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Table of Contents - Volume 27, 2003

Number 1 - 1st quarter | Supplement - Antimicrobial resistance | Number 2 - 2nd quarter | Number 3 - 3rd quarter | Number 4 - 4th quarter

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Volume 27 Number 4 - 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

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Volume 27 Number 3 - September 2003 (PDF file 1,098KB)

• Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation: Australia, 2000–2002
  (Glenda Lawrence, Robert Menzies, Margaret Burgess, Peter McIntyre, Nicholas Wood, Ian Boyd, Patrick Purcell, David Isaacs)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 191KB)

• Progress towards eliminating Hib in Australia: An evaluation of Haemophilus influenzae type b prevention in Australia, 1July 1993 to 30 June 2000
  (Peter Horby, Robin Gilmour, Han Wang, Peter McIntyre)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 225KB)

• Surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease in Queensland, 2002
  (Robyn E Pugh, Helen Smith, Margaret Young)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 240KB)

• Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2002
  (Bruce R Thorley, Kerri Anne Brussen, Vicki Stambos, Heath Kelly)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 92KB)

• Estimating immunisation coverage: is the 'third dose assumption' still valid?
  (Brynley P Hull, Glenda L Lawrence, C Raina MacIntyre, Peter B McIntyre)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 92KB)

• Invasive pneumococcal disease among children in Victoria
  (Min Liu, Ross Andrews, Joanne Stylianopoulos, Catherine Ferreira, Geoff Hogg, Nyree Pyper)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 99KB)

• Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Program in Australia, July 2002 to June 2003
  (Annette K Broom)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 81KB)

• Gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis incidence in the Kimberley
  (Donna B Mak, Lewis J Marshall)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 117KB)

• An assessment of the Roche Amplicor® Chlamydia trachomatis/Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiplex PCR assay in routine diagnostic use on a variety of specimen types
  (David E Leslie, Franca Azzato, Norbert Ryan, Janet Fyfe)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 109)

• An outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infection among conference delegates
  (Jane C A Raupach, Rebecca L Hundy)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 95KB)

• Dengue in north Queensland, 2002
  (Jeffrey N Hanna, Scott A Ritchie, Susan L Hills, Alyssa T Pyke, Brian L Montgomery, Ann R Richards, John P Piispanen)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 131KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 99 linked to contaminated bakery piping bags
  (Ingrid G Tribe, Sharon Hart, David Ferrall, Rod Givney)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 83KB)

• BEACH –Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health: a continuous national study of general practice activity
  - Also available as a (PDF file 66KB)

• Letter to the Editor: Human infestation with birds mites in Wollongong
  - Also available as a (PDF file 57KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2003 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmissible diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 151KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE) (PDF file 97KB)
    
    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 142KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 71KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado, Pauline Lamson

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Volume 27 Number 2 - June 2003 (PDF file 2,586KB)

• Editorial: Introduction of the National Meningococcal C Vaccination Program
  (Natalie J Cohen)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 44KB)

• Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2002
  (Keflemariam Yohannes, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Alan Hampson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 406KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2001
  (Richard Lumb, Ivan Bastian, David Dawson, Chris Gilpin, Frank Haverkort, Greg James, Aina Sievers)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 126KB)

• National atypical mycobacteria survey, 2001
  (Frank Haverkort)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 93KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2002
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 125KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2002
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 204KB)

• Foodborne disease in Australia: incidence, notifications and outbreak. Annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2002
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 855KB)

• An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with an animal nursery at a regional fair
  (Rosie Ashbolt, David Coleman, Avner Misrachi, Joe Conti, Martyn Kirk)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 116KB)

• A study of foodborne pathogens: Campylobacter, Listeria, and Yersinia, in faeces from slaughter-age cattle and sheep in Australia
  (Graham Bailey, Barbara Vaneslow, Michael Horitzky, Steven Hum, Graeme Eamens, Paul Gill, et al.)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 152KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 135a in a child care centre
  (Bradley McCall, Robert Bell, Annette Neill, Gino Micalizzi, Gregory Vakaci, Christopher Towner)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 69KB)

• Human infestation with bird mites in Wollongong
  (Charles Watson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 48KB)

• An assessment of the implementation of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccination program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait infants in North Queensland
  (Jeffrey Hanna, Ruth Bullen, Claire Ziegler, Tanya Akee, Brigitte Dostie, Kathy Lort-Phillips)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 60KB)

• Prevalence of markers of Q fever exposure in the Kimberley, Western Australia
  (Donna Mak, David Fry, Max Bulsara)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 90KB)

• Melioidosis in Northern Australia, 2001-02
  (Allen Cheng, Jeffrey Hanna, Robert Norton, Susan Hills, Josh Davis, Vicki Krause, Gary Dowse, Tim Inglis, Bart Currie)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 105KB)

• The Australia Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
  - Also available as a (PDF file 41KB)

• Who reads what in CDI? The 2002 readership survey
  (Amanda Jennings, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 102KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 4th quarter, 2002 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmissible diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 189KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE) (PDF file 196KB)
    
    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 128KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado, Pauline Lamson

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Volume 27 SUPPLEMENT: Antimicrobial resistance in Australia - MAY 2003 (PDF file 1295KB)

• Editorial: Antimicrobial resistance in Australia
  (Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 92KB)

• Introduction: Progress in the development of a national antibiotic resistance management program
  (Alexandra Geue)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 179KB)

• Regulation of veterinary antibiotics in Australia
  (Tim Dyke)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 135KB)

• Improving antibiotic use: 25 years of antibiotic guidelines and related initiatives
  (Ken Harvey, Jonathon Dartnell, Mary Hemming)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 124KB)

• Active promotion of antibiotic guidelines: an intensive program
  (Susan Tiley, Jennifer MacDonald, Paula Doherty, John K Ferguson, John E Ferguson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 159KB)

• State-wide surveillance of in-hospital antimicrobial utilisation in South Australia
  (Catherine Dollman, Celia Cooper)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 178KB)

• Restriction of third generation cephalosporin use reduces the incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in hospitalised patients
  (Claudia Thomas, Thomas Riley)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 129KB)

• Changing GPs' antibiotic prescribing: a randomised controlled trial
  (Eileen Wilson, Diruba Nasrin, Keith Dear, Robert Douglas)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 170KB)

• Antibiotic prescribing for upper repiratory-tract infections in primary care
  (Craig A Patterson, Judith M Mackson, Lynn M Weekes)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 119KB)

• Consumer activities on antimicrobial resistance in Australia
  (Jan Donovan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 126KB)

• Fifteen years of surveillance by the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR)
  (Graeme R Nimmo, Jan M Bell, Peter J Collignon)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 191KB)

• Australian hospital morbidity data on antibiotic resistance
  (Jenny Hargreaves, Jenny Kok)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 131KB)

• SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program Asia-Pacific region and South Africa
  (Jan Bell, John Turnidge)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 166KB)

• TSN®Database Australia, a new tool to monitor antimicrobial resistance in Australia
  (John Turnidge, Laurence R McCarthy, Ronald N Master, Douglas E Kepner, James Weslock)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 122KB)

• Monitoring antimicrobial resistance for public health action
  (John Tapsall)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 156KB)

• Ciprofloxacin resistance emerges in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Victoria, 1998 to 2001
  (Mark G K Veitch, Julia M Griffith, Melissa L Morgan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 128KB)

• Antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter jejuni isolated from humans in the Hunter Region, New South Wales
  (Hemant Sharma, Leanne Unicomb, Wendy Forbes, Steve Djordjevic, Mary Valcanis, Craig Dalton, John Ferguson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 183KB)

• Low levels of fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli. A five-year trend in Australia measured through the use of TSN® database Australia
  (John Turnidge, Laurence R McCarthy, Ronald N Master, Douglas E Kepner)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 120KB)

• Surveillance of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in South Australia
  (Celia Cooper, Meredith A Ochota)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 153KB)

• Screening and electronic labelling of ward contacts of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faelcium vanB carriers during a single-strain hospital outbreak and after discharge from hospital
  (John W Pearman, Peta L Perry, Frank P Kosaras, Charles R Douglas, Rosie C Lee, Allison Peterson, C Terri Orrel, Claire H Khinsoe, Christopher H Heath, Keryn J Christiansen)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 135KB)

• Polymerase chain reaction screening for integrons can be used to complement resistance surveillance programs
  (Louisa A Jones, Christopher J McIver, William D Rawlinson, Peter A White)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 176KB)

• Towards a national surveillance program for antimicrobial resistance in animals and animal-derived food
  (Jonathan Webber, Angelo Valois)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 133KB)

• Surveillance for antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli in food animals
  (David Jordan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 196KB)

• Antibiotic resistance in animals
  (Mary D Barton, Rachael Pratt, Wendy S Hart)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 137KB)

• Surveillance for antibiotic resistance in veterinary pathogens from the perspective of a regional diagnostic laboratory
  (Carol P Stephens)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 126KB)

• Australian Council on Healthcare Standards infection control clinical indicators
  (Kay L Richards, Dolly Olesen, Michael Whitby)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 85KB)

• Antibiotic resistance and the potential impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines
  (Ron Dagan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 179KB)

• Non-antibiotic therapies for infectious diseases
  (Christine F Carson, Thomas V Riley)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 135KB)

• Reviewers for CDI supplement 2003 on antimicrobial resistance
  - Also available as a (PDF file 76KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado

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Volume 27 Number 1 - March 2003 (PDF file 1,895KB)

• Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2001: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (Charlie Blumer, Paul Roche, Jenean Spencer, Ming Lin, Alison Milton,Chris Bunn, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 1,118KB)

• Composition of the Australia influenza vaccine for the 2003 season
  - Also available as a (PDF file 24KB)

• Pneumococcal disease in Australia: current status and future challenges
  (Paul Roche, Peter McIntyre, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 71KB)

• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, July to September 2002
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 78KB)

• Mumps and rubella in Victoria, 1993 to 2000
  (Rebecca Guy, Ross Andrews, Priscilla Robinson, Stephen Lambert)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 105KB)

• Letter to the Editor. Varicella surveillance: simpler than you think?
  - Also available as a (PDF file 67KB)

• Uptake of influenza vaccine among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island adults in north Queensland
  (Jeffery Hanna, Bradley McCulloch)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 52KB)

• Variability of larval identification characters of exotic Aedes albopictus (Skuse) intercepted in Darwin, Northern Territory
  (Gisela Lamache, Peter Whelan)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 71KB)

• Rainfall and vector mosquito Numbers as risk indicators for mosquito-borne disease in Central Australia
  (Peter Whelan, Susan Jacups, Lorna Melville, Annette Broom, Bart Currie, Vicki Krause, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 81KB)

• Surveillance of viral pathogens in Australia: respiratory syncytial virus
  (Paul Roche, Stephen Lambert, Jenean Spencer)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 107KB)

• Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network
  (Ian Wilson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 33KB)

• Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2003
  - Also available as a (PDF file 84KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Highlights for 4th quarter, 2002 (gastrointestinal disease, vectorborne diseases, other bacterial infections, other non-notifiable diseases, LabVISE)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 88KB)
  
  
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE) (PDF file 77KB)
    
    The tables are available as a full PDF file above or as individual HTML files below.
    NNDSS reporting jurisdictions and NNDSS notifications
    notification rates
    LabVISE
    LabVISE continued
  
  
  • Additional reports (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, gonococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, childhood immunisation coverage, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 128KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 102KB)

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Editor: Jenean Spencer
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Lynne Hawker, Patricia Hurtado