Communicable Diseases Surveillance: CDI volume 32 issue 4 (2008)

Abstract

Includes: Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2008 (gastrointestinal diseases, sexually transmissible infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases);
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 July to 30 September 2008;
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 July to 30 September 2008;
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2008;
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 April to 30 June 2008 cohort, assessed as at 30 September 2008;
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2008;
Meningococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2008;
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2008;
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2008.

In the Australian Childhood Immunisation Coverage quarterly report within this document, there is an error of analysis in the calculated percentages of children immunised at 5 years of age (Table 3). This is addressed in an erratum published in CDI vol. 33 (2009). The PDF for the Erratum is included here.