Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 27 issue 3 September 2003-whole issue

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Contents

Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation: Australia, 2000–2002
Progress towards eliminating Hib in Australia: An evaluation of Haemophilus influenzae type b prevention in Australia, 1July 1993 to 30 June 2000
Surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease in Queensland, 2002
Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2002
Estimating immunisation coverage: is the 'third dose assumption' still valid?
Invasive pneumococcal disease among children in Victoria
Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Program in Australia, July 2002 to June 2003
Gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis incidence in the Kimberley
An assessment of the Roche Amplicor® Chlamydia trachomatis/Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiplex PCR assay in routine diagnostic use on a variety of specimen types
An outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infection among conference delegates
Dengue in north Queensland, 2002
An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 99 linked to contaminated bakery piping bags
BEACH –Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health: a continuous national study of general practice activity
Human infestation with birds mites in Wollongong
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2003 (foodborne disease outbreaks, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 April to 30 June 2003
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 April to 30 June 2003
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2003 (cumulation of year to date)
Gonococcal surveillance, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2003
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2003, assessed as at 30 June 2003
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 January to 31 March 2003 cohort, assessed as at 31 December 2007
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2003
Overseas briefs, reporting period 1 1 April to 30 June 2003 (SARS transmission, cholera diarrhoea & dysentery, typhoid, bovine spongiform encepalopathy, dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever, smallpox vaccination adverse events, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (new variant), anthrax, avian influenza)