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Table of Contents - Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 20 1996
Issue 1 - 8 January 1996 | Issue 2 - 22 January 1996 | Issue 3 - 5 February 1996
Issue 4 - 19 February 1996 | Issue 5 - 4 March 1996 | Issue 6 - 18 March 1996
Issue 7 - 1 April 1996 | Issue 8 - 15 April 1996 | Issue 9 - 29 April 1996
Issue 10 - 13 May 1996 | Issue 11 - 27 May 1996 | Issue 12 - 10 June 1996
Issue 13 - 24 June 1996 | Issue 14 - 8 July 1996 | Issue 15 - 22 July 1996
Issue 16 - 5 August 1996 | Issue 17 - 19 August 1996 | Issue 18 - 2 September 1996
Issue 19 - 16 September 1996 | Issue 20 - 30 September 1996 | Issue 21 - 14 October 1996
Issue 22 - 28 October 1996 | Issue 23 - 11 November 1996 | Issue 24 - 25 November 1996
Issue 25 - 9 December 1996
Volume 20 Number 25, 9 December 1996 (PDF file 597KB)
- High level aminoglycoside resistance in enterococcal blood culture isolates
(David Paterson, Janet Bodman, Mee Len Thong) (PDF file 50KB) - Update on bat lyssavirus (PDF file 20KB)
- CDI reviewers, 1996 (PDF file 14KB)
Overseas briefs (PDF file 76KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance (PDF file 175KB)
Volume 20 Number 24, 25 November 1996 (PDF file 681KB)
Articles
- A human case of encephalitis due to a lyssavirus recently identified in fruit bats
(Anthony Allworth, Keith Murray, John Morgan) (PDF file 18KB) - Prevention of human lyssavirus infection
(Recommendations of the Lyssavirus Expert Group meeting) (PDF file 39KB) - Annual report of the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme, 1995
(Margaret Curran) (PDF file 227KB)
Overseas briefs (PDF file 38KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance (PDF file 91KB)
Volume 20 Number 23, 11 November 1996 (PDF file 486KB)
Articles
Overseas briefs (PDF file 31KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance (PDF file 102KB)
Volume 20 Number 22, 28 October 1996 (PDF file 537KB)
Articles
- Identification of likely natural hosts for equine morbillivirus
(Kim Halpin, Peter Yong, Hume Field) (PDF file 21KB) - Screening of bat carers for antibodies to equine morbillivirus
(Linda Selvey, Roscoe Taylor, Antony Arklay, John Gerrard) (PDF file 31KB) - A five year review of Campylobacter infection in Queensland
(Russell Stafford, Thomas Tenkate, Brad McCall) (PDF file 70KB)
Overseas briefs (PDF file 34KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance (PDF file 111KB)
Volume 20 Number 21, 14 October 1996 (PDF file 1,293KB)
Articles
Outbreak
- A cluster of listeriosis cases in South Australia
(Robert Hall, David Shaw, Irene Lim, Fiona Murphy, Dianne Davos, Jan Lanser, Brian Delroy, Ingrid Tribe, Ros Holland and Judy Carman) (PDF file 25KB) - Composition of Australian influenza vaccine for the 1996 winter (PDF file 38KB)
Overseas briefs (PDF file 27KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance (PDF file 127KB)
Volume 20 Number 20, 30 September 1996 (PDF file 577KB)
Articles
- Fatal scrub typhus from Litchfield Park, Northern Territory
(Bart Currie, David Lo, Paul Marks, Gary Lum, Peter Whelan, Vicki Krause) (PDF file 30KB) - Meningococcal isolate surveillance, Australia, 1995
(The National Neisseria Network) (PDF file 40KB) - Antimicrobial resistance in gonococci, WHO Western Pacific Region, 1995
(World Health Organization Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme) (PDF file 50KB)
Overseas briefs (PDF file 31KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance (PDF file 141KB)
Volume 20 Number 19, 16 September 1996 (PDF file 569KB)
Articles
- Isolation of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Queensland, Case 1
(David Paterson, Anthony Jennings, Amanda Allen, Kevin Sherlock and Michael Whitby) (PDF file 29KB) - Isolation of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Queensland, Case 2
(Joan Faoagali, Jan Bodman and Alanna Geary) (PDF file 31KB) - Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in Australia: the first year
(Ana Herceg, Margery Kennett, Jayne Antony and Helen Longbottom) (PDF file 43KB)
Overseas briefs (PDF file 17KB)
Communicable diseases surveillance (PDF file 145KB)
Volume 20 Number 18, 2 September 1996 (PDF file 531KB)
Articles
- Enhanced surveillance for incident cases of hepatitis C in Australia, 1995
(Ross Andrews and Margaret Curran) -
Editorial: hepatitis C surveillance
(Stephen Locarnini and Jeremy McAnulty)
Outbreak
- Invasive meningococcal disease Outbreak in western Sydney
Correspondence
- Toxic shock syndrome testing
Notices to readers
- Public Health Association of Australia Inc. Fifth National Immunisation Conference
- Fourth National Symposium on Hepatitis C and Related Viruses Including Hepatitis G
- Correction - Meningococcal disease in Australia
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 17, 19 August 1996 (PDF file 537KB)
Articles
- Meningococcal disease in Australia
(Rosemary Munro and John Tapsall)
Outbreak
- Two linked cases of Legionnaires' disease, South Australia
(Martyn Kirk, Rachel Wells, Carolyn Walker and Jan Lanser)
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 16, 5 August 1996 (PDF file 506KB)
Articles
- An Outbreak of severe gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus in the Solomon Islands
(Elizabeth Rodgers, Paul Masendycz, Helen Bugg and Ruth Bishop)
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 15, 22 July 1996 (PDF file 522KB)
Articles
- Toxic shock syndromes in Australia and New Zealand 1990-1994
(Priscilla Robinson, Margaret Peel, George Skowronski and Graham Rouch) -
Testing for toxic shock syndrome
(Jenny Robson)
Notices to readers
- Australasian Epidemiological Association Annual Scientific Meeting
- 28th Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia Inc
- Change to Internet address for CDI
- Global situation of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Overseas briefs
- Influenza update, New Zealand
- Cerebrospinal meningitis
- Dengue/dengue haemorrhagic fever
- Cholera update
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 14, 8 July 1996 (PDF file 506KB)
Articles
- Invasive meningococcal disease in North Queensland, 1990-1994
(Jeffrey Hanna, Bradley McCall and Denise Murphy) -
Human health aspects of a possible lyssavirus in a black flying fox
(Scott Crerar, Helen Longbottom, John Rooney and Peter Thornber)
Outbreak
- Human salmonellosis and peanut butter
- The Salmonella Mbandaka Outbreak - an Australian overview
(Graeme Oliver)
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 13, 24 June 1996 (PDF file 566KB)
Articles
- Rotavirus infection - the need for a vaccine
(Ruth Bishop and Graeme Barnes) -
Three cases of diarrhoea from Penang, Malaysia
(David L Paterson, Colleen P Brenton, and Jennifer M B Robson) - Cholera information for the Australian traveller
- Cholera
- The role of a diagnostic reference laboratory in malaria surveillance
(John Walker) -
Editorial: malaria surveillance in Australia
(Graeme Oliver)
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 12, 10 June 1996 (PDF file 609KB)
Articles
- An Outbreak of hepatitis A in a child-care centre
(Rod Davidson, Ossama El-Saadi, Debbie Longhurst, Desley Kassulke) -
Catering on the move - investigating a typical Outbreak of gastroenteritis
(Mark Veitch, Catherine Ferreira, Kylie Densten, Selena Heaton, Julia Griffith) -
Tropical influenza surveillance
(Fay Johnston)
Overseas briefs
Correspondence
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 11, 27 May 1996 (PDF file 584KB)
Articles
- Haemophilus Influenzae type b vaccination coverage in the Australia Capital Territory for children aged nine months and two years
(Eddie O'Brien and Ann Kempe) - Network on antimicrobial resistance monitoring
- Haemorrhagic fevers in Africa
- Possible reservoir host of equine morbillivirus identified
(Peter Yong)
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 10, 13 May 1996 (PDF file 526KB)
Articles
- An Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 infection on the Gold Coast
(Brad McCall et al) -
Should STD surveillance include ethnicity data?
(Meredith Temple-Smith and Sandra Gifford)
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 9, 29 April 1996 (PDF file 261KB)
Articles
- Influenza - dealing with a continually emerging disease
(Alan Hampson) -
Immunisation coverage of two year old children in child-care centres in
Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions of New South Wales
(Glenis Lloyd) -
Editorial: measuring immunisation coverage
(Robert Hall) - Adult tetanus vaccination level survey 1996, South Australia
Overseas briefs
Notices to readers
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases enquiries
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 8, 15 April 1996 (PDF file 1,263KB)
Articles
- Vaccination against Japanese encephalitis in the Torres Strait
(Jeffrey Hanna, Dianne Barnett, Dan Ewald) -
Reappearance of the Japanese encephalitis virus in the Torres Strait, 1996
(Jack Shield, Jeffrey Hanna, Debra Phillips) -
Pertussis and the acellular vaccines
(Margaret Burgess, Jill Forrest) - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and possible human risks
Correspondence
- Accelerated primary immunisation schedule
(David Sloan)
Overseas briefs
Notices to readers
- Development of a National Communicable diseases surveillance Strategy
- Seventh Arbovirus Research in Australia/Second Mosquito Control Association of Australia Conference
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 7, 1 April 1996 (PDF file 283KB)
Articles
- World Health Organization tuberculosis notification update, 1994
- Are we running out of antibiotics?
(Beryl Wild) - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the United Kingdom
- Meningitis in Africa - the constant challenge of epidemics
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 6, 18 March 1996 (PDF file 338KB)
Articles
- An Outbreak of Ross River virus disease in the south-west of Western Australia
- National influenza surveillance 1995
- Influenza vaccine formula for the northern winter 1996-1996
- National Health and Medical Research Council recommendations on influenza immunisation
Correspondence
- Composition of influenza vaccine for the southern hemisphere winter, 1996
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 5, 4 March 1996 (PDF file 317KB)
Articles
- Tuberculosis notification in Australia, 1994
(Graeme Oliver) -
Hepatitis A associated with a child-care centre
(Graham Tallis, Mark Veitch, Bronwen Harries)
Outbreak
- Ross River virus in Western Australia
Overseas briefs
Notices to readers
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 4, 19 February 1996 (PDF file 592KB)
Articles
- Epidemiology of malaria in Australia 1991 - 1995
(Helen Longbottom) - World malaria situation in 1993
Overseas briefs
Notices to readers
- International Symposium of Disaster and Health
- Yale University Emerging Infections Information Network
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 3, 5 February 1996 (PDF file 1,563KB)
Articles
- The current global situation of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- World Health Organization provisional working estimates of adult HIV prevalence
- Editorial: Global HIV/AIDS - a changing picture
(John Kaldor) -
Melioidosis and the monsoon in tropical Australia
(Bart Currie) -
Diphtheria: May be not!
(Jennifer MB Robson, Michael Harrison, Lindsay W Wing and Roscoe Taylor)
Correspondence
Overseas briefs
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 2, 22 January 1996 (PDF file 632KB)
Articles
- Annual report of the CDI Sterile Sites Laboratory Reporting Scheme, 1994
- LabDOSS peritoneal dialysate isolates, 1992 to 1994
- CDI readership survey
- Editorial: CDI - moving ahead
Overseas briefs
CDI Notices to readers
- CDI electronic distribution on World Wide Web site
- Review of the role of laboratories in communicable disease surveillance and control
Communicable diseases surveillance
Volume 20 Number 1, 8 January 1996 (PDF file 1.4 MB)
Articles
- Validation of reported risk exposure in persons with newly diagnosed HIV infection
- School entry immunisation certificates: a useful tool for immunisation surveillance?
Surveillance data in CDI
Overseas briefs
CDI Notices to readers
CDI Editorial Advisory Board
CDI Electronic Distribution
The Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
Communicable diseases surveillance
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