Communicable Diseases Intelligence volume 22 issue 9 - September 1998-whole issue

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Disclaimer: This whole-issue PDF contains one or more 'Policy and Guidelines' items on p. 188, as originally published. The views expressed in each such item are those of the individual authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal or the Australian Centre for Disease Control. While each 'Policy and Guidelines' item was drafted with consideration to the then-available information on the condition(s) addressed within, it may not be complete and may not represent the currently understood best practice for the referenced condition(s). Readers are advised to refer to the most recent guidance on this matter, where such guidance exists and where its authoritativeness can be established. The guidelines contained within this whole-issue PDF do not replace the need for clinical judgment to be exercised for each individual circumstance, nor the necessity for expert advice to be obtained as appropriate.  

Contents

Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 1996
Editor's column
Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 1996. Report of the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network
A case of diphtheria in New Zealand
National Health and Medical Research Council recommendations on diphtheria vaccination
Legionellosis and recent travel to Bali
Sporadic human anthrax in urban Brisbane
Parasites in water
Cryptosporidium in Water Conference
How long should you boil water to make it safe to drink?
Communicable Diseases Intelligence Technical Report Series
Measles Control Campaign update
Typhoid vaccine
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights (meningococcal disease, vaccine preventable diseases)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 22 July to 18 August 1998
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 16 July to 12 August 1998
Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 28 to 31, 1998
National influenza surveillance 1998 (year to date)
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 to 31 March 1998, assessed as at 30 June 1998
Bulletin board
Overseas briefs (anthrax, meningococcal meningitis, cholera/diarrhoea, legionellosis, yellow fever)