Contents
This issue is available as a full PDF file (1041 KB) or by individual articles below.
Annual reports
• Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia 2007 and 2008
(Christina Barry, Vicki L Krause, Heather M Cook, Robert I Menzies)
• Annual Report of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 2011
(Monica M Lahra for the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme)
• Surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia: update to December 2011
(Genevieve M Klug, Alison Boyd, Amelia McGlade, Christiane Stehmann, Marion Simpson, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins)
Peer-reviewed articles
• An outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Torres Strait
(Annie Preston-Thomas, Richard W Gair, Kelly A Hosking, Gregor J Devine, Steven D Donohue)
Short reports
• Surveillance of potential rabies exposure in Australian travellers returning to South East Queensland
(Heidi J Carroll, Brad J McCall, Jason C Christiansen)
Quarterly reports
• OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 July to 30 September 2011
(The OzFoodNet Working Group)
• Communicable Diseases Surveillance

• Table 1 (NNDSS jurisdictions)
• Table 2 (NNDSS notifications)
• Table 3 (NNDSS rates)
• Additional reports
  (Childhood immunisation, ASPREN, gonococcal surveillance, HIV/AIDS, meningococcal surveillance)

Administration

• New features for the Communicable Diseases Intelligence web site

Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI) is a quarterly publication of the Communicable Disease and Surveillance Branch, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

CDI aims to disseminate information on the epidemiology and control of communicable disease in Australia. CDI objectives are:

• To provide current surveillance intelligence on communicable diseases in Australia accompanied by interpretation and expert commentary.
• To publish articles describing communicable disease surveillance and control and communicable disease epidemiology in Australia.
• To publish significant strategic documents relevant to the surveillance and control of communicable disease in Australia.

From July 2011 CDI is published electronically only and is available in two formats:

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