Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 40 issue 4 December 2016-whole issue

Abstract

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Contents
Editorial
Rise in invasive serogroup W meningococcal disease in Australia 2013-2015

Original articles
Rise in invasive serogroup W meningococcal disease in Australia, 2013-2015

Epidemiology of bacterial toxin-mediated foodborne gastroenteritis outbreaks in Australia, 2001 to 2013

Adverse events following immunisation with bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination: baseline data to inform monitoring in Australia following introduction of new unregistered BCG vaccine

Public health action following an outbreak of toxigenic cutaneous diphtheria in an Auckland refugee resettlement centre

Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: Influenza 2006 to 2015

Short reports
Haycocknema perplexum: an emerging cause of parasitic myositis in Australia

Policy and guidelines
Revised surveillance case definitions: Listeriosis; dengue virus infection

Annual reports
Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme annual report, 2015

Flutracking weekly online community survey of influenza-like illness annual report, 2015

Influenza epidemiology in patients admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2015: the Influenza Complications Alert Network

Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2015

Quarterly reports
OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 July to 30 September 2014

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 1 July to 30 September 2016

Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 cohort, assessed as at 30 June 2016

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 January to 31 March 2016

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2016

Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2016

Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, 1 July to 30 September 2016

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance, 1 April to 30 June 2016

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance, 1 July to 30 September 2016

Indexes
Reviewers for Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2016

Index to Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2016