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Editorial

New primary production and processing standards developed to reduce foodborne illness risks

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.60 || Published online: 23/10/2024
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Commentary

Learning from COVID-19: strengthening Australia’s research capacity through preparedness and collaboration

Miranda Z Smith, Janelle Bowden, Linda Cristine, Anthony L Cunningham, John Kaldor, Sharon R Lewin, Andrew Singer, Robyn L Ward, Tania C Sorrell || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.58 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 269 KB) (Word 192 KB)

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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.47 || Published online: 17/07/2024
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Letters to the Editor

A comparison of post-COVID vaccine myocarditis classification using the Brighton Collaboration criteria versus (United States) Centers for Disease Control criteria: an update

Kevin M Slater, Jim P Buttery, Nigel W Crawford, Daryl R Cheng || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.18 || Published online: 28/03/2024
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Original articles

Fresh produce-associated foodborne disease outbreaks in Australia, 2001 to 2017

Joanna G Rothwell, Rhiannon Wallace, Mark Bradbury, Laura Ford, Kathryn Glass, Robyn McConchie, Dee Carter, Martyn D Kirk || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.19 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 563 KB) (Word 345 KB)

Validation of a risk stratification tool for SARS-CoV-2 Delta community transmission in the Australian Capital Territory

Alexandra Marmor, Tze Vun Voo, Meru Sheel, Timothy Sloan-Gardner, Nevada Pingault || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.40 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 270 KB) (Word 152 KB)

An outbreak of double carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, harbouring NDM-5 and OXA-48 genes, at a tertiary hospital in Canberra, Australia

Malizgani Mhango, Frances Sheehan, Alexandra Marmor, Callum Thirkell, Karina Kennedy || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.50 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 299 KB) (Word 198 KB)

Gonococcal infections and risk factors for reinfection: a descriptive and case-case analysis of notifications in the Australian Capital Territory, 2017–2022M

Jill Padrotta, Alexandra Marmor, Nevada Pingault, Davoud Pourmarzi || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.51 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 327 KB) (Word 212 KB)

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, Stacey Rowe, Sheena Sullivan, Vinay Menon, Daniel West, Lakshmi Manoharan, Eliza Copsey, Suman S Majumdar, Brett Sutton, Deborah A Williamson, Jodie McVernon || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.28 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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Australian Group on Antimicrobial Research surveillance outcome programs – bloodstream infections and antimicrobial resistance patterns from patients less than 18 years of age, January 2020 – December 2021

Anita Williams, Geoffrey W Coombs, Jan Bell, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, Penelope A Bryant, Anita J Campbell, Louise Cooley, Jon Iredell, Adam D Irwin, Alison Kesson, Brendan McMullan, Morgyn S Warner, Phoebe Williams, Christopher C Blyth || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.32 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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Comorbidities and confusion: addressing COVID-19 vaccine access and information challenges

Katie Attwell, Leah Roberts, Christopher C Blyth || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.33 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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Respiratory diphtheria in the time of Omicron

Annabeth Simpson, Paul Douglas, Jenny Draper, Vitali Sintchenko, Zoe Cutcher, Daniel Ashton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.41 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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Mycoplasma genitalium retrospective audit of Northern Territory isolates from 2022

Kate Proudmore, Manoji Gunathilake, Lucy Crawford, Kevin Freeman, Dimitrios Menouhos, Rob Baird || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.43 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.46 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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Age of hepatitis B e antigen loss in Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous residents of tropical Australia; implications for clinical care

Liana Neldner, Sharna Radlof, Simon Smith, Margaret Littlejohn, Allison Hempenstall, Josh Hanson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.48 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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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 ||https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.26 || Published online: 17/07/2024
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Tracking trends in the Top End: clindamycin and erythromycin resistance in Group A Streptococcus in the Northern Territory, 2012–2023

Joanne Nixon, Jann Hennessey, Rob Baird ||https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.31 || Published online: 17/07/2024
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Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: Hepatitis B, 2000–2019

Nicole Sonneveld, Joanne Jackson, Aditi Dey, Stephen Lambert, Katrina Clark, Benjamin Cowie, Kristine Macartney, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.44 || Published online: 24/06/2024
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Pertussis notifications decline in Australia during COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions, 2020–2021

Saskia van der Kooi, Frank Beard, Aditi Dey, Peter McIntyre, Chrissy Imai, Janaki Amin ||https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.24 || Published online: 24/06/2024
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Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in Central Queensland, Australia

Emma Gale, Nicolas Smoll, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, Jacina Walker, Michael Kirk, Sunday Pam, Robert Menzies, Gulam Khandaker || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.45 || Published online: 24/06/2024
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Outbreak reports

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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.49 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 278 KB) (Word 196 KB)

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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.30 || Published online: 21/08/2024
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Investigation and response to an outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y ST-1466 urogenital infections, Australia

MM Lahra, NH Latham, DJ Templeton, P Read, C Carmody, N Ryder, SE Ellis, EF Madden, A Parasuraman, J Wells, V Sheppeard, BH Armstrong, J Holland, S Pendle, N Sherry, L Leong, L Papanicolas, CE Selvey, SJ Van Hal || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.20 || Published online: 10/04/2024
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The first confirmed outbreak of chikungunya reported in Timor-Leste, 2024

Filipe de Neri Machado, Anthony DK Draper, Anferida Monteiro Fernandes, Frederico Bosco Alves dos Santos, Marcelo Amaral Mali, Ari J Pereira Tilman, Endang Soares da Silva, Elizabeth Hornay, Antonio Salles de Sousa, Tessa Oakley, Edinha da Cruz, Nevio Sarmento, Maria AV Niha, Ana Fatima Soares, Eva Estrelita Cardoso Gomes, Jose de Deus Alves, Jose Paulo Soares, Joshua R Francis, Jennifer Yan, Merita Antonio Monteiro || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.17 || Published online: 10/04/2024
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A brief description of the epidemiology of dengue in Dili, Timor-Leste, 2018–2022

Filipe de Neri Machado, Anthony DK Draper, Frederico Bosco Alves dos Santos, Marcelo Amaral Mali, Ari J Pereira Tilman, Endang Soares da Silva, Noel Gama Soares, Nevio Sarmento, Maria AV Niha, Ana Fatima Soares, Abdoulie Taal, Joshua R Francis, Jennifer Yan, Megge Miller, James Flint || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.16 || Published online: 10/04/2024
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Case reports

To B or not to B: how the hepatitis B surveillance case definition can misdirect public health actions

Anna B Pierce, Simon Crouch, Adrian Alexander, Joe Sasadeusz, Edura Jalil, Victor Au Yeung, Aswan Tai, Rhonda L Stuart || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.39 || Published online: 17/07/2024
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A severe case of swimmer’s itch in Victoria, Australia with bullous eruption

Michael Sangiorgio, Karen Liu, Lachlan Lau, Charlotte Krones, Adrian Tramontana, James Molton, Alex Nirenberg || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.8 || Published online: 10/04/2024
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Surveillance summaries

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 || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.36 || Published online: 23/10/2024 Full Text: (PDF 554 KB) (Word 171 KB)

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

Leesa D Bruggink, Bruce Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.29 || Published online: 17/07/2024
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Review articles

ATAGI Targeted Review 2023: Vaccination for prevention of influenza in Australia

Chisato Imai, Sanjay Jayasinghe, Jocelynne McRae, Jean Li-Kim-Moy, Clayton Chiu, Kristine Macartney, Penelope Burns, Kristy Cooper, Allen C Cheng, Katherine Gibney, Michelle Giles, Cheryl Jones, Tony Korman, Bette Liu, Nigel W Crawford on behalf of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.25 || Published online: 17/07/2024
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Annual reports

Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia annual report, 2021

Catherine Glover, Lucy Deng, Claire Larter, Catherine Brogan, Olivia Richardson, Yuanfei Anny Huang, Elspeth Kay, Kristine Macartney and Nicholas Wood || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.1 || Published online: 24/06/2024
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Surveillance of adverse effects following immunisation in Australia, COVID-19 vaccines, 2021

Catherine Glover, Lucy Deng, Claire Larter, Catherine Brogan, Olivia Richardson, Yuanfei Anny Huang, Elspeth Kay, Kristine Macartney and Nicholas Wood || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.2 ||Published online: 24/06/2024
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Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program Annual Report, 2022

Celeste M Donato, Susie Roczo-Farkas, Sarah Thomas, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Eleanor A Lyons, Julie E Bines and the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Group || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.27 || Published online: 24/06/2024
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Quarterly reports

Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2023

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.23 || Published online: 13/05/2024
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Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2023

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.22 || Published online: 13/05/2024
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Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2023

Monica M Lahra, Prashanthi Sai Krishnan and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.21 || Published online: 13/05/2024
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 October to 31 December 2023

Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.15 || Published online: 13/05/2024
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2023

Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.14 || Published online: 28/03/2024
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2023

Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.13 || Published online: 28/03/2024
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 January to 31 March 2023

Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.12 || Published online: 28/03/2024
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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.

Editor: Christina Bareja
Deputy Editor: Simon Petrie
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ISSN

ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)


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