Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 30 issue 1 March 2006-whole issue

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Contents

Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2004: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2004
Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2004
Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2004
The BCG vaccine: information and recommendations for use in Australia
Guidelines for Australian Mycobacteriology Laboratories
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoea in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2004
National Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2004-05
Influenza surveillance in Victoria, 2005
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to December 2005
OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, 1 October to 31 December 2005
A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, 1 October to 31 December 2005
Surveillance Systems reported in CDI, 2006
Communicable Diseases Intelligence instructions for authors
Communicable diseases surveillance: Highlights for 4th quarter, 2005 (gastrointestinal illnesses, sexually transmissible infections, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, other bacterial infections)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 October to 31 December 2005
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 October to 31 December 2005
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2005 (cumulation of year to date)
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 July to 30 September 2005 cohort, assessed as at 31 December 2005
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005, assessed as at 31 December 2005
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2005
Overseas brief, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2005 (avian influenza, chikungunya, West Nile virus, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (new variant), Marburg haemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis virus infection, poliomyelitis)