Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys, Sian E Ashton, Denise M Murphy
{"title":"Haemolytic uraemic syndrome associated with a family cluster of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli.","authors":"Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys, Sian E Ashton, Denise M Murphy","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.32","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.32","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"300-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41075787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exercise Paton: a simulation exercise to test New South Wales Emergency Departments' response to pandemic influenza.","authors":"Adam T Craig, Paul K Armstrong","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.34","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.34","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"310-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41008136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graeme R Nimmo, Julie C Pearson, Peter J Collignon, Keryn J Christiansen, Geoffrey W Coombs, Jan M Bell, Mary-Louise McLaws
{"title":"Prevalence of MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital inpatients, 2005: report from the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance.","authors":"Graeme R Nimmo, Julie C Pearson, Peter J Collignon, Keryn J Christiansen, Geoffrey W Coombs, Jan M Bell, Mary-Louise McLaws","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.29","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.29","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance conducted a survey of the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in unique clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from patients admitted to hospital for more than 48 hours. Thirty-two laboratories from all states and territories collected 2,908 isolates from 1 May 2005, of which 31.9% were methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The regional prevalence of MRSA varied significantly (P < 0.0001) from 22.5% in Western Australia to 43.4% in New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory. Prevalence of MRSA from individual laboratories varied even more from 4% to 58%. This variation was explained in part by distribution of age with the risk of MRSA significantly (P < 0.0001) increasing with age. Other unmeasured factors including hospital activity and infection control practices in the individual institution may have also contributed. Further investigation is warranted as reductions in prevalence would reduce morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"288-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41075781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2007.","authors":"","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.35","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.35","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"314-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41008137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Glenda L Lawrence, Padmasiri E Aratchige, Ian Boyd, Peter B McIntyre, Michael S Gold
{"title":"Annual report on surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2006.","authors":"Glenda L Lawrence, Padmasiri E Aratchige, Ian Boyd, Peter B McIntyre, Michael S Gold","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.27","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report summarises Australian passive surveillance data for adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) reported to the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee for 2006, and describes reporting trends over the seven-year period 2000 to 2006. There were 779 AEFI records for vaccines administered in 2006. This is an annual AEFI reporting rate of 3.8 per 100,000 population, the lowest since 2002 and a 10% decrease compared with 2005 (869 AEFI records; 4.3 records per 100,000 population). Dose-based AEFI reporting rates in 2006 were 1.9 per 100,000 doses of influenza vaccine for adults aged > or = 18 years, 19.1 per 100,000 doses of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine for those aged > or = 65 years and 12.5 per 100,000 doses of scheduled vaccines for children aged < 7 years. Trend data showed transient increases in reporting of AEFI following the introduction of DTPa-IPV combination vaccines in November 2005 for children aged < 7 years. The majority of the 779 AEFI records for 2006 described non-serious events while 11% (n = 85) described AEFIs defined as serious. There was one report of death temporally associated with receipt of dTpa-IPV and typhoid vaccines in an adult with a history of a chronic medical condition. The most frequently reported individual AEFI was injection site reaction in children following a fourth or fifth dose of acellular pertussis-containing vaccine (70 reports per 100,000 doses). The data confirm the low rate of AEFI reported in Australia and demonstrate the ability of the system to detect and investigate signals such as those associated with changes in immunisation programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"269-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41075776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patrick Cashman, Peter Massey, David Durrheim, Fakhrul Islam, Tony Merritt, Keith Eastwood
{"title":"Pneumonia cluster in a boarding school--implications for influenza control.","authors":"Patrick Cashman, Peter Massey, David Durrheim, Fakhrul Islam, Tony Merritt, Keith Eastwood","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.30","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.30","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common cause of community acquired pneumonia (CAP). Influenza infection increases susceptibility to S. pneumoniae infection in adults but this link is less well described in children. We report on an outbreak of CAP affecting 25 previously well adolescents in a New South Wales boarding school. S. pneumoniae 1 was confirmed in two cases. During this period, the school also experienced an influenza outbreak with an influenza-like illness attack rate peaking at 27% in Year 8 students. A planned school closure may have contributed to controlling the outbreak. Boarding schools are vulnerable to outbreaks of respiratory illness and strategies for limiting this risk are required.</p>","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"296-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41075783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Importation of wild poliovirus into Australia, July 2007.","authors":"Bruce Thorley, Heath Kelly, Jason Roberts","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.31","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41075785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annual report of the Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme, 2006.","authors":"","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.14","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.14","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2006 there were 271 laboratory-confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease analysed by the National Neisseria Network, a nationwide network of reference laboratories. The phenotypes (serogroup, serotype and serosubtype) and antibiotic susceptibility of 166 isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from invasive cases of meningococcal disease were determined and an additional 105 cases were confirmed by non-culture-based methods. Nationally, 217 (80%) confirmed cases were infected with serogroup B and 26 (9.6%) with serogroup C meningococci. The total number of confirmed cases was 74 (21%) fewer than the 345 cases identified in 2005. Numbers of cases decreased in all jurisdictions except Queensland. The age group showing the greatest decrease in numbers (by about one-third) was in those aged 25 years or more. A typical primary disease peak was observed in those aged 4 years or less with a lower secondary peak in adolescents and young adults. Serogroup B cases were 93% of all cases in those aged 4 years or less and 77% in those aged 15-24 years. The proportion of invasive disease represented by serogroup C disease was highest in the 20-24 years and 25-44 years age groups. The common phenotypes circulating in Australia were B:15:P1.7, B:4:P1.4, C:2a:P1.4 and C:2a:P1.5, but again with significant jurisdictional differences. No evidence of meningococcal capsular 'switching' was detected. About two thirds of all isolates showed decreased susceptibility to the penicillin group of antibiotics (MIC 0.06-0.5 mg/L). All isolates remained susceptible to rifampicin and ciprofloxacin.</p>","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"185-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26912435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compliance with three simultaneous vaccinations due at the one visit at 12 months of age in Australia.","authors":"Brynley P Hull, Peter B McIntyre","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.16","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.16","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The introduction of meningococcal C conjugate vaccine (Men C) into the National Immunisation Program Schedule in January 2003 was the first time that 3 simultaneous vaccine injections were recommended for all Australian children. This study aimed to assess the level of simultaneous vaccination at 12 months of age for 4 cohorts of Australian children. The percentage of children with all 3 vaccinations given simultaneously by jurisdiction increased for all states and territories across the 4 study cohorts, however some jurisdictions fared better than others. The percentage of children with all 3 vaccinations given simultaneously varied by the provider type of the Men C vaccine, being lower for general practitioner providers than other providers. Men C vaccine was the vaccine most commonly delayed. The percentage of children who received all 3 vaccinations simultaneously in Australia also varied by indigenous status, with Indigenous children more likely to receive immunisations simultaneously. The study suggests that some children in Australia are at risk of receiving Men C vaccine late, especially children in jurisdictions where general practitioners give the majority of vaccinations.</p>","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"198-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26912437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meningococcal septicaemia and a case of clinically mild illness.","authors":"Danielle M Esler, Peter R Lewis","doi":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.22","DOIUrl":"10.33321/cdi.2007.31.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350023,"journal":{"name":"Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report","volume":" ","pages":"232-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26909216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}