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Table of Contents - Volume 23, 1999

Number 1 - 21 January 1999 |Number 2 - 18 February 1999 |Number 3 - 18 March 1999 | Number 4 - 15 April 1999 |Number 5 - 13 May 1999 | Number 6 - 10 June 1999 | Number 7 - 8 July 1999 | Number 8 - 5 August 1999 | Number 9 - 2 September 1999 | Number 10 - 30 September 1999 | Number 11 - 28 October 1999 | Number 12 - 25 November 1999 | Number 13 - 23 December 1999

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Volume 23 Number 13 - 23 December 1999 (PDF file 291KB)

• Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 1997
  (Nicole Gilroy in collaboration with the National TB Advisory Group)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 97KB)

• Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically confirmed cases and drug resistance, 1997
  (David Dawson, WHO Collaborating Centre in Tuberculosis Bacteriology)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 70KB)

• CDI Reviewers, 1999
  - Also available as a (PDF file (68KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (Vaccine preventable diseases, meningococcal infection, Ross River virus, dengue, leptospirosis, ornithosis, SLTEC, HUS)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 24KB)
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 27KB)
  • Additional reports (Gonococcal surveillance, Sentinel Chicken Surveillance, HIV/AIDS Surveillance, Serious Adverse Events Surveillance Scheme
    - Also available as a (PDF file (36KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

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Volume 23 Number 12 - 25 November 1999 (PDF file 131KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 1998
  (The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 47KB)

• Australian recommendations for the influenza vaccine composition for the year 2000 season
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Report of the Australian National Polio Reference Laboratory
  (Margery Kennett, Vicki Stambos, Ann Turnbull, Aishah Ibrhim, Health Kelly)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 36KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (Vaccine preventable diseases, meningococcal infection, Ross River virus, malaria, brucellosis, chancroid, chlamydia, listeriosis)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 42KB)
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 32KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

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Volume 23 Number 11 - 28 October 1999 (PDF file 827KB)

• Australia's notifiable diseases status, 1999: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  (Jenny Thomson, Ming Lin, Linda Halliday, Peter McIntyre, Heather Gidding, Janaki Amin, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 538KB)

• Preparing for refugee crises in Australia: Kosovar health surveillance
  (Catherine Bennett, Jacki Mien, Mary Beers, Kerry Chant, Subramanyam Vemulpad)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (Vaccine preventable diseases, meningococcal infection, Ross River virus, malaria, brucellosis, chancroid, chlamydia, listeriosis)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 23KB)
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 36KB)
  • Additional reports (National Influenza Surveillance 1999, Sentinel Chicken Surveillance, Childhood Immunisation Report)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 45KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

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Volume 23 Number 10 - 30 September 1999 (PDF file 83KB)

• Unusual cluster of mild invasive serogroup C meningococcal infection in a university college
  (Mark Ferson, Lorraine Young, Geoff Hansen, Jeff Post, John Tapsall, Tiffany Shultz, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 26KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (Haemophilus influenzae type b, meningococcal disease, dengue infection, Ross River virus, Q fever)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 11KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 33KB)
    
  • Additional reports(National Influenza Surveillance 1999, HIV and AIDS Surveillance)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 32KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

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Volume 23 Number 9 - 2 September 1999 (PDF file 147KB)

• Isolation of ß-lactamase positive vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis; first case in Australia
  (Thomas McAlister, Narelle George, Joan Faoagali, Jan Bell)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 28KB)

• An outbreak of measles in a rural Queensland town in 1997; an opportunity to assess vaccine effectiveness
  (Heather Gidding, Susan Hills, Linda Selvey, Leslee Roberts, Susan Johnston)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 55KB)

• New publications
  - Also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (Pertussis, meningococcal)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 12KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 41KB)
    
  • Additional reports (National Influenza Surveillance 1999, HIV and AIDS Surveillance, Serious Adverse Events Following Vaccination Surveillance Scheme)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 48KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 21KB)

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Volume 23 Number 8 - 5 August 1999 (PDF file 181KB)

• The epidemiology of rubella and congenital rubella in Australia, 1992 to 1997
  (Eleanor M Sullivan, Margaret A Burgess, Jill M Forrest)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 57KB)

• An outbreak of Campylobacter enteritis on an island resort, North Queensland
  - Also available as a (PDF file 44KB)

• Editorial: Outbreak of Campylobacter enteritis, North Queensland
  - Also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

• Neisseria canis infection: a case report
  (Sandie Safton, Gavin Cooper, Michael Harrison, Lynne Wright and Paul Walsh)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

• Current issues in immunisation
  • Measles-Mumps-Rubella immunisation, autism and inflammatory bowel disease: update
    (Janaki Amin and Melanie Wong)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 17KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (Pertussis, measles and rubella)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 24KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 40KB)
    
  • Additional reports (National Influenza Surveillance 1999, Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme, HIV and AIDS Surveillance, Childhood Immunisation Coverage)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 46KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

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Volume 23 Number 7 - 8 July 1999 (PDF file 298KB)

• Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 1998
  (Linda Halliday, Leslee Roberts, Alan Hampson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 192KB)

• Typhoid fever, update
  - Also available as a (PDF file 5KB)

• Annual report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1998
  (The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 47KB)

• Rotavirus diversity: what surveillance will tell us
  (Paul Masendycz, Enzo Palombo, Graeme Barnes, Ruth Bishop)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 24KB)

• Enterovirus 71 outbreak in Western Australia associated with acute flaccid paralysis
  (Peter McMinn, Ivan Stratov, Gary Dowse)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 16KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (Meningococcal disease, ross river virus)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 19KB)
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 40KB)
  • Additional reports (National Influenza Surveillance 1999, HIV and AIDS Surveillance)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 30KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

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Volume 23 Number 6 - 10 June 1999 (PDF file 240KB)

• Immunisation coverage in Australia children: a systematic review 1990-1998
  (Susan Lister, Peter B McIntyre, Margaret A Burgess, Eddie D O'Brien)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 155KB)

• Cryptosporidium in water
  (Robert Douglas and Martha Sinclair)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 30KB)

• Typhoid fever - urgent health alert
  - Also available as a (PDF file 35KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (measles, leptospirosis)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 35KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 40KB)
    
  • Additional reports (Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme, HIV and AIDS Surveillance)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 37KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

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Volume 23 Number 5 - 13 May 1999 (PDF file 406KB)

• Hepatitis A in Australia in the 1990s: future directions in surveillance and control
  (Janaki Amin, Tim Heath and Stephen Morrell)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 139KB)

• The epidemiology of acute hepatitis A in North Queensland, 1996-1997
  (Anthony Merritt, Dorothy Symons and Marlene Griffiths)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 132KB)

• Report of the Australian National Polio Reference Laboratory, 1 January to 31 December 1998
  (Margery Kennett, Kerri Anne Brussen, Vicki Stambos, Ann Turnbull, Aishah Ibrahim and Heath Kelly)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 39KB)

• Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance - Australia Progress Report 1995-1998
  (Rennie D'Souza, Margery Kennett, Jayne Antony, Helen Longbottom, Elizabeth Elliott)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 35KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (pertussis, measles, Ross River virus, leptospirosis)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 35KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 40KB)
    
  • Additional reports (Adverse Events, HIV and AIDS surveillance)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 37KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

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Volume 23 Number 4 - 15 April 1999 (PDF file 203KB)

• Rubella infection in pregnancy
  (Christopher Coulter, Robyn Wood, Jenny Robson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 33KB)

• Meningococcal disease and the law: does non-notification really happen?
  (Priscilla Robinson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 41KB)

• An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimirium RDNC A045 at a wedding feast in South Australia
  (Peter Brennan, Rosalind Holland, Robert Hall, Scott Cameron)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 33KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights (measles, pertussis)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 15KB)
    
  • Tables (NNDSS, LabVISE, ASPREN, historical data graph)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 45KB)
    
  • Additional reports (HIV and AIDS surveillance, childhood immunisation coverage)
    - Also available as a (PDF file 28KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 22KB)

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Volume 23 Number 3 - 18 March 1999 (PDF file 203KB)

• Reduced susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureas to vancomycin - a review of current knowledge
  (David L Paterson)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 42KB)

• Salmonellosis outbreak, South Australia
  - Also available as a (PDF file 14KB)

• Staphylococcus aureas, will vancomycin resistant strains become common in the future?
  (Peter Collignon)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 20KB)

• Victorian measles outbreak
  - Also available as a (PDF file 13KB)

• Polio eradication
  (Rennie M D'Souza, Elizabeth J Elliott)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 11KB)

• Australia's last reported case of wild poliovirus infection
  (Margery L Kennett, Kerri Anne Brussen, David J Wood, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 29KB)

• Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis
  (Margaret A Burgess, Peter B McIntyre)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 17KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - Also available as a (PDF file29KB)
  • Tables
    - Also available as a (PDF file 37KB)
  • Additional reports
    - Also available as a (PDF file 44KB)

• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 22KB)

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Volume 23 Number 2 - 18 February 1999 (PDF file 380KB)

• A National Measles Surveillance Strategy
  (Tim Heath, Margaret Burgess, Peter McIntyre, Michael Catton)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 122KB)

• Implementing a system of enhanced surveillance for measles in Victoria
  (The Enhanced Measles Surveillance Working Party)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 32KB)

• Early influenza A outbreak in a Sydney nursing home
  - Also available as a (PDF file 14KB)

• Surveillance data in CDI
  - Also available as a (PDF file 142KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - Also available as a (PDF file36KB)
  • Tables
    - Also available as a (PDF file 45KB)
  • Additional reports
    - Also available as a (PDF file 22KB)
• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 22KB)

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Volume 23 Number 1 - 21 January 1999 (PDF file 830KB)

• Australia's notifiable diseases status, 1997
  (Eddie O'Brien, Rennie D'Souza, Nicole Gilroy, Margaret Burgess, Susan Lister, Peter McIntyre, et al)
  - Also available as a (PDF file 757KB)

• Communicable Diseases Surveillance
  • Highlights
    - Also available as a (PDF file10KB)
  • Tables
    - Also available as a (PDF file 32KB)
  • Additional reports
    - Also available as a (PDF file 37KB)
    
• Overseas briefs
  - Also available as a (PDF file 1KB)