Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 37 issue 2 June 2013-whole issue

Abstract

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Contents
Annual reports
Annual report of the Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory, 2012

Annual report of the Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory 2010-2011

Surveillance for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia: update to December 2012

Australian trachoma surveillance annual report, 2011

Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than seven years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2012

Original articles
Assessing the threat of chikungunya virus emergence in Australia

An outbreak of staphylococcal food poisoning in a commercially catered buffet

Review of Australia’s polio surveillance

Adolescent school-based vaccination in Australia

A history of adolescent school-based vaccination in Australia

Quarterly reports
Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group – Quarterly Surveillance Report

Meningococcal surveillance Australia reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2013

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables

Policy items
National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee 2012 Committee Report

Administration
Revised surveillance case definitions: Chlamydia; diphtheria; hepatitis E; pertussis

Errata: Annual report of National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee 2010-11; Annual immunisation coverage report, 2010