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Editorial

Announcement of a change in CDI’s editorship

CDI Editorial Team || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.31 || Published online: 15/4/2020
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Policy and guidelines

Revised guidelines for Australian laboratories performing mycobacteriology testing

Ivan Bastian, Lisa Shephard, Richard Lumb, and the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.2 || Published online: 15/1/2020 || Last updated: 27/5/2021
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Notice to readers

Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use in Timor-Leste: building surveillance capacity with a One Health approach

Joshua R Francis, Nevio Sarmento, Anthony D K Draper, Ian Marr, Shawn Ting, Nicholas Fancourt, Lucsendar Alves, Karen Champlin, Alexander Bongers and Jennifer Yan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.1 || Published online: 15/1/2020
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Original articles

An evaluation of enhanced surveillance of hospitalised COVID-19 patients to inform the public health response in Victoria

Stephanie J Curtis, Zoe Cutcher, Judith A Brett, Simon Burrell, Michael J Richards, Daneeta Hennessy, Rebecca F Gang, Colleen L Lau, Stacey L Rowe || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.98 || Published online: 24/12/2020
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Hospital outcomes after a COVID-19 diagnosis from January to May 2020 in New South Wales Australia

Bette Liu, Paula Spokes, Maria Alfaro-Ramirez, Kate Ward, John Kaldor || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.97 || Published online: 24/12/2020
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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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.86 || Published online: 25/11/2020
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The effect of COVID-19 public health measures on nationally notifiable diseases in Australia: preliminary analysis

Amy Bright, Anna-Jane Glynn-Robinson, Stacey Kane, Rose Wright and Nathan Saul || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.85 || Published online: 5/11/2020
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Severe community-acquired pneumonia due to Streptococcus pyogenes in the Newcastle area

Paul A Wilson, Hemalatha Varadhan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.82 || Published online: 15/10/2020
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Retrospective analysis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis case notifications in Australia (1999–2018)

Hendrik S Camphor, Kerri Viney, Ben Polkinghorne, Kate Pennington || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.68 || Published online: 17/8/2020
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Australian mumps serosurvey 2012–2013: any cause for concern?

Cyra Patel, Frank Beard, Alexandra Hendry, Helen Quinn, Aditi Dey, Kristine Macartney, Linda Hueston, Dominic E Dwyer, Peter McIntyre || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.67 || Published online: 17/8/2020
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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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.59 || Published online: 15/7/2020
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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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.48 || Published online: 15/6/2020
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Risk perceptions, misperceptions and sexual behaviours among young heterosexual people with gonorrhoea in Perth, Western Australia.

Roanna Lobo, Josephine Rayson, Jonathan Hallett, Donna B. Mak || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.41 || Published online: 18/5/2020
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The geography of Ross River virus infection in South Australia, 2000-2013

Jingwen Liu, Alana Hansen, Scott Cameron and Peng Bi || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.39 || Published online: 18/5/2020
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Scientific evidence supporting recommendations on the use of the 9-valent HPV vaccine in a 2-dose vaccine schedule in Australia

Peter Wnukowski-Mtonga, Sanjay Jayasinghe, Clayton Chiu, Kristine Macartney, Julia Brotherton, Basil Donovan, Madeline Hall, David W Smith, Karen Peterson, Sue Campbell-Lloyd, Christine Selvey, Michelle Giles, John Kaldor and Helen Marshall on behalf of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.33 || Published online: 15/4/2020
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Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease, 2000–2017

Julia E Maguire, Frank Beard, Kelley Méder, Aditi Dey, Kristine Macartney, Peter McIntyre || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.11 || Published online: 17/2/2020
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Reports

Surveillance summary

Buruli ulcer: a new case definition for Victoria

Juliana M Betts, Ee Laine Tay, Paul D R Johnson, Caroline J Lavender, Katherine B Gibney, Daniel P O’Brien, Maria Globan, Nectaria Tzimourtas, Miriam A O’Hara, Simon R Crouch || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.93 || Published online: 21/12/2020
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Short reports

Physical distancing and non-respiratory notifiable diseases in the Northern Territory, March-May 2020

Ouli Xie, Peter G Markey, Anthony D K Draper, Vicki L Krause || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.90 || Published online: 25/11/2020
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A fatal case of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli linked to a private drinking water supply

Rebecca M Schack, Mark Handby, Joy Gregory, Nela Subasinghe, Shaun P Coutts || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.89 || Published online: 25/11/2020
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High COVID-19 attack rate among attendees of wedding events in Bali, Indonesia, March 2020

Bhavi Ravindran, Freya Hogarth, Kirsten Williamson, Rose Wright, Martyn Kirk, Craig Dalton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.76 || Published online: 16/9/2020
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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 for the Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.66 || Published online: 15/9/2020
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Identifying early changes in influenza vaccination uptake following a government funded immunisation program using a participatory community surveillance program

Sarah A Moberley, Sandra J Carlson, David N Durrheim and Craig B Dalton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.57 || Published online: 15/7/2020
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Asymptomatic COVID-19 or are we missing something?

Jazmin K Daniells, Helen L MacCallum, David N Durrheim || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.55 || Published online: 9/7/2020
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The first 2 months of COVID-19 contact tracing in the Northern Territory of Australia, March–April 2020

Anthony DK Draper, Karen E Dempsey, Rowena H Boyd, Emma M Childs, Hayley M Black, Laura A Francis, Peter G Markey, Vicki L Krause || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.53 || Published online: 2/7/2020
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Acute flaccid myelitis – has it gone unrecognised in Australian children?

Junchao Bao, Bruce Thorley, Elizabeth J Elliott, Peter McIntyre and Philip N Britton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.22 || Published online: 16/3/2020
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Quarterly reports

Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2020

Monica M. Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.95 || Published online: 21/12/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 July to 30 September 2020

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.96 || Published online: 21/12/2020
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Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2020

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari and Sanghamitra Ray || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.81 || Published online: 15/10/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 July to 30 September 2019

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.73 || Published online: 15/9/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 April to 30 June 2020

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.74 || Published online: 15/9/2020
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Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2020

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoustari, Tiffany R. Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.65 || Published online: 17/8/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 January to 31 March 2020

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.61 || Published online: 15/7/2020
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Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2019

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.50 || Published online: 15/6/2020
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Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2019

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.47 || Published online: 15/6/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2019

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.37 || Published online: 18/5/2020
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Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance, 1 April to 30 June 2019

Kate Pennington and the Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group, for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.38 || Published online: 18/5/2020
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Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance, 1 July to 30 September 2019

Kate Pennington and the Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group, for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.40 || Published online: 18/5/2020
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Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2019

Monica M Lahra and Rodney Enriquez for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.9 || Published online: 17/2/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 April to 30 June 2018

Monica M Lahra, Rodney P Enriquez and CR Robert George for The National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.5 || Published online: 17/2/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 January to 31 March 2019

Monica M Lahra and Rodney P Enriquez for The National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.3 || Published online: 17/2/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 January to 31 March 2017

Monica M Lahra and Rodney P Enriquez for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.8 || Published online: 15/1/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 April to 30 June 2017

Monica M Lahra and Rodney P Enriquez for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.7 || Published online: 15/1/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 July to 30 September 2017

Monica M Lahra and Rodney P Enriquez on behalf of The National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.6 || Published online: 15/1/2020
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Annual reports

Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2019

Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim, Matthew E Kaye, Leesa Bruggink, Presa Chanthalavanh, Arnau Garcia-Clapes, Jason A Roberts, Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.94 || Published online: 21/12/2020
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Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Gram-negative Sepsis Outcome Programme (GNSOP) Annual Report 2019

Jan M Bell, Alicia Fajardo Lubian, Sally Partridge, Thomas Gottlieb, Jonathan Iredell, Denise A Daley, Geoffrey W Coombs || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.80 || Published online: 15/10/2020
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Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Gram-negative Sepsis Outcome Programme (GNSOP) Annual Report 2018

Jan M Bell, Thomas Gottlieb, Denise A Daley, Geoffrey W Coombs || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.79 || Published online: 15/10/2020
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Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme (ASSOP) Annual Report 2019

Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus and Stanley Pang, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.71 || Published online: 15/9/2020
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Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme (AESOP) Annual Report 2019

Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, Stanley Pang || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.72 || Published online: 15/9/2020
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Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) Annual Surveillance Report 2019

Suzy M Teutsch, Carlos A Nunez, Anne Morris, Skye McGregor, Jonathan King, Julia ML Brotherton, Daniel Novakovic, Robert Booy, Cheryl A Jones, William Rawlinson, Bruce R Thorley and Elizabeth J Elliott || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.60 || Published online: 17/8/2020
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Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme annual report, 2019

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.62 || Published online: 17/8/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2019

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, CR Robert George, Benjamin H Armstrong and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.58 || Published online: 15/7/2020
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance in Australia Annual Report: December 2019

Christiane Stehmann, Matteo Senesi, Shannon Sarros, Amelia McGlade, Marion Simpson, Genevieve Klug, Catriona McLean, Colin L Masters and Steven Collins || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.56 || Published online: 15/7/2020
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SAEFVIC: Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) in Victoria, Australia, 2018

Hazel J Clothier, Jock Lawrie, Georgina Lewis, Melissa Russell, Nigel W Crawford and Jim P Buttery || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.46 || Published online: 15/6/2020
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Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) 2017 and 2018: Prospective hospital-based surveillance for serious paediatric conditions

Jocelynne E McRae, Helen E Quinn, Gemma L Saravanos, Samantha J Carlson, Philip N Britton, Nigel W Crawford, Nicholas J Wood, Helen S Marshall and Kristine K Macartney on behalf of the PAEDS network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.49 || Published online: 15/6/2020
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Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2018

Jason A Roberts, Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim and Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.26 || Published online: 15/4/2020
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Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2017

Jason A Roberts, Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim and Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.32 || Published online: 15/04/2020
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Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2016

Jason A Roberts, Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim and Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.25 || Published online: 15/04/2020
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Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2015

Jason A Roberts, Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim, Thomas Aitken and Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.24 || Published online: 15/04/2020
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Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme (ASSOP) Annual Report 2018

Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, Yung Thin Lee and Stanley Pang, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.18 || Published online: 16/3/2020
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Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme (AESOP) Annual Report 2018

Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, Yung Thin Lee and Stanley Pang, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.19 || Published online: 16/3/2020
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Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia: annual report, 2018

Aditi Dey, Han Wang, Helen Quinn, Alexis Pillsbury, Catherine Glover, Megan Hickie, Nicholas Wood, Frank Beard and Kristine Macartney || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.12 || Published online: 16/3/2020
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Report on influenza viruses received and tested by the Melbourne WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in 2018

Olivia H Price, Natalie Spirason, Cleve Rynehart, Sook Kwan Brown, Angela Todd, Heidi Peck, Manisha Patel, Sally Soppe, Ian G Barr and Michelle K Chow || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.16 || Published online: 16/3/2020
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Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme annual report, 2018

Monica M Lahra, Rodney Enriquez and Tiffany Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.10 || Published online: 16/3/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2018

Monica M Lahra, Rodney Enriquez and CR Robert George for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.4 || Published online: 17/2/2020
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Multi-year report

Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2015–2018

Amy Bright, Justin T Denholm, Chris Coulter, Justin Waring and Rick Stapledon on behalf of the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee, for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia and the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.88 || Published online: 25/11/2020
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Letter to the Editor

Influenza vaccination uptake in our most vulnerable groups: how well are we protecting them in 2019?

Frank Beard, Alexandra Hendry, Kristine Macartney || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.27 || Published online: 15/4/2020
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CDI 2020 - Volume 44 Reviewers

The CDI staff wish to thank the following reviewers for their valued assistance throughout the year:

Trish Campbell, Allison Carter, Clayton Chiu, Eric P F Chow, Geoffrey Coombs, Shaun Coutts, Adam Craig, Mark Davies, David De Oliveira, Wayne Dimech, Stephen Doggett, Anthony Draper, Christopher K Fairley, Josh Francis, Heather F Gidding, Rona Hiam, Katie Hobbs, Tambri Housen, Vanessa Johnston, Kypros Kypri, Robert Leong, Ben Marais, Sam McEwen, Lisa McHugh, Sonali Meena, Sarah Moberley, Anthony Moore, Rob Moss, David Muscatello, Bridget O'Connor, Harunor Rashid, William Rawlinson, Nathan Ryder, Ari Samaranayaka, Ramon Z Shaban, Paul Simpson, Timothy Sloan-Gardner, Mitchell Smith, Paula Spokes, Maryke S Steffens, Sheena Sullivan, Polly Wallace, Michael Walsh, Darren Westphal, Nicholas Wood, Alyson Wright, Muhammad Yasir and Peta-Anne Zimmerman


Editorial team

The editorial team consists of the editor, deputy editor, and a designer. The editorial team is supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB). Details of the EAB's then-current composition can be found within any article published in CDI during this year. The EAB's present-day composition, and a description of the role of the EAB, is detailed on CDI's front page.

Editors:
Tanja Farmer
Cindy Toms
Deputy Editor:
Simon Petrie
Design and Production: Kasra Yousefi


Correspondence

Correspondence should be sent to: cdi.editor@health.gov.au


ISSN

ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)


Disclaimer

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