Communicable Diseases Surveillance: CDI volume 27 issue 2 (2003)

Abstract

Communicable diseases surveillance highlights for 4th quarter, 2002 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmissible diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases), and surveillance outcomes from several reporting series as follows:
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 January to 31 March 2003;
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 January to 31 March 2003;
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2003;
Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU), reporting period 1 January to 30 December 2003;
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2002, assessed as at 31 March 2003;
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 October to 31 December 2002 cohort, assessed as at 31 March 2003;
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2003.