Pathogen surveillance

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  Understanding the role of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in skin infections in northern Australia

  Dr Hannah Gooding, Adjunct Associate Professor Allison Hempenstall

• Early use of genomics to guide acquisition investigation of Salmonella Typhi

  Rehana Di Rico, Jelena Traljic, Clarissa Moreira, Su Ann Ho, Min-Ho Jung, Jane McAllister, Nicole Hughes, Jake A Lacey, Norelle L Sherry, Claire L Gordon, Annaliese van Diemen

• Measles epidemiology in Australia: 2014 to 2024 Erratum to Commun Dis Intell (2018) - https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2026.50.016

  Ms Lizzie Gorrell, Dr Benjamin G Polkinghorne, Prof. David N Durrheim

• An outbreak of measles linked to healthcare services in Far North Queensland, 2025

  Tonia Marquardt, Simon Smith, Juliet Esmonde, Matthew O’Bryan, Lucy Thallon, Alireza Zahedi, Trent Yarwood, Jacqueline Murdoch

• Measles epidemiology in Australia: 2014 to 2024

  Ms Lizzie Gorrell, Dr Benjamin G Polkinghorne, Prof. David N Durrheim

• Investment in cross-jurisdictional relationships results in a streamlined and efficient response by public health units to an imported case of measles in Far North Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia, 2025

  Tonia Marquardt, Juliet Esmonde, Jacqueline Murdoch, Anthony Draper, Kimberley McMahon

• Identifying missing links – an ongoing outbreak of a novel tuberculosis strain in regional Queensland

  Bridget A O’Connor, Dr Arnold Bainomugisa, Dr Sushil Pandey, Ms Gemma L Devlin, Dr Christopher Coulter

• Maternal vaginal colonisation with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B and late onset neonatal invasive meningococcal disease

  Nadiya Brell, Chloe Story, Sebastiaan J van Hal, Martin A. Weber, Monica M Lahra

• Investigation and response to an outbreak of mpox cases linked to a high-risk group event in Southeast Queensland in May 2024

  Miss Maggie Miller, Mrs Deena Malloy, Dr Megan Young, Dr Alyssa Pyke, Dr James Smith, Dr Sanmarie Schlebusch, Dr Mark Stickley, Dr Davoud Pourmarzi

• Epidemiology of invasive group A streptococcal disease in the North East of Melbourne: insights from surveillance data

  Ms Safiya Rahman Ateekur Rahman, Dr Clarissa Moreira, Mr Aaron Osborne, Ms Hibaq Ahmed, Dr Annaliese van Diemen

• Comparing two acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis outbreaks in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area, Queensland

  Allison Hempenstall, Darien Payne, Caroline Taunton, Nancy Lui-Gamia, Nishila Moodley, Malcolm McDonald

• An outbreak of genomically clustered group A Streptococcus in a school community, Victoria, 2023

  Aaron Osborne, Julia Marshall, Janet Strachan, Amy Parry, Dr Annaliese van Diemen, Hazel J Clothier

• Act Now—A Global Call to Confront Antimicrobial Resistance

  Christina Bareja

• The epidemiology of amoebiasis in the Northern Territory of Australia over 20 years (2005 – 2024)

  Dr Bhavya Balasubramanya, Hayley JC Dyke, Sarah A Lynar, Kelly Lomas, Kimberley McMahon, Vicki L Krause, Anthony DK Draper

• Shigellosis in South East Metropolitan Melbourne, 1 January 2022 – 31 March 2023

  Dr Emilie A Guy, Dr Lucy O Attwood, A/Prof. Simon R Crouch, Ms Mohana Baptista, Ms Tania Ruz, Dr Rhonda L Stuart

• Dengue rapid antigen tests enable prompt outbreak detection and a rapid public health response in the remote Torres Strait, Australia

  C Cashman, N Lui-Gamia, C Taunton, D Peniyamina, J Davis, A Hempenstall

• Hospital-based surveillance of respiratory syncytial virus in Central Queensland

  Gulam Khandaker, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, Reema Goswami, Caitlyn Bolck, Jacina Walker, Michael Kirk, Robert Menzies

• The first year of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surveillance in Tasmania, 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023

  Michelle McPherson, Nicola Stephens, Bhavika Yadav, Shannon Melody

• Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) in the Torres Strait and Cape York: surveillance insights pre- and post- mandatory notification

  Allison Hempenstall, Eliza Cropp, Caroline Taunton, Malcolm McDonald, Nancy Lui-Gamia, Debra Nona

• Guidelines for the control of pertussis in Australia

  Communicable Diseases Network Australia and New Zealand

  xi, 1-46

• Guidelines for the control of measles outbreaks in Australia

  Communicable Diseases Network Australia and New Zealand

  xvii, 110

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance: CDI volume 24 issue 1 (2000)

  No authors listed

  11-19

• Differential COVID-19 case ascertainment by age and vaccination status in Victoria, Australia: a serosurveillance and record linkage study

  Joshua Szanyi, David J Price, Kylie S Carville, Mitch Batty, Sarah Yallop, Suellen Nicholson, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Stacy Rowe, Sheena Sullivan, Vinay Menon, Daniel West, Lakshmi Manoharan, Eliza Copsey, Suman S Majumdar, Brett Sutton, Deborah A Williamson, Jodie McVernon

• Respiratory diphtheria in the time of Omicron

  Annabeth Simpson, Paul Douglas, Jenny Draper, Vitali Sintchenko, Zoe Cutcher, Daniel Ashton

• Opportunities to strengthen respiratory virus surveillance systems in Australia: lessons learned from the COVID-19 response

  Freya M Shearer, Laura Edwards, Martyn Kirk, Oliver Eales, Nick Golding, Jenna Hassall, Bette Liu, Michael Lydeamore, Caroline Miller, Robert Moss, David J Price, Gerard E Ryan, Sheena Sullivan, Ruarai Tobin, Kate Ward, John Kaldor, Allen C Cheng, James Wood, James M McCaw

• Changes in norovirus incidence in Victoria, Australia, 2022: are we back to normal yet after COVID?

  Leesa D Bruggink, Bruce Thorley

• The Effect of COVID-19 public health measures on nationally notifiable diseases in Australia during 2020 and 2021

  Anna C Rafferty, Anna Glynn-Robinson, Dharshi Thangarajah, Ben Polkinghorne

• Several confirmed and probable zoonotic cases of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans, Queensland, Australia

  Vicki G Slinko, Christine JD Guglielmino, Alexandra M Uren, James KG Smith, Deborah Neucom, Nicolas R Smoll, Rikki MA Graham, Ning-Xia Fang, Helen V Smith, Amanda E Armstrong, Alison A Kenny, Janet L Farmer, Catherine A Quagliotto, Amy V Jennison

• The impact of the National Shingles Vaccination Program on the epidemiology of herpes zoster among adults ≥ 60 years in Victoria, Australia

  Madeleine J Marsland, Anna Glynn-Robinson, Rebecca F Gang, Janet Strachan

• Lessons from the re-emergence of imported measles cases following the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia

  Madeleine J Marsland, Janet Strachan, Rebecca F Gang, Miriam O’Hara, Nicole M Hughes, Anna Glynn-Robinson

• Group B streptococcus in the Northern Territory in 2023: clindamycin down but not out

  Kate E Proudmore, Ma Nu Nu Swe, May Leitch, Kim Clayfield, Jann Hennessy, Rob W Baird

• Epidemiology of Group A Streptococcal bacteraemia in Hunter New England Local Health District, 2008 to 2019

  Kirsten M Williamson, Hemalatha Varadhan, Kylie Taylor, Kristy Crooks, Katie Brett, Charlee Law, Michelle Butler, Trent Butler, Emily Green, Joshua S Davis, Paul Wilson, Tambri Housen, Tony Merritt, David N Durrheim

• Socio-environmental and clinical features of invasive group A streptococcal disease in the Northern Territory of Australia

  Dr Johanna M Birrell, Ms Rowena Boyd, Prof Bart J Currie, A/Prof Asanga Abeyaratne, Prof Sandawana William Majoni, A/Prof Vicki L Krause

• Characterisation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates in the Northern Territory of Australia

  Matthew Howes, Dimitrios Menouhos, Stefanos Christofis, Jann Hennessy, Rob Baird

• Staphylococcus lugdunensis and coagulase-negative staphylococci species characterisation in a tropical climate

  Matthew Howes, Rob Baird

• Seasonality in testing and positive respiratory bacterial infections in the Australian Capital Territory, 1997–2007

  Xinyi Liu, Aparna Lal, Alice Richardson

• Bacterial Ocular Surveillance System (BOSS) Sydney, Australia 2017-2018

  Stephanie L. Watson, Barrie J Gatus, Maria Cabrera-Aguas , Benjamin H Armstrong, CR Robert George , Pauline Khoo , Monica M Lahra

• Severe community-acquired pneumonia due to Streptococcus pyogenes in the Newcastle area

  Paul A. Wilson, Hemalatha Varadhan

• An Outbreak of multi-resistant Shigella sonnei in a long-stay geriatric nursing centre

  Brad McCall, Russell Stafford, Sarah Cherian, Karen Heel, Helen Smith, Nick Corones, Sharon Gilmore

  272-275

• Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, 1 July to 30 September 2012 (updated)

  Monique Chilver, Daniel Blakeley, Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network


  283-285

• Australia’s national zoster vaccination program: Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of general practitioners

  Harunor Rashid, Aditi Dey, Ramesh Manocha, Mohamed Tashani, Kristine Macartney, Frank Beard

• Challenges in using serological methods to explore historical transmission risk of Chlamydia psittaci in a workforce with high exposure to equine chlamydiosis

  Belinda Jones, Kathryn Taylor, Robyn M Lucas, Tony Merritt, Catherine Chicken, Jane Heller, Joan Carrick, Rodney Givney, David N Durrheim

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance: CDI volume 20 issue 19 (1996)

  No authors listed

  407-416

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance: CDI volume 21 issue 18 (1997)

  No authors listed

  270-278

• Recent trends in invasive group A Streptococcus disease in Victoria

  Jane Oliver, Mathilda Wilmot, Janet Strachan, Siobhan St George, Courtney R Lane, Susan A Ballard, Michelle Sait, Katherine Gibney, Benjamin P Howden, Deborah A Williamson

• The Effects of culture independent diagnostic testing on the diagnosis and reporting of enteric bacterial pathogens in Queensland, 2010 to 2014

  Fiona J May, Russell J Stafford, Heidi Carroll, Jennifer MB Robson, Renu Vohra, Graeme R Nimmo, John Bates, Martyn D Kirk, Emily J Fearnley, Benjamin G Polkinghorne

  223-230

• Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, 1 April to 30 June 2016

  Monique B-N Chilver, Daniel Blakeley, Nigel P Stocks, Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network


  448-449

• Australian trachoma surveillance annual report, 2013

  Carleigh S Cowling, Bette C Liu, Thomas L Snelling, James S Ward, John M Kaldor, David P Wilson

  255-266

• HIV surveillance, 1 October to 31 December 2014

  Kirby Institute

  638

• HIV surveillance, 1 July to 30 September 2014

  Kirby Institute

  637

• HIV surveillance, 1 April to 30 June 2014

  Kirby Institute

  636

• HIV surveillance, 1 January to 31 March 2014

  Kirby Institute

  635

• Legionella pneumophila: probable transmission from a contaminated respiratory device

  Jacqueline H Stephens, Douglas D Shaw, Ann P Koehler

  201-203

• Revised surveillance case definitions: hepatitis B - unspecified; hepatitis B - newly acquired; hepatitis E; syphilis - congenital; infectious syphilis

  Case Definitions Working Group, Communicable Diseases Network Australia

  314-318

• Surveillance systems reported in Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2015

  No authors listed

  177-182

• Australia’s notifiable disease status, 2012: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

  NNDSS Annual Report Writing Group

  46-136

• Revised surveillance case definitions: hepatitis C - newly acquired; and viral haemorrhagic fevers (quarantinable)

  Case Definitions Working Group, Communicable Diseases Network Australia

  183-184

• Surveillance snapshot of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitals across Queensland detects binary toxin producing ribotype UK 244

  Charlotte A Huber, Lisa Hall, Niki F Foster, Mareeka Gray, Michelle Allen, Leisha J Richardson, Jennifer Robson, Renu Vohra, Sanmarie Schlebusch, Narelle George, Graeme R Nimmo, Thomas V Riley, David L Paterson

  279-284

• Toxigenic cutaneous diphtheria in a returned traveller

  Nur R Abdul Rahim, Ann P Koehler, Doug D Shaw, Caitlin R Graham

  298-300

• HIV surveillance, 1 October to 31 December 2013

  Kirby Institute

  168