Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 39 issue 2 June 2015-whole issue

Abstract

Disclaimer: This whole-issue PDF contains one or more 'Policy and Guidelines' items on pp. E312–318, as originally published. The views expressed in each such item are those of the individual authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal or the Australian Centre for Disease Control. While each 'Policy and Guidelines' item was drafted with consideration to the then-available information on the condition(s) addressed within, it may not be complete and may not represent the currently understood best practice for the referenced condition(s). Readers are advised to refer to the most recent guidance on this matter, where such guidance exists and where its authoritativeness can be established. The guidelines contained within this whole-issue PDF do not replace the need for clinical judgment to be exercised for each individual circumstance, nor the necessity for expert advice to be obtained as appropriate.  

Contents

Original articles
Supplemental use of an interferon-gamma release assay in a state-wide tuberculosis contact tracing program in Victoria: a six-year review

Short reports
Interim estimates of male human papillomavirus vaccination coverage in the school-based program in Australia

Legionella pneumophila: probable transmission from a contaminated respiratory device

Influenza outbreak preparedness: lessons from outbreaks in residential care facilities in 2014

Annual reports
Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2013

Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2012 and 2013

Monitoring the incidence and causes of diseases potentially transmitted by food in Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2011

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2009 and 2010

Quarterly reports

OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 July to 30 September 2013

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 1 January to 31 March 2015

Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 July to 30 September cohort, assessed as at December 2014

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2014

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 January to 31 March 2015

Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2015

Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, 1 January to 31 March 2015

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance Australia, 1 October to 31 December 2014
Rachel de Kluyver for the Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance Australia, 1 January to 31 March 2015

New surveillance case definition: Highly pathogenic avian influenza

Revised surveillance case definitions:
hepatitis B - unspecifed
hepatitis B - newly acquired
hepatitis E
syphilis - congenital and
infectious syphilis