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This journal is indexed by Index Medicus, Medline and Australasian Medical Index

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Table of Contents - Volume 27, Number 4 - December 2003

Complete issue - December 2003(PDF file 1,098KB)

• Editorial: A strategy for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Australia
  (Rebecca Hundy, Paul Roche)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 24KB)

• National Arboviral and Malaria Surveillance Website
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Strategy for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Australia
  - Also available as a (PDF file 164KB)

• Tuberculosis notification in Australia, 2002
  (Gina Samaan, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer and the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 128KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2002: A report of the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network
  (Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian, William Chew, Chris Gilpin, Frank Haverkort, Greg James, Aina Sievers)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 90KB)

• Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2002
  (Paul Roche, Vicki Krause, Ross Andrews, Louise Carter, David Coleman, Heather Cook, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 202KB)

• Laboratory surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia in 2001 to 2002—implications for vaccine serotype coverage
  (Michael Watson, Kathy Bayley, Jan Bell, Gwendolyn Gilbert, Geoff Hogg, Anthony Keil, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 157KB)

• Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2002
  (WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 55KB)

• Report of the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program 2002-03
  (Carl Kirkwood, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Ruth Clark, Rugh Bishop, Graeme Barnes)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 50KB)

• Surveillance of viral pathogens in Australia: Rotavirus
  (Charlie Blumer, Paul Roche, Carl Kirkwood, Ruth Bishop, Graeme Barnes)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 98KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, 1 July to 30 September 2003
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 52KB)

• Outbreak of Salmonella Potsdam associated with salad dressing at a restaurant
  (Leanne Unicomb, Phillip Bird, Craig Dalton)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 103KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 4 linked to cold set cheesecake
  (James Fielding, Peter Snell, Adriana Milazzo, Letitia Del Fabbro, Jane Raupach)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 28KB)

• Salmonella Typhimurium U290 outbreak linked to a bakery
  (Nola Tomaska, Karin Lalor, Joy Gregory, Heather O'Donnell, Frank Dawood, Craig Williams)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 83KB)

• Investigation of two clusters of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli cases in South Australia
  (Barry Combs, Rolf Wise, Ingrid Tribe, Lillian Mwanri, Jane Raupach)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 59KB)

• Using the national guidelines to manage a meningococcal group C outbreak in a Brisbane boarding school - some discretionary judgements are needed
  (Rodney Davison, Desolie Lovegrove, Linda Selvey, Helen Smith)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 47KB)

• Composition of Australian Influenza Vaccine for the 2004 season
  - Also available as a (PDF file 18KB)

• Reporting of communicable disease conditions under surveillance by the APSU, 1 January to 30 June 2003
  (Compiled by Elizabeth Elliott, Donna Rose)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 30KB)

• Prevention of opportunistic infections in immunosuppressed patients in the tropical Top End of the Northern Territory
  (Joshua Davis, Bart Currie, Dale Fisher, Sarah Huffam, Nicholas Anstey, Richard Price, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 121KB)

• A resurgence of congenital rubella in Australia?
  (Jill Forrest, Margaret Burgess, Tim Donovan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 49KB)

• Festschrift for Professor Margaret Burgess
  - Also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

• Rubella in Australia: can we explain two recent cases of congenital rubella syndrome?
  (Heather Gidding, Margaret Young, Robyn Pugh, Margaret Burgess)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 55KB)

• Identification of Photorhabdus asymbiotica in cases of human infection
  (John Gerrard, Renu Vohra, Graeme Nimmo)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 28KB)

• Surveillance for neuraminidase inhibitor resistance in human influenza viruses from Australia
  (Aeron Hurt, Ian Barr, Christopher Durrant, Robert Shaw, Helen Sjogren, Alan Hampson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 150KB)

• The National Immunisation Committee
  - Also available as a (PDF file 74KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2003 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal disease, vaccine preventable disease, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other bacterial infections)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 104KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions
    NNDSS notifications
    NNDSS notification rates
    LabVISE
    
  • Additional reports (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, HIV and AIDS surveillance, childhood immunisation coverage, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 160KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 63KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Pauline Lamson