Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 36 issue 4 December 2012-whole issue

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Disclaimer: This whole-issue PDF contains one or more 'Policy and Guidelines' items on pp. E345–352, 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.  

The erratum included in this whole-issue pdf refers to incorrect listings for jurisdictional notification rates for salmonellosis, shigellosis and STEC/VTEC in NNDSS Table 3 within the issues CDI vol. 35 no. 2 (June 2011) to vol. 36 no. 3 (September 2012) inclusive. This error (of mislabelling of the indicated rows within the affected CDI issues) has been corrected in each downloadable pdf; no further amendments to those pdfs are advised.

Contents

Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2011
Changing epidemiology of bloodstream infection pathogens over time in adult non-specialty patients at an Australian tertiary hospital
A decision support tool for vectorborne disease in Queensland, Australia
Revised surveillance case definitions: hepatitis A; yellow fever; Barmah Forest virus infection; dengue virus infection; Ross River virus infection; leprosy; legionellosis
OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2012
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 July to 30 September 2012
HIV and AIDS surveillance, 1 October to 31 December 2011
Errata: I nvasive pneumococcal disease in Australia annual report, 2007 and 2008; Communicable disease surveillance – Tables (National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables for Vol. 35, issues 2, 3, 4 and Vol. 36, issues 1, 2, 3)
Index to Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2012
Reviewers for Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2012