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Latest articles
- Professor Mary-Louise McLaws (17 March 1953 – 12 August 2023)
- The impact of the National Shingles Vaccination Program on the epidemiology of herpes zoster among adults ≥ 60 years in Victoria, Australia
- First documented gymnasium cluster of COVID-19 with whole genome sequencing in Australia
- Lessons from the re-emergence of imported measles cases following the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia
- Several confirmed and probable zoonotic cases of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans, Queensland, Australia
- Group B streptococcus in the Northern Territory in 2023: clindamycin down but not out
Publication date: 21 September 2023
2023 Articles
Notices to readers
ATAGI 2023 Annual Statement on Immunisation
Madeline Valeri, Shireen Durrani, Catherine Tran, Clayton Chiu, Kristine K Macartney, Michelle L Giles, Nigel W Crawford on behalf of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.42 || Published online: 27/7/2023Full Text: (PDF 536.84 KB) (Word 375.38 KB)
Editorial
Professor Mary-Louise McLaws (17 March 1953 – 12 August 2023)
Contributions from Jocelyne Basseal, Peter Collignon, Kathy Dempsey, Susan Jain, Raina MacIntyre, Cathryn Murphy, Robyn Richmond, and Sharon Salmon || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.57 || Published online: 21/09/2023Full Text: (PDF 254.55 KB) (Word 119.09 KB)
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
The impact of the National Shingles Vaccination Program on the epidemiology of herpes zoster among adults ≥ 60 years in Victoria, Australia
Madeleine J Marsland, Anna Glynn-Robinson, Rebecca F Gang, Janet Strachan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.56 || Published online: 21/09/2023Full Text: (PDF 630.59 KB) (Word 924.52 KB)
First documented gymnasium cluster of COVID-19 with whole genome sequencing in Australia
Bhavi Ravindran, Elizabeth Gatens, Naru Pal, Vicky Sheppeard, Anna Calik, Kate Alexander, Khizar Ashraf, Alicia Arnott, Vitali Sintchenko, Craig B Dalton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.55 || Published online: 21/09/2023Full Text: (PDF 444.63 KB) (Word 295.41 KB)
Lessons from the re-emergence of imported measles cases following the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia
Madeleine J Marsland, Janet Strachan, Rebecca F Gang, Miriam O’Hara, Nicole M Hughes, Anna Glynn-Robinson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.54 || Published online: 21/09/2023Full Text: (PDF 465.88 KB) (Word 143.5 KB)
Several confirmed and probable zoonotic cases of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans, Queensland, Australia
Vicki G Slinko, Christine JD Guglielmino, Alexandra M Uren, James KG Smith, Deborah Neucom, Nicolas R Smoll, Rikki MA Graham, Ning-Xia Fang, Helen V Smith, Amanda E Armstrong, Alison A Kenny, Janet L Farmer, Catherine A Quagliotto, Amy V Jennison || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.53 || Published online: 21/09/2023Full Text: (PDF 1007.62 KB) (Word 891.51 KB)
Epidemiology of Group A Streptococcal bacteraemia in Hunter New England Local Health District, 2008 to 2019
Kirsten M Williamson, Hemalatha Varadhan, Kylie Taylor, Kristy Crooks, Katie Brett, Charlee Law, Michelle Butler, Trent Butler, Emily Green, Joshua S Davis, Paul Wilson, Tambri Housen, Tony Merritt, David N Durrheim || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.49 || Published online: 24/8/2023Full Text: (PDF 725.49 KB) (Word 1.1 MB)
Socio-environmental and clinical features of invasive group A streptococcal disease in the Northern Territory of Australia
Johanna M Birrell, Rowena Boyd, Bart J Currie, Asanga Abeyaratne, Sandawana William Majoni, Vicki L Krause || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.39 || Published online: 27/7/2023Full Text: (PDF 887.57 KB) (Word 774.19 KB)
Lessons from a COVID-19 outbreak in the disability support sector, Australian Capital Territory, August 2021
Aruna Phabmixay, Ben Polkinghorne, Alexandra Marmor, Nevada Pingault, Timothy S Sloan-Gardner, Martyn D Kirk || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.34 || Published online: 26/06/2023Full Text: (PDF 475.65 KB) (Word 633.48 KB)
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: (PDF 554.05 KB) (Word 163.06 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: (PDF 1.04 MB) (Word 775.96 KB)
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
Group B streptococcus in the Northern Territory in 2023: clindamycin down but not out
Kate Proudmore, Ma Nu Nu Swe, May Leitch, Kim Clayfield, Jann Hennessy, Rob Baird || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.52 || Published online: 21/09/2023Full Text: (PDF 321.56 KB) (Word 120.26 KB)
A low burden of severe illness: the COVID-19 Omicron outbreak in the remote Torres and Cape region of Far North Queensland
Caroline Taunton, Leanne Hawthorn, Rittia Matysek, Marlow Coates, Emma Pickering, Johanna Neville, Josh Hanson, Simon Smith, Allison Hempenstall || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.41 || Published online: 27/7/2023Full Text: (PDF 533.68 KB) (Word 258.93 KB)
Evolving epidemiology of Q fever in Wide Bay
Matthew Roughan, Emma Hodge, Arifuzzaman Khan, Josette Chor || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.36 || Published online: 26/06/2023Full Text: (PDF 356.23 KB) (Word 409.06 KB)
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
Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2022
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.2023.47.44 || Published online: 24/8/2023Full Text: (PDF 702.73 KB) (Word 834.66 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2022
Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan J van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.45 || Published online: 24/8/2023Full Text: (PDF 647.64 KB) (Word 254.6 KB)
Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) Annual Surveillance Report 2022
Suzy M Teutsch, Carlos A Nunez, Anne Morris, Guy D Eslick, and Elizabeth J Elliott, on behalf of Chief Investigators of APSU surveillance studies on communicable disease and complications of communicable disease || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.46 || Published online: 24/8/2023Full Text: (PDF 717.37 KB) (Word 175.62 KB)
Annual immunisation coverage report 2021 - 14 October 2022
Brynley Hull, Alexandra Hendry, Aditi Dey, Julia Brotherton, Kristine Macartney, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.47 || Published online: 24/8/2023Full Text: (PDF 5.02 MB) (Word 6.78 MB)
Report on influenza viruses received and tested by the Melbourne WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza during 2022
Tanya R Diefenbach-Elstob, Presa Chanthalavanh, Monica E Bobbitt, Sook Kwan Brown, Cleve Rynehart, Natalie Spirason, Heidi Peck, Yi-Mo Deng, Clyde Dapat, Kanta Subbarao, Ian G Barr || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.43 || Published online: 27/7/2023Full Text: (PDF 2.27 MB) (Word 2.06 MB)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to 31 December 2022
Christiane Stehmann, Matteo Senesi, Shannon Sarros, Amelia McGlade, Victoria Lewis, Laura Ellett, Daniel Barber, Marion Simpson, Genevieve Klug, Catriona McLean, Colin L Masters, Steven Collins || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.37 || Published online: 26/06/2023Full Text: (PDF 595.51 KB) (Word 840.49 KB)
Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2022
Matthew B Kaye, Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim, Leesa Bruggink, Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.35 || Published online: 26/06/2023Full Text: (PDF 499.03 KB) (Word 648.21 KB)
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)
Extended and multi-year reports
Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2016–2019
Joanne Jackson, Nicole Sonneveld, Harunor Rashid, Larissa Karpish, Seaneen Wallace, Lisa Whop, Cyra Patel, Julia Brotherton, Han Wang, Alexandra Hendry, Brynley Hull, Katrina Clark, Stephen Lambert, Aditi Dey, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.32 || Published online: 15/6/2023Full Text: (PDF 2.64 MB) (Word 626.7 KB)
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: (PDF 403.55 KB) (Word 128.23 KB)
Erratum
Summary of National Surveillance Data on Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Australia, 2016-2018 Final Report - Erratum to Commun Dis Intell (2018) 2022;46. (https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.28)
Cyra Patel, Aditi Dey, Han Wang, Peter McIntyre, Kristine Macartney, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.40 || Published online: 27/7/2023Full Text: (PDF 216.47 KB) (Word 120.13 KB)
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