Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report volume 26 issue 2 June 2002-whole issue

Abstract

Errata: Several articles published within this issue were affected by errata issued in CDI Vol 26, No 3, 2002 (p. 374). While these errors have been largely addressed in the individual article pdfs, no corrections have been applied within this whole issue pdf. Please refer to the indicated errata when interpreting any of the affected articles within this whole issue pdf.

Contents

Polio eradication in Australia and the world
Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2000: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2001
Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2000
A message from the Branch Head
Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2000: Report of the Australian Mycobacterium Laboratory Reference Network
Report on the Second Technical Advisory Group Meeting to Stop TB in the Western Pacific Region, Beijing, China 4-6 June 2001
Towards global polio eradication: Australia's commitment to the global eradication of poliovirus by 2005
National Strategic Plan for TB Control in Australia Beyond 2000
Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2001
OzFoodNet: Quarterly report, October to December 2001
Australia declared polio free
A large, prolonged outbreak of human calicivirus infection linked to an aged-care facility
Evaluation of the Australian CJD Surveillance System
A measles outbreak among young adults in Victoria, February 2001
Melioidosis in the Torres Strait Islands of Far North Queensland
The National Public Health Partnership
Outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 135a following consumption of raw egg
Communicable Diseases Surveillance: Highlights for 1st quarter, 2002 (gastrointestinal disease, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne disease, zoonoses, other bacterial infections, LabVISE, other communicable diseases)
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables, 1 January to 31 March 2002
Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme tables, 1 January to 31 March 2002
Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network report tables, weeks 1-4 to 9-13, 2002
Rotavirus surveillance, July to December 2001 (cumulation of year to date)
HIV and AIDS surveillance, reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2001, assessed as at 31 March 2002
Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 October to 31 December 2001 cohort, assessed as at 31 March 2002
National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance System, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2002
Overseas briefs, reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2002 (dengue fever, poliomyelitis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (new variant), brucellosis, Ebola haemorrhagic fever, West Nile virus vaccine, eosinophilic meningitis, unexplained rash, hospital-acquired malaria, plague, influenza virus - new subtype A(H1N2), Corynebacterium ulcerans diphtheria, rubella)