Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 29 issue 4 December 2005-whole issue

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Contents

Communicable Diseases Network Australia National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee annual report 2004–05
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of nucleic acid detection tests for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Australia: A position paper on behalf of the Public Health Laboratory Network
Surveillance of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli in Australia
Epidemic viral gastroenteritis in Queensland coincides with the emergence of a new norovirus variant
Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 170 in a tertiary paediatric hospital with person-to-person transmission implicated
Investigation of a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Hvittingfoss using a web-based case reporting form
OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, July to September 2005
Epidemiological features and control of an outbreak of scarlet fever in a Perth primary school
The epidemiology of kuru in the period 1987 to 1995
Q fever vaccine uptake in South Australian meat processors prior to the introduction of the National Q Fever Management Program
Communicable and vaccine-preventable conditions under surveillance by the APSU: 2004 update
A report from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, 1 July to 30 September 2005
Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than 7 years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2005
Communicable diseases surveillance: Highlights for 3rd quarter, 2005 (gastrointestinal illnesses, sexually transmissible infections, vaccine preventable diseases, other bacterial infections)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 July to 30 September 2005
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 July to 30 September 2005
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005 (cumulation of year to date)
Meningococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2005
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 April to 30 June 2005 cohort, assessed as at 30 September 2005
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2005, assessed as at 30 September 2005
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005
Overseas brief, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005 (poliomyelitis, avian influenza, Japanese encephalitis, Outbreak associated with Streptococcus suis in pigs, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (new variant), influenza viruses - drug resistance)
CDI subject index, 2005
CDI author index, 2005
CDI reviewers 2005