Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report 
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Authors: Lahra MM, Enriquez RP
PMID: 28043234 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network, 1 July to 30 September 2016.
Authors: Chilver MB, Blakeley D, Stocks NP
PMID: 28043235 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance, 1 April to 30 June 2016.
Authors: Glynn-Robinson A, Pennington K, Toms C, and the Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group, for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia
PMID: 28043236 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance, 1 July to 30 September 2016.
Authors: Corvisy R, Hood J, and the Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group, for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia
PMID: 28043237 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
An evaluation of the use of short message service during an avian influenza outbreak on a poultry farm in Young.
Authors: Stephenson LM, Biggs JS, Sheppeard V, Oakman TL
Abstract
In 2013 an avian influenza outbreak occurred in a large poultry farm in Young (approximately 2 hours north-west of Canberra.) The responsible strain was H7N2, which is highly pathogenic and can affect humans. Daily surveillance was required for those individuals who were possibly exposed. This was conducted through the use of daily message through the short message service (SMS). A total of 55 people were identified as having had high risk exposure and requiring monitoring during the surveillance period from 16 to 25 October 2013. A SMS me...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Q fever and contact with kangaroos in New South Wales.
Authors: Flint J, Dalton CB, Merritt TD, Graves S, Ferguson JK, Osbourn M, Eastwood K, Durrheim DN
PMID: 27522129 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Estimates of influenza vaccine coverage from Victorian surveillance systems based in the community, primary care and hospitals.
Authors: Coghlan B, Kelly HA, Carlson SJ, Grant KA, Leder K, Dalton CB, Cheng AC
PMID: 27522130 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to December 2014.
Authors: Klug GM, Boyd A, Sarros S, Stehmann C, Simpson M, McLean C, Masters CL, Collins SJ
Abstract
Nation-wide surveillance of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases), the most common being Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is performed by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, based at the University of Melbourne. Prospective surveillance has been undertaken since 1993 and over this dynamic period in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy research and understanding, the unit has evolved and adapted to changes in surveillance practices and requirement...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit annual report, 2014.
Authors: Deverell M, Zurynski Y, Elliott E, all chief investigators of APSU surveillance studies
PMID: 27522132 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme annual report, 2014.
Authors: Lahra MM, Enriquez RP
Abstract
In 2014 there were 165 laboratory-confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease analysed by the Australian National Neisseria Network. This number was higher than the number reported in 2013, but was the second lowest reported since inception of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme in 1994. Probable and laboratory confirmed invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) are notifiable in Australia, and there were 170 IMD cases notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) in 2014. This was also higher than in 2013, but was the seco...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance Australian Enterobacteriaceae Sepsis Outcome Programme annual report, 2014.
Authors: Bell JM, Turnidge JD, Coombs GW, Daley DA, Gottlieb T, Robson J, George N
Abstract
The Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance performs regular period-prevalence studies to monitor changes in antimicrobial resistance in selected enteric Gram-negative pathogens. The 2014 survey was the second year to focus on blood stream infections. During 2014, 5,798 Enterobacteriaceae species isolates were tested using commercial automated methods (Vitek 2, BioMérieux; Phoenix, BD) and results were analysed using the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Committee on Antimicrobial...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme annual report, 2014.
In conclusion, the AESOP 2014 has shown enterococcal bacteraemias in Australia are frequently caused by polyclonal ampicillin-resistant high-level gentamicin resistant vanA or vanB E. faecium, which have limited treatment options.
PMID: 27522135 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme annual report, 2014.
Authors: Coombs GW, Daley DA, Thin Lee Y, Pearson JC, Robinson JO, Nimmo GR, Collignon P, Howden BP, Bell JM, Turnidge JD, Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
Abstract
From 1 January to 31 December 2014, 27 institutions around Australia participated in the Australian Staphylococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme (ASSOP). The aim of ASSOP 2014 was to determine the proportion of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) isolates in Australia that are antimicrobial resistant, with particular emphasis on susceptibility to methicillin and to characterise the molecular epidemiology of the isolates. Overall, 18....
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Australian trachoma surveillance annual report, 2013.
This report presents data collected in 2013. Data are collected from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities designated at-risk for endemic trachoma within New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. The World Health Organization grading criteria were used to diagnose cases of trachoma in Aboriginal children, with jurisdictions focusing screening activities on the 5-9 years age group; but some children in the 1-4 and 10-14 years age groups were also screened. The prevalence of trachoma within a community was used to guide treatment strategies as a public health response. Aborigin...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2011 and 2012.
Authors: Toms C, de Kluyver R, Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia
Abstract
In Australia, there were 1,883 cases (8.3 per 100,000 population) of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) in 2011 and 1,823 cases (8.0 per 100,000) in 2012. The overall rate of IPD in Indigenous Australians was 9 times the rate of IPD in non-Indigenous Australians in 2011 and 7 times in 2012. Following the July 2011 introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (13vPCV...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - August 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research
