Contents

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1600 KB) or by individual articles below.

Annual reports

• Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific and South East Asian Regions, 2007–2008
  (The WHO Western Pacific and South East Asian Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programmes)
  (Also available as a PDF file 181 KB)

• Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2008
  (Marlena Kaczmarek, Rhonda Owen, Ian G Barr)
  (Also available as a PDF file 885 KB)

Peer-reviewed articles

• Impact of faxed health alerts on the preparedness of general practitioners during communicable disease outbreaks
  (Alexander Rosewell, Mahomed Patel, Kerri Viney, Andrew Marich, Glenda L Lawrence)
  (Also available as a PDF file 157 KB)

• An evaluation of the Australian National Serosurveillance Program
  (Andrew Jardine, Shelley L Deeks, Mahomed S Patel, Robert I Menzies, Gwedolyn L Gilbert, Peter B McIntyre)
  (Also available as a PDF file 152 KB)

• The impact of pre-departure screening and treatment on notifications of malaria in refugees in south-east Queensland
  (Megan K Young, Bradley J McCall, Karen Heel)
  (Also available as a PDF file 130 KB)

• A large point-source outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 9 linked to a bakery in Sydney, March 2007
  (Trish Mannes, Leena Gupta, Adam Craig, Alexander Rosewell, Clancy Aimers McGuinness, Jennie Musto, Craig Shadbolt, Brian Biffin)
  (Also available as a PDF file 172 KB)

Surveillance summaries

• Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than seven years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2009
  (Deepika Mahajan, Rob Menzies, Ilnaz Roomiani, Glenda Lawrence)
  (Also available as a PDF file 152 KB)

Short reports

• An outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infection associated with a school camp
  (Bradley J McCall, Vicki G Slinko, Helen V Smith, Karen Heel, Terry H Culleton, Virgil R Kelk, Russell J Stafford)
  (Also available as a PDF file 117 KB)

• Viraemic importations of dengue into north Queensland, 2009
  (Jeffrey N Hanna, Ann R Richards, Juliet V Esmonde, Steven Donohue, Jan L Humphreys, Alyssa T Pyke, Carmel T Taylor)
  (Also available as a PDF file 116 KB)

Quarterly reports

• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 October to 30 December 2009
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 160 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  
  • Tables (PDF file 141 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)
    
    
    
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance)
    (Also available as a PDF file 188 KB)

• Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2010
  (Also available as a PDF file 114 KB)

• Communicable Diseases Intelligence instructions for authors
  (Also available as a PDF file 103 KB)

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Editor: Ian McKay
Editorial and Production Staff:Alison Milton, Leah Newman, Lance Sanders, Colette O'Neill

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.