine Gibney, Michelle Giles, Nigel Crawford, Allen Cheng, Chris Blyth on behalf of ATAGI || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.20 || Published online: 27/4/2023Full Text: (PDF 1.05 MB) (Word 760.56 KB)
Quarterly reports
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 October to 31 December 2022
Monica M Lahra, Siobhan M Hurley, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.30 || Published online: 25/05/2023Full Text: (PDF 272.51 KB) (Word 145.32 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2022
Monica M Lahra, Siobhan M Hurley, Sanghamitra Ray and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.29 || Published online: 25/05/2023Full Text: (PDF 267.67 KB) (Word 143.32 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2022
Monica M Lahra, Siobhan Hurley, Sanghamitra Ray and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.28 || Published online: 25/05/2023Full Text: (PDF 263.39 KB) (Word 145.51 KB)
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2022
Monica M Lahra, Siobhan M Hurley and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.23 || Published online: 27/4/2023Full Text: (PDF 246.99 KB) (Word 120.21 KB)
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2022
Monica M Lahra, Sanghamitra Ray and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.4 || Published online: 19/01/2023Full Text: (PDF 256.3 KB) (Word 118.02 KB)
Annual reports
FluTracking: Weekly online community-based surveillance of influenza-like illness in Australia, 2019 Annual Report
Sandra J Carlson, Reilly J Innes, Zachary L Howard, Zoe Baldwin, Michelle Butler, Craig B Dalton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.14 || Published online: 23/3/2023Full Text: (PDF 903.26 KB) (Word 1.46 MB)
Multi-year reports
Surveillance summary
The utility of empirical mupirocin for eradication of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation in Far North Queensland, Australia
Isabel Guthridge, Stuart Campbell, Simon Smith, Josh Hanson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.9 || Published online: 28/02/2023Full Text: (PDF 354.51 KB) (Word 124.32 KB)
Policy and guidelines
New and revised surveillance case definitions approved by the Communicable Diseases Network Australia since 1 January 2021
|| https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.11 || Published online: 28/02/2023Full Text: (PDF 186.36 KB) (Word 136.13 KB)
The use of whole genome sequencing for tuberculosis public health activities in Australia: a joint statement of the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee and Communicable Diseases Genomics Network
Ellen J Donnan, Ben J Marais, Chris Coulter, Justin Waring, Ivan Bastian, Deborah A Williamson, Norelle L Sherry, Katherine Bond, Vitali Sintchenko, Ella M Meumann, Kristy Horan, Louise Cooley, and Justin T Denholm, for the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee and the Communicable Diseases Genomics Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.8 || Published online: 28/02/2023Full Text: (Word 128.23 KB) (PDF 403.55 KB)
Editorial team
The editorial team consists of the editor, deputy editor, and a designer. The editorial team is supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB). Details of the EAB's then-current composition can be found within any article published in CDI during this year. The EAB's present-day composition, and a description of the role of the EAB, is detailed on CDI's front page.
Editor: Christina Bareja, Emily Harper and Noel Lally
Deputy Editor: Simon Petrie
Design and Production: Kasra Yousefi
Correspondence
Correspondence should be sent to: cdi.editor@health.gov.au
ISSN
ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)
Disclaimer
Opinions expressed in Communicable Diseases Intelligence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care or the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Data may be subject to revision.