Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 38 issue 4 December 2014-whole issue

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Contents
Original articles
An outbreak of gastroenteritis linked to a buffet lunch served at a Canberra restaurant

Surveillance snapshot of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitals across Queensland detects binary toxin producing ribotype UK 244

Histamine fish poisoning in Australia, 2001 to 2013

Short reports
Public health response to a measles outbreak in a large correctional facility, Queensland, 2013

Toxigenic cutaneous diphtheria in a returned traveller

Annual reports
Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme annual report, 2013

Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme annual report, 2013

Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme annual report, 2013

Enterobacteriaceae Sepsis Outcome Programme annual report, 2013

Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2013

Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit annual report, 2013

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia, update to December 2013

Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2011

Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically-confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2011

Future reporting of tuberculosis in Australia

Quarterly reports
OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2013

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 1 July to 30 September 2014

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2014

Meningococcal surveillance Australia, 1 July to 30 September 2014

Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, 1 July to 30 September 2013

Policies and guidelines
Essential components of a tuberculosis control program within Australia

Administration
Call for reviewers

Reviewers for Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2014

CDI indexes
Index to Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2014