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Original articles

Severe community-acquired pneumonia due to Streptococcus pyogenes in the Newcastle area

Paul A Wilson, Hemalatha Varadhan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.82 || Published online: 15/10/2020
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Short report

An outbreak of serotype-1 sequence type 306 invasive pneumococcal disease in an Australian Indigenous population

Heather M Cook, Carolien M Giele, Sanjay H Jayasinghe, Angela Wakefield, Vicki L Krause for the Enhanced Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance Working Group
https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.66 || Published online: 15/9/2020 Full Text: (Word 725.49 KB) (PDF 3.17 MB)

High COVID-19 attack rate among attendees of wedding events in Bali, Indonesia, March 2020

Bhavi Ravindran, Freya Hogarth, Kirsten Williamson, Rose Wright, Martyn Kirk, Craig Dalton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.76 || Published online: 16/9/2020
Full Text: (Word 205.84 KB) (PDF 2.97 MB)

Quarterly reports

Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2020

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari and Sanghamitra Ray || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.81 || Published online: 15/10/2020 Full Text: (Word 69.04 KB) (PDF 2.78 MB)

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 July to 30 September 2019

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.73 || Published online: 15/9/2020
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Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1 April to 30 June 2020

Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.74 || Published online: 15/9/2020
Full Text: (Word 68.49 KB) (PDF 2.8 MB)

Annual reports

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Gram-negative Sepsis Outcome Programme (GNSOP) Annual Report 2019

Jan M Bell, Alicia Fajardo Lubian, Sally Partridge, Thomas Gottlieb, Jonathan Iredell, Denise A Daley, Geoffrey W Coombs || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.80 || Published online: 15/10/2020
Full Text: (Word 114.27 KB) (PDF 2.92 MB)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Gram-negative Sepsis Outcome Programme (GNSOP) Annual Report 2018

Jan M Bell, Thomas Gottlieb, Denise A Daley, Geoffrey W Coombs || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.79 || Published online: 15/10/2020
Full Text: (Word 84.32 KB) (PDF 2.94 MB)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme (ASSOP) Annual Report 2019

Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus and Stanley Pang, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.71 || Published online: 15/9/2020
Full Text: (Word 116.58 KB) (PDF 3.22 MB)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme (AESOP) Annual Report 2019

Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, Stanley Pang || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.72 || Published online: 15/9/2020
Full Text: (Word 92.36 KB) (PDF 2.93 MB)


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