Communicable Diseases Surveillance: CDI volume 32 issue 2 (2008)

Abstract

Includes: Highlights for 1st quarter, 2008 (vectorborne diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, other bacterial infections)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 January to 31 March 2008
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 January to 31 March 2008
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2008
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 October to 31 December 2007 cohort, assessed as at 31 March 2008
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, 1 January to 31 March 2008
Meningococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 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.