Communicable Diseases Surveillance: CDI volume 30 issue 2 (2006)

Abstract

Erratum: Page 253 of the Highlights incorrectly referred to “...the National meningococcal C Vaccination Program which commenced in 2003 and completed vaccination of all under 19-year-olds by the end of 2004.”
It has been brought to our attention that the Program has not been completed in some Australian states and territories and that there are no accurate data on the proportion of under 19-year-olds who were vaccinated, although data are available on the vaccination coverage in under 7-year-olds through the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register.
We apologise for this misleading statement.

Communicable diseases surveillance outcomes from several reporting series as follows:

Highlights for 1st quarter, 2006 (gastrointestinal illnesses, sexually transmissible infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, other bacterial infections);
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 January to 31 March 2006;
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 January to 31 March 2006;
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2006;
Meningococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2006;
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2005, assessed as at 31 March 2006;
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 October to 31 December 2005 cohort, assessed as at 31 March 2006;
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2006.