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A history of adolescent school based vaccination in Australia.
Authors: Ward K, Quinn H, Menzies R, McIntyre P Abstract As adolescents have become an increasingly prominent target group for vaccination, school-based vaccination has emerged as an efficient and effective method of delivering nationally recommended vaccines to this often hard to reach group. School-based delivery of vaccines has occurred in Australia for over 80 years and has demonstrated advantages over primary care delivery for this part of the population. In the last decade school-based vaccination programs have become routine practice across all Australian states and territories. Using existing recor...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

National tuberculosis advisory committee 2012 committee report.
Authors: Gearside E, National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee PMID: 24168092 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Annual report of the Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory 2012.
Authors: Roberts J, Hobday L, Ibrahim A, Aitken T, Thorley B Abstract In 2012 no cases of poliomyelitis were reported through clinical surveillance in Australia, and poliovirus was not detected through virological surveillance. Australia conducts surveillance for cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in children less than 15 years as the main mechanism to monitor its polio-free status in accordance with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. Cases of AFP in children are notified to the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit or the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance System. In 2012 ...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

EnhancEd invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance working group – quarterly surveillance report.
Authors: Bareja C, Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group PMID: 24340779 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Meningococcal Surveillance Australia reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2013.
Authors: Lahra MM, Enriquez R PMID: 24340780 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

NatioNal Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System tables.
Authors: PMID: 24340781 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Revised surveillance case definitions.
Authors: PMID: 24340782 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia 2006-2010.
This report outlines the major positive impacts of vaccines on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from 2007 to 2010, as well as highlighting areas that require further attention. Hepatitis A disease is now less common in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children than in their non-Indigenous counterparts. Hepatitis A vaccination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children was introduced in 2005 in the high incidence jurisdictions of the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. In 2002–2005, there were 20 hospitalisations for hepatitis A in Aboriginal and To...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Polio anywhere is a risk everywhere.
Authors: Durrheim DN, Adams A PMID: 25219383 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Australia's polio risk.
Authors: Martin N, Paterson BJ, Durrheim DN Abstract Australia, like all polio-free countries and regions, remains at risk of a wild poliovirus importation until polio is eradicated globally. The most probable route of importation will be through a traveller arriving in Australia either by air or sea from a polio-endemic or re-infected country. While the overall risk of an imported wild poliovirus infection leading to transmission within Australia is assessed as being low, some areas of the country have been identified as at increased risk. Local areas with relatively high arrivals from polio endemic count...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Ross River virus infection surveillance in the Greater Perth Metropolitan area--has there been an increase in cases in the winter months?
Authors: Selvey LA, Donnelly JA, Lindsay MD, PottumarthyBoddu S, D'Abrera VC, Smith DW Abstract An increase in off-season (June to September) Ross River virus (RRV) notifications from the greater Perth metropolitan area was observed from 2006 to 2009. We investigated the increase to determine whether it is likely to have reflected a true increase in off-season cases. A single positive RRV IgM test result is sufficient for RRV notification but where follow-up testing was performed, the positive predictive value of an IgM test where IgG was negative was very low in the off-season and also in the season when ...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Arboviral diseases and malaria in Australia, 2011-12: annual report of the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee.
Authors: Knope KE, Doggett SL, Kurucz N, Johansen CA, Nicholson J, Feldman R, Sly A, Hobby M, El Saadi D, Muller M, Jansen CC, Muzari OM, National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee Abstract The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System received notifications for 7,875 cases of disease transmitted by mosquitoes during the 2011-12 season (1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012). The alphaviruses Barmah Forest virus and Ross River virus accounted for 6,036 (77%) of these. There were 18 notifications of dengue virus infection acquired in Australia and 1,390 cases that were acquired overseas, while for 38 ca...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Influenza epidemiology, vaccine coverage and vaccine effectiveness in sentinel Australian hospitals in 2013: the Influenza Complications Alert Network.
This report summarises the epidemiology of hospitalisations with confirmed influenza, estimates vaccine coverage and influenza vaccine protection against hospitalisation with influenza during the 2013 influenza season. In this observational study, cases were defined as patients admitted to one of the sentinel hospitals, with influenza confirmed by nucleic acid testing. Controls were patients who had acute respiratory illnesses who were test-negative for influenza. Vaccine effectiveness was estimated as 1 minus the odds ratio of vaccination in case patients compared with control patients, after adjusting for known confounde...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 1 January to 31 March 2014.
Authors: PMID: 25222209 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 July to 30 September cohort, assessed as at 31 December 2013.
Authors: Hull BP PMID: 25222210 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - December 2, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research