Volume 32 Number 4, December 2008

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1,039 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Annual report: Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2007
  (Glenda Lawrence, Michael S Gold, Richard Hill, Shelley Deeks, Amy Glasswell, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 275 KB)

• Trachoma surveillance annual report, 2007
  (Betty Tellis, Jill E Keeffe, Hugh R Taylor)
  (Also available as a PDF file 235 KB)

• Monitoring the incidence and causes of diseases potentially transmitted by food in Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet Network, 2007
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 213 KB)

• Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2007/08
  (Carl D Kirkwood, David Cannan, Karen Boniface, Ruth F Bishop, Graeme L Barnes, and the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 93 KB)

• Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit annual report, 2007
  (Yvonne A Zurynski, Deepika Mahajan, Elizabeth J Elliott)
  (Also available as a PDF file 137 KB)

Articles

• Prospective surveillance of excess mortality due to influenza in New South Wales: feasibility and statistical approach
  (David J Muscatello, Patricia M Morton, Ingrid Evans, Robin Gilmour)
  (Also available as a PDF file 175 KB)

• Influenza immunisation of doctors at an Australian tertiary hospital: immunisation rate and factors contributing to uptake
  (Jonathan Kaufman, Joshua Davis, Vicki Krause)
  (Also available as a PDF file 97 KB)

• Pertussis in infants: how to protect the vulnerable?
  (Lai-man R Chuk, Stephen B Lambert, Meryta L May, Frank H Beard, Theo P Sloots, Christine E Selvey, Michael D Nissen)
  (Also available as a PDF file 110 KB)

Surveillance summary

• Interim estimates of human papillomavirus vaccination coverage in the school-based program in Australia
  (Julia ML Brotherton, Shelley L Deeks, Sue Campbell-Lloyd, Avner Misrachi, Irene Passaris, Karen Peterson, Helen Pitcher, Megan Scully, Maureen Watson, Rosalind Webby)
  (Also available as a PDF file 96 KB)

Short reports

• An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens and the enforcement of food safety standards
  (Megan K Young, Peta Smith, Jack Holloway, Rod P Davison)
  (Also available as a PDF file 95 KB)

• Recurring outbreaks of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 135 associated with the consumption of products containing raw egg in Tasmania
  (Nicola Stephens, David Coleman, Kathleen Shaw)
  (Also available as a PDF file 85 KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 July to 30 September 2008
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 97 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2008 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 120 KB)
    
    
  • Tables (PDF file 99 KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above and as HTML files below
    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, meningococcal surveillance)
    (Also available as a PDF file 203 KB)

• Overseas brief
  (Also available as a PDF file 80 KB)

Administration

• The 2009 Communicable Disease Control Conference
  (Also available as a PDF file 49 KB)

Indexes

• CDI subject index, 2008
  (Also available as a PDF file 71 KB)

• CDI author index, 2008
  (Also available as a PDF file 55 KB)

• CDI reviewers 2008
  (Also available as a PDF file 45 KB)

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Editor: Ian McKay
Editorial and Production Staff:Conan Liu, Alison Milton

ISSN 1445-4866 Online

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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.