Communicable Diseases Intelligence volume 22 issue 7 - July 1998-whole issue

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Contents

Pertussis vaccines: past, present and future in Australia
Editor's column
Pertussis: the way it was
Infant botulism - clarification
Meningococcal disease in Australia: 1997 and beyond
Current issues in immunisation (The Measles Control Campaign and immunisation adverse events)
Bulletin board
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights (vaccine preventable diseases, arboviruses, hepatitis A, meningococcal infection, salmonella, respiratory syncytial virus, rotavirus)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 27 May to 23 June 1998
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 21 May to 17 June 1998
Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 21 to 24, 1998
National influenza surveillance 1998 (year to date)
Sentinel chicken surveillance program, reporting period April and May 1998
Serious adverse events following vaccination surveillance scheme, reporting period 28 April to 1 July 1998
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 to 31 January 1998, assessed as at 30 April 1998
Correction: Adverse events following vaccination for the period 16 December 1997 to 27 April 1998
Correction: Percentage of children immunised at 1 year of age, preliminary results by disease and State for the birth cohort 1 July 1996 to 30 September 1996; assessment date 30 September 1997
Overseas briefs (enterovirus, cholera)