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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiology reports, Australia, January 2020 – March 2024
For coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiological reports, covering COVID-19 incidence within Australia, please refer to this page.
Never waste a measles outbreak
David N Durrheim || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.62 || Published online: 21/11/2024 Full Text: (PDF 192 KB) (Word 114 KB)New primary production and processing standards developed to reduce foodborne illness risks
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.60 || Published online: 23/10/2024Full Text: (PDF 1.60 MB) (Word 119 KB)
Commentary
Learning from COVID-19: strengthening Australia’s research capacity through preparedness and collaboration
Miranda Z Smith, Janelle Bowden, Linda Cristine, Anthony L Cunningham, John Kaldor, Sharon R Lewin, Andrew Singer, Robyn L Ward, Tania C Sorrell || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.58 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 269 KB) (Word 192 KB)Opportunities to strengthen respiratory virus surveillance systems in Australia: lessons learned from the COVID-19 response
Freya M Shearer, Laura Edwards, Martyn Kirk, Oliver Eales, Nick Golding, Jenna Hassall, Bette Liu, Michael Lydeamore, Caroline Miller, Robert Moss, David J Price, Gerard E Ryan, Sheena Sullivan, Ruarai Tobin, Kate Ward, John Kaldor, Allen C Cheng, James Wood, James M McCaw || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.47 || Published online: 17/07/2024Full Text: PDF 354 KB) (Word 229 KB)
Letters to the Editor
A comparison of post-COVID vaccine myocarditis classification using the Brighton Collaboration criteria versus (United States) Centers for Disease Control criteria: an update
Kevin M Slater, Jim P Buttery, Nigel W Crawford, Daryl R Cheng || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.18 || Published online: 28/03/2024Full Text: (PDF 340 KB) (Word 117 KB)
Original articles
Fresh produce-associated foodborne disease outbreaks in Australia, 2001 to 2017
Joanna G Rothwell, Rhiannon Wallace, Mark Bradbury, Laura Ford, Kathryn Glass, Robyn McConchie, Dee Carter, Martyn D Kirk || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.19 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 563 KB) (Word 345 KB)Validation of a risk stratification tool for SARS-CoV-2 Delta community transmission in the Australian Capital Territory
Alexandra Marmor, Tze Vun Voo, Meru Sheel, Timothy Sloan-Gardner, Nevada Pingault || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.40 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 270 KB) (Word 152 KB)An outbreak of double carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, harbouring NDM-5 and OXA-48 genes, at a tertiary hospital in Canberra, Australia
Malizgani Mhango, Frances Sheehan, Alexandra Marmor, Callum Thirkell, Karina Kennedy || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.50 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 299 KB) (Word 198 KB)Gonococcal infections and risk factors for reinfection: a descriptive and case-case analysis of notifications in the Australian Capital Territory, 2017–2022M
Jill Padrotta, Alexandra Marmor, Nevada Pingault, Davoud Pourmarzi || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.51 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 327 KB) (Word 212 KB)Differential COVID-19 case ascertainment by age and vaccination status in Victoria, Australia: a serosurveillance and record linkage study
Joshua Szanyi, David J Price, Kylie S Carville, Mitch Batty, Sarah Yallop, Suellen Nicholson, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Stacey Rowe, Sheena Sullivan, Vinay Menon, Daniel West, Lakshmi Manoharan, Eliza Copsey, Suman S Majumdar, Brett Sutton, Deborah A Williamson, Jodie McVernon || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.28 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 1.03 MB) (Word 639 KB)
Australian Group on Antimicrobial Research surveillance outcome programs – bloodstream infections and antimicrobial resistance patterns from patients less than 18 years of age, January 2020 – December 2021
Anita Williams, Geoffrey W Coombs, Jan Bell, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, Penelope A Bryant, Anita J Campbell, Louise Cooley, Jon Iredell, Adam D Irwin, Alison Kesson, Brendan McMullan, Morgyn S Warner, Phoebe Williams, Christopher C Blyth || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.32 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 286 KB) (Word 164 KB)
Comorbidities and confusion: addressing COVID-19 vaccine access and information challenges
Katie Attwell, Leah Roberts, Christopher C Blyth || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.33 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 286 KB) (Word 195 KB)
Respiratory diphtheria in the time of Omicron
Annabeth Simpson, Paul Douglas, Jenny Draper, Vitali Sintchenko, Zoe Cutcher, Daniel Ashton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.41 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 413 KB) (Word 796 KB)
Mycoplasma genitalium retrospective audit of Northern Territory isolates from 2022
Kate Proudmore, Manoji Gunathilake, Lucy Crawford, Kevin Freeman, Dimitrios Menouhos, Rob Baird || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.43 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 268 KB) (Word 195 KB)
Outbreak investigation of norovirus gastroenteritis in a childcare facility in Central Queensland, Australia: a household level case series analysis
Connie Schulz, Amanda Wyatt, Jacina Walker, Nicolas Smoll, Emma Field, Gulam Khandaker || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.46 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 467 KB) (Word 506 KB)
Age of hepatitis B e antigen loss in Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous residents of tropical Australia; implications for clinical care
Liana Neldner, Sharna Radlof, Simon Smith, Margaret Littlejohn, Allison Hempenstall, Josh Hanson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.48 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 406 KB) (Word 303 KB)
The effect of COVID-19 public health measures on nationally notifiable diseases in Australia during 2020 and 2021
Anna C Rafferty, Anna Glynn-Robinson, Dharshi Thangarajah, Ben Polkinghorne ||https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.26 || Published online: 17/07/2024Full Text: (PDF 460 KB) (Word 601 KB)
Tracking trends in the Top End: clindamycin and erythromycin resistance in Group A Streptococcus in the Northern Territory, 2012–2023
Joanne Nixon, Jann Hennessey, Rob Baird ||https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.31 || Published online: 17/07/2024Full Text: (PDF 311 KB) (Word 284 KB)
Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: Hepatitis B, 2000–2019
Nicole Sonneveld, Joanne Jackson, Aditi Dey, Stephen Lambert, Katrina Clark, Benjamin Cowie, Kristine Macartney, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.44 || Published online: 24/06/2024Full Text: (PDF 783 KB) (Word 1048 KB)
Pertussis notifications decline in Australia during COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions, 2020–2021
Saskia van der Kooi, Frank Beard, Aditi Dey, Peter McIntyre, Chrissy Imai, Janaki Amin ||https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.24 || Published online: 24/06/2024Full Text: (PDF 466 KB) (Word 282 KB)
Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in Central Queensland, Australia
Emma Gale, Nicolas Smoll, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, Jacina Walker, Michael Kirk, Sunday Pam, Robert Menzies, Gulam Khandaker || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.45 || Published online: 24/06/2024Full Text: (PDF 439 KB) (Word 411 KB)
Outbreak reports
An outbreak of dengue virus type 3 on Mer Island in the Torres Strait, Australia in 2024
A Hempenstall, A Pyke, C Taunton, U Sabatino, S Kaigey, E Pickering, G Ehlers, MO Muzari, J Davis, C Paton, C Taylor, A van den Hurk, G Hewitson, S Schlebusch, J Hanson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.63 || Published online: 18/12/2024 Full Text: (PDF 707 KB) (Word 835 KB)Measles secondary vaccine failure in a childcare setting: an outbreak report
Donna Barnekow, Debbie Neucom, Wendy Tout, Dustylee Williams, Michael J Thomas, Sanmarié Schlebusch, Alyssa Pyke, Madisen S Roser, Isaac Tranter, Amalie Dyda, Colleen L Lau, Nicolas R Smoll || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.61 || Published online: 21/11/2024 Full Text: (PDF 212 KB) (Word 117 KB)Community-led diphtheria vaccination campaign to manage a diphtheria outbreak in a remote Aboriginal community
Allison Hempenstall, Joanne Neville, Caroline Taunton, Valmay Fisher, Vince Connellan, Alice Tayley, Georgina Keys, Josh Hanson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.49 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 278 KB) (Word 196 KB)Yersiniosis outbreaks in Gold Coast residential aged care facilities linked to nutritionally-supplemented milkshakes, January–April 2023
Candice Colbran, Fiona May, Kate Alexander, Ian Hunter, Russell Stafford, Robert Bell, Anne Cowdry, Fiona Vosti, Sharon Jurd, Trudy Graham, Gino Micalizzi, Rikki Graham, Vicki Slinko || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.30 || Published online: 21/08/2024Full Text: (PDF 415 KB) (Word 230 KB)
Investigation and response to an outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y ST-1466 urogenital infections, Australia
MM Lahra, NH Latham, DJ Templeton, P Read, C Carmody, N Ryder, SE Ellis, EF Madden, A Parasuraman, J Wells, V Sheppeard, BH Armstrong, J Holland, S Pendle, N Sherry, L Leong, L Papanicolas, CE Selvey, SJ Van Hal || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.20 || Published online: 10/04/2024Full Text: (PDF 422 KB) (Word 170 KB)
The first confirmed outbreak of chikungunya reported in Timor-Leste, 2024
Filipe de Neri Machado, Anthony DK Draper, Anferida Monteiro Fernandes, Frederico Bosco Alves dos Santos, Marcelo Amaral Mali, Ari J Pereira Tilman, Endang Soares da Silva, Elizabeth Hornay, Antonio Salles de Sousa, Tessa Oakley, Edinha da Cruz, Nevio Sarmento, Maria AV Niha, Ana Fatima Soares, Eva Estrelita Cardoso Gomes, Jose de Deus Alves, Jose Paulo Soares, Joshua R Francis, Jennifer Yan, Merita Antonio Monteiro || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.17 || Published online: 10/04/2024Full Text: (PDF 529 KB) (Word 247 KB)
A brief description of the epidemiology of dengue in Dili, Timor-Leste, 2018–2022
Filipe de Neri Machado, Anthony DK Draper, Frederico Bosco Alves dos Santos, Marcelo Amaral Mali, Ari J Pereira Tilman, Endang Soares da Silva, Noel Gama Soares, Nevio Sarmento, Maria AV Niha, Ana Fatima Soares, Abdoulie Taal, Joshua R Francis, Jennifer Yan, Megge Miller, James Flint || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.16 || Published online: 10/04/2024Full Text: (PDF 359 KB) (Word 286 KB)
Case reports
To B or not to B: how the hepatitis B surveillance case definition can misdirect public health actions
Anna B Pierce, Simon Crouch, Adrian Alexander, Joe Sasadeusz, Edura Jalil, Victor Au Yeung, Aswan Tai, Rhonda L Stuart || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.39 || Published online: 17/07/2024Full Text: (PDF 219 KB) (Word 119 KB)
A severe case of swimmer’s itch in Victoria, Australia with bullous eruption
Michael Sangiorgio, Karen Liu, Lachlan Lau, Charlotte Krones, Adrian Tramontana, James Molton, Alex Nirenberg || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.8 || Published online: 10/04/2024Full Text: (PDF 722 KB) (Word 724 KB)
Surveillance summaries
Public health rapid response in managing COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities: a regional public health unit perspective
Mohammad Rashidul Hashan, Jacina Walker, Margaret Charles, Susie Le Brasse, Danielle Odorico, Nicolas Smoll, Michael Kirk, Robert Booy, Gulam Khandaker || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.36 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 554 KB) (Word 171 KB)Changes in norovirus incidence in Victoria, Australia, 2022: are we back to normal yet after COVID?
Leesa D Bruggink, Bruce Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.29 || Published online: 17/07/2024Full Text: (PDF 253 KB) (Word 202 KB)
Review articles
ATAGI Targeted Review 2023: Vaccination for prevention of influenza in Australia
Chisato Imai, Sanjay Jayasinghe, Jocelynne McRae, Jean Li-Kim-Moy, Clayton Chiu, Kristine Macartney, Penelope Burns, Kristy Cooper, Allen C Cheng, Katherine Gibney, Michelle Giles, Cheryl Jones, Tony Korman, Bette Liu, Nigel W Crawford on behalf of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.25 || Published online: 17/07/2024Full Text: (PDF 547 KB) (Word 316 KB)
Annual reports
Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2023
Monica M Lahra, CR Robert George, Sebastiaan J van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.52 || Published online: 18/12/2024 Full Text: (PDF 527 KB) (Word 280 KB)Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Surveillance Outcome Program (AESOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2023
Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Princy Shoby, Auriane Form, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.56 || Published online: 18/12/2024 Full Text: (PDF 289 KB) (Word 131 KB)Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Surveillance Outcome Program (ASSOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2023
Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Princy Shoby, Sruthi Mamoottil Sudeep, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.57 || Published online: 18/12/2024 Full Text: (PDF 429 KB) (Word 160 KB)Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia annual report, 2021
Catherine Glover, Lucy Deng, Claire Larter, Catherine Brogan, Olivia Richardson, Yuanfei Anny Huang, Elspeth Kay, Kristine Macartney and Nicholas Wood || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.1 || Published online: 24/06/2024Full Text: (PDF 543 KB) (Word 499 KB)
Surveillance of adverse effects following immunisation in Australia, COVID-19 vaccines, 2021
Catherine Glover, Lucy Deng, Claire Larter, Catherine Brogan, Olivia Richardson, Yuanfei Anny Huang, Elspeth Kay, Kristine Macartney and Nicholas Wood || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.2 ||Published online: 24/06/2024Full Text: (PDF 638 KB) (Word 801 KB)
Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program Annual Report, 2022
Celeste M Donato, Susie Roczo-Farkas, Sarah Thomas, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Eleanor A Lyons, Julie E Bines and the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Group || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.27 || Published online: 24/06/2024Full Text: (PDF 386 KB) (Word 274 KB)
Quarterly reports
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2024
Monica M Lahra, Sonya Natasha Hutabarat, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.54 || Published online: 21/11/2024 Full Text: (PDF 195 KB) (Word 122 KB)Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2024
Monica M Lahra, Sonya Natasha Hutabarat, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.53 || Published online: 21/11/2024 Full Text: (PDF 194 KB) (Word 122 KB)Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2023
Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.23 || Published online: 13/05/2024Full Text: (PDF 199 KB) (Word 125 KB)
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2023
Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.22 || Published online: 13/05/2024Full Text: (PDF 199 KB) (Word 124 KB)
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2023
Monica M Lahra, Prashanthi Sai Krishnan and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.21 || Published online: 13/05/2024Full Text: (PDF 199 KB) (Word 122 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 October to 31 December 2023
Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.15 || Published online: 13/05/2024Full Text: (PDF 215 KB) (Word 125 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2023
Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.14 || Published online: 28/03/2024Full Text: (PDF 351 KB) (Word 126 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2023
Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.13 || Published online: 28/03/2024Full Text: (PDF 350 KB) (Word 125 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 January to 31 March 2023
Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.12 || Published online: 28/03/2024Full Text: (PDF 346 KB) (Word 123 KB)
CDI 2024 - Volume 48 Reviewers
The CDI staff wish to thank the following reviewers for their valued assistance throughout the year: Yara-Natalie Abo, Tammy Allen, Nick Anstey, Daniel Ashton, Ei Aung, Hilary Bambrick, Frank Beard, Rodie Brown, Louise Causer, Greg Dore, Anthony Draper, David Durrheim, Amalie Dyda, Krist Ewe, *Parveen Fathima, Mark Ferson, Louise Flood, Francesca Frentiu, Michelle Giles, Tom Gottlieb, Andrew Greenhill, Josh Hanson, Myra Hardy, Michelle Harlock, Jane Hawkey, Allison Hempenstall, Jane Hocking, Kirsty Hope, Lance Jennings, Vanessa Johnston, Sheena Kakar, Gulam Khandaker, Monica Lahra, Stephen Lambert, Karin Leder, Miriam T Levy, Jennifer MacLachlan, Alexandra Marmor, Michelle McPherson, Megge Miller, Anthony Moore, Poonam Mudgil, Johannes Nossent, Clare Nourse, Adelaide Nyinawingeri, Kate Pennington, Grace Phua, Ben Polkinghorne, Jenny Post, Annie Preston-Thomas, Ashleigh Qama, *Amanda Reyes-Veliz, Jenny Robson, Gemma Saravanos, Freya Shearer, Sally Singleton, Jana Sisnowski, Siobhan St George, Michael Staff, Russell Stafford, Megan Staples, Astrid Stark, Caitlin Trenorden, Jane Tuckerman, Mark Veitch, Elvina Viennet, Grant Waterer, Darren Westphal, Alan Wigg, Stephanie Williams, Kirsten Williamson, Trent Yarwood and Megan Young.
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
Deputy Editor: Simon Petrie
Design and Production: Lisa Thompson
Web Content Migration: Dorothy Kass, Ken Vesperman
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ISSN
ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)
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