Available as a full PDF file (985 KB) or by individual articles below.

Contents

Annual reports

• Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2006
  (Kathleen O'Brien, Ian G Barr )
  (Also available as a PDF file 159 KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2006
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  (Also available as a PDF file 94 KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2006
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme) (Also available as a PDF file 90 KB)

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to March 2007
  (Genevieve M Klug, Alison Boyd, Victoria Lewis, Samantha L Douglass, Helene Roberts, Rebecca Argent, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins)
  (Also available as a PDF file 42 KB)

Articles

• Compliance with three simultaneous vaccinations due at the one visit at 12 months of age in Australia
  (Brynley P Hull, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 123 KB)

• Bordetella pertussis PCR positivity, following onset of illness in children under 5 years of age
  (Cheryn M Palmer, Brad McCall, Kari Jarvinen, Michael D Nissen)
  (Also available as a PDF file 98 KB)
  Erratum published in Commun Dis Intell 2007;31:448

• Pertussis epidemiology in Australia over the decade 1995–2005 – trends by region and age group
  (Helen E Quinn, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 268KB)

• Epidemiology of Leptospira weilii serovar Topaz infections in Australia
  (Andrew T Slack, Meegan L Symonds, Michael F Dohnt, Bruce G Corney, Lee D Smythe)
  (Also available as a PDF file 141 KB)

• Q fever cases in the Northern Territory of Australia from 1991 to 2006
  (Anna Ralph, Peter Markey, Rosalie Schultz)
  (Also available as a PDF file 111 KB)

Short reports

• Reduction in invasive meningococcal disease in Queensland: A success for immunisation
  (Vicki G Slinko, Amy Sweeny)
  (Also available as a PDF file 161 KB)

• Meningococcal septicaemia and a case of clinically mild illness
  (Danielle M Esler, Peter R Lewis)
  (Also available as a PDF file 74KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2007
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 110 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 1st quarter, 2007 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 89 KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 112 KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above: HTML files will be available shortly.
    Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
    Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
    Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
    Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
  
  
  
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    (Also available as a PDF file 121 KB)

• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 85 KB)

Other reports

• A celebration of the life of Professor Aileen Plant
  (Also available as a PDF file 71 KB)

• Composition of the Australian Influenza Vaccine for the 2007 season
  (Also available as a PDF file 71 KB)

• National Serology Reference Laboratory, Australia workshop
  (Also available as a PDF file 57 KB)

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Editor: Krissa O'Neil
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton

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Opinions expressed in Communicable Diseases Intelligence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing or the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Data may be subject to revision.