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Australia's notifiable disease status, 2014: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
Authors: NNDSS Annual Report Working Group Abstract In 2014, 69 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 275,581 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 22% on the number of notifications in 2013. In 2014, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (105,719 notifications, 38% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (101,400 notifications, 37% of total notifications), and gastrointestinal diseases (40,367 notifications, 15% ...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - April 16, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Infectious and congenital syphilis notifications associated with an ongoing outbreak in northern Australia.
Authors: Bright A, Dups J PMID: 27080030 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - April 16, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Australian childhood immunisation coverage, 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015, assessed as at 30 June 2015.
Authors: Hull BP PMID: 26779727 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance Australia, 1 July to 30 September 2015.
Authors: de Kluyver R, Toms C, Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group, for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia PMID: 26779728 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Was infectious syphilis being misclassified in remote Australian outbreaks? Evidence that informed modification of the national case definition.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: The national case definition for infectious syphilis applied in this remote Australian outbreak underestimated infectious cases when compared with experienced clinicians' evaluation by up to 76 cases (42%) and was inadequate to monitor the magnitude of a syphilis outbreak in such a setting. This may compromise surveillance and resource allocation decisions, and could reduce the capacity to interrupt transmission and contain an outbreak. A revised national case definition, informed by this analysis, was released by CDNA in July 2015. PMID: 26779729 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communi...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Treatment of latent tuberculosis in migrants to Victoria.
We report a retrospective database review of the Migrant Screening Clinic, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Disorders Medicine at Western Health Footscray Hospital during the years 1996-2006. Of 7,225 migrants aged less than 35 years, tuberculin skin testing (TST) was performed for 3,589 (49.7%), including 2,641 (65.6%) of 4,024 migrants under 35 years with an abnormal chest radiograph, and 2,297 (59.0%) of 3,893 migrants born in a high-burden country. Of 3,589 persons with both chest radiograph and TST results, 1,487 (41.4%) were referred for follow-up, including 81.3% of those with TST ≥10 mm. Outcome data were avai...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System surveillance report: Sexually transmissible infections in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Authors: Bright A PMID: 26779731 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

An Australian guideline on the diagnosis of overseas-acquired Lyme disease/borreliosis.
Authors: Lum GD, Hood JR, Wright P PMID: 26779732 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Policy recommendation: latent tuberculosis infection screening and treatment in children in immigration detention.
Authors: Krause V, National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee PMID: 26779733 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Revised surveillance case definitions: Barmah Forest virus infection; Ross River virus infection; congenital syphilis; salmonellosis.
Authors: PMID: 26779734 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

New surveillance case definition; paratyphoid.
Authors: PMID: 26779735 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Influenza viruses received and tested by the Melbourne WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza annual report, 2014.
Authors: Sullivan SG, Chow MK, Barr IG, Kelso A Abstract The WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne is part of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System. In 2014 the Centre received a total of 5,374 influenza samples from laboratories primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. Viruses were characterised by their antigenic, genetic and antiviral drug resistance properties. Of the viruses successfully analysed 52% were A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses. The majority of these were antigenically and genetically similar to the WHO recommended re...
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 January to 31 March 2014.
Authors: OzFoodNet Working Group PMID: 26779737 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 1 July to 30 September 2015.
Authors: PMID: 26779738 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 April to 30 June 2015.
Authors: Lahra MM, Enriquez RP, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, for The National Neisseria Network PMID: 26779739 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report)
Source: Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report - January 20, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep Source Type: research