An invitation to contribute

CDI actively invites contributions relating to the occurrence, surveillance, treatment and prevention of communicable disease within Australia. Please consult our Instructions to Authors for submission guidelines and other pertinent information.

Submissions can be directed to the Editor at cdi.editor@health.gov.au

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiological reports

For CDI's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiological reports within Australia, please refer to the Epidemiological reports page. It includes data on notified Australian cases, the international situation and the current understanding of severity, transmission and spread of the infection.

Latest articles

Editorial

Announcement of a change in CDI’s editorship

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.31 || Published online: 19/5/2022
Full Text: (Word 72.03 KB) (PDF 192.07 KB)

Original articles

Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: measles, 2012–2019

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.38 || Published online: 23/6/2022
Full Text: (Word 1.46 MB) (PDF 1.46 MB)

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of legionellosis in Northern Australia, 2010–2021

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.34 || Published online: 23/6/2022
Full Text: (Word 249.03 KB) (PDF 533.72 KB)

Public health response following an iGAS outbreak in a residential aged care facility in Queensland

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.35 || Published online: 23/6/2022
Full Text: (Word 118.28 KB) (PDF 388.4 KB)

How accurately does the Australian Immunisation Register identify children overdue for vaccine doses? A national cross-sectional study

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.10 || Published online: 19/5/2022
Full Text: (Word 193.4 KB) (PDF 432.93 KB)

SMS reminders to improve the uptake and timeliness of the primary immunisation series in infants: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.15 || Published online: 19/5/2022
Full Text: (Word 215.98 KB) (PDF 652.88 KB)

Two Treponema pallidum strains account for the majority of syphilis infections, including among females, in Queensland, Australia

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.26 || Published online: 19/5/2022
Full Text: (Word 719.95 KB) (PDF 1.33 MB)

Scary to get, more scary not to: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers in Central Queensland, Australia, a cross-sectional survey

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.30 || Published online: 19/5/2022
Full Text: (Word 679.06 KB) (PDF 971.98 KB)

Short reports

Vaccine breakthrough infections in a highly-vaccinated Australian population during a SARS-CoV-2 Delta outbreak

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.32 || Published online: 23/6/2022
Full Text: (Word 76.75 KB) (PDF 424.91 KB)

Effect of COVID-19 restrictions and border closures on vaccine preventable diseases in Victoria, Australia, 2020–2021

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.29 || Published online: 19/5/2022
Full Text: (Word 527.54 KB) (PDF 1.09 MB)

Queensland typhoid cluster linked to twelve-year carriage of Salmonella Typhi

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.27 || Published online: 19/5/2022
Full Text: (Word 133.87 KB) (PDF 387.58 KB)

Quarterly report

Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2022

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.36 || Published online: 23/6/2022
Full Text: (Word 72.9 KB) (PDF 277.79 KB)

Multi-year report

Summary of National Surveillance Data on Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Australia, 2016-2018 Final Report

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.28 || Published online: 23/6/2022
Full Text: (Word 4.27 MB) (PDF 2.23 MB)

CDI is a peer-reviewed open-access journal which does not carry page charges. It is listed on MEDLINE, indexed in PubMed, and available full-text on the Australian Government Department of Health  website as well as on the Global Health database (CABI) and the Elsevier services EMBASE and Scopus.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence

Editor: Noel Lally
Deputy editor: Simon Petrie
Design and production: Kasra Yousefi

Editorial Advisory Board:

• David Durrheim
• Mark Ferson
• John Kaldor
• Martyn Kirk
• Linda Selvey

ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)
cdi.editor@health.gov.au

CDI welcomes expressions of interest from potential peer reviewers.

If you would like to register on CDI's reviewer database please contact cdi.editor@health.gov.auv.au

Disclaimer

Opinions expressed in Communicable Diseases Intelligence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Government Department of Health or the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Data may be subject to revision.