Queensland

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  An outbreak of Salmonella Waycross related to sandpit contamination in a Gold Coast childcare centre, Queensland, Australia, 2024

  Heshani Rupasinghe, Kate E Alexander, Fiona May, Victoria Marriott, Amanda Robinson, Fiona Vosti, Tracy Bladen, Sharon Jurd, Rikki MA Graham, Brett Heron, Gino Micalizzi, Trudy Graham, Robert Bell, Candice Colbran

• Infant respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunisation coverage in an Australian regional area, 1 May 2024 – 31 October 2025

  Dr William H Roughan, Mr Brett Cavanagh-Ochiai, Ms Donna Barnekow, Ms Kaylene Lottkowitz, Mr Keppel Schafer, Dr Laxmi Camadoo, Professor Nicolas R Smoll

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Investigation of a Salmonella Typhi cluster among a Pacific Islander labour community in a fruit industry: perspective from a regional public health unit

  Connie Schulz, Mohammad Rashidul Hashan, Krishna Doshi, Olivia Williams, Rikki MA Graham, Jacina Walker, Gulam Khandaker

• Enhancing notification-driven linkage to care for people living with hepatitis C in Queensland: system constraints and solutions

  Amanda Armstrong, Stephen B Lambert, Theophilus I Emeto, Janet Farmer, Catherine Quagliotto

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Symptom profile of COVID-19 in children in the Metro South area of Brisbane, during the first SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave: a population-based survey

  Bonnie M Macfarlane, Yee Sum Li, Christian James, Khin Chaw, Satyamurthy Anuradha

• An outbreak of dengue virus type 3 on Mer Island in the Torres Strait, Australia in 2024

  Allison Hempenstall, A Pyke, C Taunton, U Sabatino, S Kaigey, E Pickering, G Ehlers, M O Muzari, J Davis, C Paton, C Taylor, A van den Hurk, G Hewitson, S Schlebusch, J Hanson

• Measles secondary vaccine failure in a childcare setting: an outbreak report

  Donna Barnekow, Debbie Neucom, Wendy Tout, Dustylee Williams, Michael J Thomas, Sanmarié Schlebusch, Alyssa Pyke, Madisen S Roser, Isaac Tranter, Amalie Dyda, Colleen L Lau, Nicolas R Smoll

• Public health rapid response in managing COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities: a regional public health unit perspective

  Mohammad Rashidul Hashan, Jacina Walker, Margaret Charles, Susie Le Brasse, Danielle Odorico, Nicolas Smoll, Michael Kirk, Robert Booy, Gulam Khandaker

• Community-led diphtheria vaccination campaign to manage a diphtheria outbreak in a remote Aboriginal community

  Allison Hempenstall, Joanne Neville, Caroline Taunton, Valmay Fisher, Vince Connellan, Alice Tayley, Georgina Keys, Josh Hanson

• Age of hepatitis B e antigen loss in Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous residents of tropical Australia: implications for clinical care

  Liana Nelder, Sharna Radlof, Simon Smith, Margaret Littlejohn, Allison Hempenstall, Josh Hanson

• Outbreak investigation of norovirus gastroenteritis in a childcare facility in Central Queensland, Australia: a household level case series analysis

  Connie Schulz, Amanda Wyatt, Jacina Walker, Nicolas Smoll, Emma Field, Gulam Khandaker

• Yersiniosis outbreaks in Gold Coast residential aged care facilities linked to nutritionally-supplemented milkshakes, January–April 2023

  Candice Colbran, Fiona May, Kate Alexander, Ian Hunter, Russell Stafford, Robert Bell, Anne Cowdry, Fiona Vosti, Sharon Jurd, Trudy Graham, Gino Micalizzi, Rikki Graham, Vicki Slinko

• Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in Central Queensland, Australia

  Gulam Khandaker, Emma Gale, Nicolas Smoll, Mahmudul Hassan Al Iman, Janica Walker, Michael Kirk, Sunday Pam, Robert Menzies

• A Five-year analysis of latent tuberculosis infection in Queensland, 2016–2020

  Marguerite Dalmau, Chris Coulter, Bridget O’Connor, Jennifer Robson, Emma Field, Stephen Lambert

• Outbreak of ciguatera poisoning in a commercial vessel: lessons learnt and prospects of early diagnosis, management, and prophylaxis

  Svetlana Krasnova, Nicolas Smoll, Steve Carter, Mark McManus, Dilip Kumar, Gulam Khandaker

• SMS reminders increase on-time vaccination in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants

  Jane L Manderson, Nicolas R Smoll, Dianne L Krenske, Lucinda Nedwich, Latoya Harbin, Margaret G Charles, Amanda Wyatt, Connie N Schulz, Jacina Walker, Gulam M Khandaker

• Wave of COVID-19 outbreaks in Gold Coast residential aged care facilities after easing travel restrictions into Queensland

  Candice Colbran, Fiona May, Fiona Vosti, Tracy Bladen, Andre Wattiaux, Vicki Slinko

• The utility of empirical mupirocin for eradication of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation in Far North Queensland, Australia

  Isabel Guthridge, Stuart Campbell, Simon Smith, Josh Hanson

• A Measles outbreak in the Whitsundays, Queensland: the shape of things to come?

  Jeffrey N Hanna, Dorothy J Symons, Michael J Lyon

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• Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant on a single liquified natural gas (LNG) vessel, with estimates of vaccine effectiveness

  Nicolas Smoll, Jacina Walker, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, Jill Auriac, Ross Andrews, Andrew Jeremijenko, Michael Kirk, Gulam Khandaker

• Queensland typhoid cluster linked to twelve-year carriage of Salmonella Typhi

  Marguerite Dalmau, Shuo Meng Song, Megan Young, Stephen Lambert, Rikki Graham, Gino Micalizzi, Emma Field, Robert Bell, Amy V Jennison, Russell Stafford

• Defining the peak: Point prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 using randomised sampling

  Andre L Wattiaux, Fiona May, Terresa Allen, Tracy Bladen, Brielle Pery, Lisa McHugh, Vicki Slinko, Alice Sykes, Lashan De Silva, Jay Bajra, Ross Andrews, Gulam Khandaker

• Epidemiology of mumps outbreaks and the impact of an additional dose of MMR vaccine for outbreak control in regional Queensland, Australia, 2017–2018

  Jacina Walker, Odewumi Adegbija, Nicolas Smoll, Arifuzzaman Khan, Jordan Whicker, Heidi Carroll, Rachael Rodney Harris, Gulam Khandaker

• The ATHENA COVID-19 Study: Cohort profile and first findings for people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Queensland, 1 January to 31 December 2020

  Jennifer Welsh, Rosemary J Korda, Ellie Paige, Mark A Morgan, Hsei-Di Law, Tony Staunton, Zoltan MJ Bourne, M Ximena Tolosa, Kim Greaves

• SARS-CoV-2 public health investigation in an aged care facility and challenges with serological screening in low pre-test probability settings

  Nicolas R Smoll, Carmel Taylor, Ross Martin, Sarah Wheatley, Peter Moore, Mitchell Finger, Frederick Moore, Sanmarié Schlebusch, Gulam Khandaker

• Re-emergence of dengue virus in regional Queensland: 2019 dengue virus outbreak in Rockhampton, Central Queensland, Australia

  Jacina Walker, Alyssa Pyke, Paul Florian, Fred Moore, Nicolas Smoll, Odewumi Adegbija, Arifuzzaman Khan, Rashidul Hasan, Heidi Carroll, Rachael Rodney Harris, Gulam Khandaker

• Notifiable diseases after implementation of COVID-19 public health prevention measures in Central Queensland, Australia

  Odewumi Adegbija, Jacina Walker, Nicolas Smoll, Arifuzzaman Khan, Julieanne Graham, Gulam Khandaker

• 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

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• An outbreak of serotype-1 sequence type 306 invasive pneumococcal disease in an Australian Indigenous population

  Heather M Cook, Carolien M Giele, Sanjay H Jayasinghe, Angela Wakefield, Vicki L Krause

• The improving state of Q fever surveillance. A review of Queensland notifications, 2003–2017

  Sarah Tozer, Caitlin Wood, Damin Si, Michael Nissen, Theo Sloots, Stephen Lambert

• Modified measles with an atypical presentation

  Alexandra M Uren, Bhakti R Vasant, Deborah Judd, David FM Looke, Andrew J Henderson, Kari AJ Jarvinen

• Dominance of the tiger: The displacement of Aedes aegypti by Aedes albopictus in parts of the Torres Strait, Australia

  Mutizwa Odwell Muzari, Joseph Davis, Rodney Bellwood, Bruce Crunkhorn, Ewan Gunn, Ursula Sabatino, Richard Gair

• Mass prophylaxis in an outbreak of invasive group A streptococcal disease in a residential aged care facility

  Bhakti R Vasant, Kari AJ Jarvinen, Ning-Xie Fang, Helen V Smith, Amy V Jennison

• The Use of normal human immunoglobulin (NHIG) for public health purposes in Queensland 2004-2014 and Australia 2014-2016

  Megan K Young, Allan W Cripps, Graeme R Nimmo

• An Outbreak of dengue 2 in the Torres Strait

  Marlene Griffiths, Scott Ritchie, Diana Terry, Rob Norton, Debra Phillips

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• Fatal encephalitis and meningitis at the Gold Coast Hospital, 1980 to 1996

  John Gerrard

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• Diagnostic testing in influenza and pertussis-related paediatric intensive care unit admissions, Queensland, Australia, 1997-2013

  Marlena C Kaczmarek, Sanmarie Schlebusch, Robert S Ware, Mark G Coulthard, Julie A McEniery, Stephen B Lambert

  308-317

• 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

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• Haycocknema perplexum: An emerging cause of parasitic myositis in Australia

  Luke J Vos, Thomas Robertson, Enzo Binotto

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• Medically-attended respiratory illnesses amongst pregnant women in Brisbane, Australia

  Precious Rufus Ashiedu, Ross M Andrews, Stephen B Lambert, Lisa McHugh, Sallyanne Le Gros-Wilson, Judith Zenchyson, Daniel Arnold, Clementine Shevell, Kerry-Ann F O'Grady

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• Public health response to a measles outbreak in a large correctional facility, Queensland, 2013

  Madhumati Chatterji, Anne M Baldwin, Rajendra Prakash, Susan A Vlack, Stephen B Lambert

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• 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

• Enhanced surveillance for gonorrhoea in two diverse settings in Queensland in the 2000s: comparative epidemiology and selected management outcomes

  Patricia S Fagan, Sandra G Downing, Bradley J McCall, Heidi J Carroll, Therese M Howard, Cheryl M Palmer

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• ß-lactamases in Salmonella enterica isolated in Australia

  Gino Micalizzi

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• A Decision support tool for vectorborne disease in Queensland, Australia

  Anita M Pelecanos, Archie DeGuzman, Ben Cull, Peter A Ryan, Michelle L Gatton

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• An Outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Torres Strait

  Annie Preston-Thomas, Richard W Gair, Kelly A Hosking, Gregor J Devine, Steven D Donohue

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• Surveillance of potential rabies exposure in Australian travellers returning to South East Queensland

  Heidi J Carroll, Brad J McCall, Jason C Christiansen

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• Norovirus in residential care facilities: Does prompt notification of outbreaks help?

  Craig A Davis, Hassan Vally, Frank H Beard

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• Melioidosis in north Queensland, 2000–2009

  Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys, Dianne L Brookes, Terrianne Messina, Alexandra Raulli

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• HIV, malaria and pneumonia in a Torres Strait Islander male – a case report

  Lachlan J McIver, Alexander N Kippin, Shaun T Parish, Oscar G Whitehead

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• Potential exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus in South East Queensland: what has changed in 12 years?

  Megan K Young, Bradley J McCall

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• Serotype 6C invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland

  Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys, Amy Jennison, Megan Penny, Helen V Smith

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• Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 in north Queensland – risk factors for admission in a region with a large Indigenous population

  Patrick NA Harris, Rashmi Dixit, Fleur Francis, Petra G Buettner, Clinton Leahy, Bjorn Burgher, Angela Egan, Michelle Proud, Ruvinka Jayalath, Amrit Grewal, Robert E Norton

  102-109