Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 27 issue 1 March 2003-whole issue

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Contents

Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2001: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
Composition of the Australia influenza vaccine for the 2003 season
Pneumococcal disease in Australia: current status and future challenges. A report of the workshop held at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, 8-9 November, 2002
OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, July to September 2002
Mumps and rubella surveillance in Victoria, 1993 to 2000
Varicella surveillance: simpler than you think?
Uptake of influenza vaccine among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island adults in north Queensland, 2002
Variability of larval identification characters of exotic Aedes albopictus (Skuse) intercepted in Darwin, Northern Territory
Rainfall and vector mosquito numbers as risk indicators for mosquito-borne disease in Central Australia
Surveillance of viral pathogens in Australia: respiratory syncytial virus
Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network
Surveillance systems reported in CDI, 2003
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights for 4th quarter, 2002 (gastrointestinal disease, vectorborne diseases, other bacterial infections, other non-notifiable diseases, LabVISE)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 October to 31 December 2002
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 October to 31 December 2002
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2002 (cumulation of year to date)
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2002
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2002, assessed as at 31 December 2002
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 July to 30 September 2002 cohort, assessed as at 31 December 2002
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2002
Overseas briefs, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2002 (yellow fever, West Nile virus infection, meningococcal disease, dengue fever, tuberculosis, Glycopeptide intermediate resistant Staphylococcus aureus, European bat lyssavirus, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (new variant), hepatitis A, Campylobacter, viral gastroenteritis, clinic-acquired cluster of hepatitis C, malariaavian influenza, chikungunya, cholera, dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever, Ebola haemorrhagic fever, hand foot and mouth disease, human immunodeficiency virus)