Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI)

Communicable Diseases Intelligence - Current issue - March 2013

This issue contains annual reports on Australia's national notifiable diseases, arboviral diseases and malaria, tuberculosis, and annual Immunisation Coverage Report, plus articles on ß-lactamases in Salmonella enterica isolated in Australia; paralytic shellfish poisoning in South Eastern Tasmania; and increasing notifications of dengue; as well as guidelines on BCG vaccine; and the regular quarterly data reports.

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Contents

This issue is available as a full PDF file (2586 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Arboviral diseases and malaria in Australia, 2010-11: Annual report of the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee
  Katrina Knope, Peter Whelan, David Smith, Jay Nicholson, Rod Moran, Stephen Doggett, Angus Sly, Michaela Hobby, Nina Kurucz, Phil Wright and the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• Annual Immunisation Coverage Report, 2010
  Brynley Hull, Aditi Dey, Rob Menzies, Peter McIntyre
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• Tuberculosis In Australia: Bacteriologically confirmed Cases And Drug Resistance, 2010
  Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian, Robyn Carter, Peter Jelfs, Terillee Keehner, Aina Sievers
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)

Original articles

• ß-lactamases in Salmonella enterica isolated in Australia
  Gino Micalizzi
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)

Short reports

• Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning in South Eastern Tasmania
  Alison Turnbull, Rosalind Harrison, Scott McKeown
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• Increasing notifications of dengue in Australia related to overseas travel, 1991 to 2012
  Katrina Knope, the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee, Carolein Giele
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)

Surveillance summaries

• Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2013
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)

Policy and guidelines

• The BCG vaccine: information and recommendations for use in Australia
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• Recommended composition of the northern hemisphere influenza vaccine for the 2013-14 season
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2012
  The OzFoodNet Working Group
  (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)

Additional Reports

• National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• Gonococcal Surveillance Australia: Quarter 3, 2012 (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• Australian Childhood Immunisation Coverage (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
• HIV and AIDS surveillance (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)

Administration

• Communicable Diseases Intelligence instructions for authors (Also available as a PDF file 1867 KB)
  

Editor: Margaret Curran
Deputy Editors: Katrina Knope
Editorial and Production Staff:David Opie, Leroy Trapani, Alison Milton

ISSN 1445-4866 Online

Disclaimer

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.