Communicable Diseases Intelligence volume 22 issue 10 - October 1998-whole issue

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Disclaimer: This whole-issue PDF contains one or more 'Policy and Guidelines' items on p. 223, 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

Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 1997
Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1997
What is Gonococcus telling us?
Editor's column
Current issues in immunisation (Immunisation of preterm infants)
Measles Control Campaign update
Global eradication of polio
Final report of the Food Regulation Review
Outbreak of Newcastle disease in commercial poultry flocks, NSW
Q fever outbreak in an abattoir in Cooma, NSW
Revision of the infection control guidelines
National reporting of Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) producing Escherichia coli infections and associated syndromes
CDNANZ case definitions for the national surveillance of SLTEC (VTEC), HUS and TTP
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights (meningococcal disease, vaccine preventable diseases, SLTEC infections - HUS and TTP)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 18 August to 16 September 1998
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 13 August to 9 September 1998
Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 32 to 35, 1999
National influenza surveillance 1998 (year to date)
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 1998
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 to 30 April 1998, assessed as at 31 July 1998
Sentinel chicken surveillance program, reporting period August 1998
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 January to 31 March 1998 cohort, assessed as at 31 March 1998
Serious adverse events following vaccination surveillance scheme, reporting period 2 July to 1 September 1998
Bulletin board
Overseas briefs (cholera, typhoid fever)