Table of contents - Volume 29 Issue 4, December 2005

This issue is available as a full PDF file (1,398KB) or by individual articles below.

• Communicable Diseases Network Australia National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee annual report 2004–05
  (Conan Liu, Annette K Broom, Nina Kurucz, Peter I Whelan)
  (Also available as a PDF file 345KB)



• Guidelines for the use and interpretation of nucleic acid detection tests for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Australia: A position paper on behalf of the Public Health Laboratory Network
  (David W Smith, John W Tapsall, Gary Lum)
  (Also available as a PDF file 49KB)



• Surveillance of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli in Australia
  (Barry G Combs, Jane CA Raupach, Martyn D Kirk)
  (Also available as a PDF file 123KB)



• Epidemic viral gastroenteritis in Queensland coincides with the emergence of a new norovirus variant
  (Michael J Lyon, Gang Wei, Greg A Smith)
  (Also available as a PDF file 85KB)



• Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 170 in a tertiary paediatric hospital with person-to-person transmission implicated
  (Noore KM Alam, Paul K Armstrong, Oanh TK Nguyen, Alison M Kesson, Terri M Cripps, Stephen J Corbett)
  (Also available as a PDF file 102KB)



• Investigation of a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Hvittingfoss using a web-based case reporting form
  (Christopher J Oxenford, Andrew P Black, Robert J Bell, Sally A Munnoch, Melissa J Irwin, Rachel N Hanson, Rhonda L Owen, and the Outbreak Investigation Team)
  (Also available as a PDF file 32KB)



• OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, July to September 2005
  (The OzFoodNet Working Group)
  (Also available as a PDF file 35KB)



• Epidemiological features and control of an outbreak of scarlet fever in a Perth primary school
  (Kynan T Feeney, Gary K Dowse, Anthony D Keil, Christine Mackaay, Duncan McLellan )
  (Also available as a PDF file 43KB)



• The epidemiology of kuru in the period 1987 to 1995
  (Michael P Alpers for the Kuru Surveillance Team)
  (Also available as a PDF file 345KB)



• Q fever vaccine uptake in South Australian meat processors prior to the introduction of the National Q Fever Management Program
  (Adriana Milazzo, Kathryn B Featherstone, Robert G Hall)
  (Also available as a PDF file 42KB)



• Communicable and vaccine-preventable conditions under surveillance by the APSU: 2004 update
  (Yvonne Zurynski, Paula Cronin, Elizabeth J Elliott)
  (Also available as a PDF file 82KB)



• A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, 1 July to 30 September 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 16KB)



• Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2005
  (Glenda Lawrence, Ian Boyd)
  (Also available as a PDF file 42KB)




• Communicable diseases surveillance

  • Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2005 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine preventable diseases)
    (Also available as a PDF file 133KB)
  
  
  
  • Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
    Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
    Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
    Tables 4 and 5 (LabVISE)
    (Also available as one PDF file 103KB)
  
  
  
  • Additional reports
    (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network, childhood immunisation coverage, gonococcal surveillance, meningococcal surveillance, HIV and AIDS surveillance, National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System)
    (Also available as a PDF file 198KB)
  
  
  
• Overseas briefs
  (Also available as a PDF file 31KB)



• CDI subject index, 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 35KB)



• CDI author index, 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 16KB)



• CDI reviewers 2005
  (Also available as a PDF file 12KB)

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Editor: John Walker
Editorial and Production Staff: Paul Roche, Alison Milton, Patricia Hurtado