Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 39 issue 4 December 2015-whole issue

Abstract

Contents
Original articles
Was infectious syphilis being misclassified in remote Australian outbreaks? Evidence that informed modification of the national case definition

Treatment of latent tuberculosis in migrants to Victoria

Surveillance summaries
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System surveillance report: Sexually transmissible infections in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Policy and guidelines
An Australian guideline on the diagnosis of overseas-acquired Lyme disease/borreliosis

Policy recommendation: latent tuberculosis infection screening and treatment in children in immigration detention

Revised surveillance case definitions
Barmah Forest virus infection
Ross River virus infection
Congenital rubella
Salmonellosis

New surveillance case definition
paratyphoid

Annual reports
Influenza viruses received and tested by the Melbourne WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza annual report, 2014

Quarterly reports
OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2014

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 1 July to 30 September 2015

Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015, assessed as at 30 June 2015

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2015

Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2015

Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, 1 July to 30 September 2015

HIV surveillance, 1 January to 31 March 2014

HIV surveillance, 1 April to 30 June 2014

HIV surveillance, 1 July to 30 September 2014

HIV surveillance, 1 October to 31 December 2014

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance Australia, 1 July to 30 September 2015

Reviewers for Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2015

Index to Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2015