Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiology reports, Australia, 2020–2022
For coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiological reports, covering COVID-19 incidence within Australia, please refer to this page.
Editorial
Announcement of a change in CDI’s editorship
CDI Editorial Team || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.31 || Published online: 19/5/2022Full Text: (Word 72.03 KB) (PDF 192.07 KB)
Letter to the Editor
HIV risk and gonococcal genotype: Opportunities to improve passive surveillance for prompt identification of syndemics?
Sara FE Bell, Stephen B Lambert, Amy V Jennison, Christine JD Guglielmino, Robert S Ware, David M Whiley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.22 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 223.75 KB) (PDF 409.65 KB)
Original articles
How accurately does the Australian Immunisation Register identify children overdue for vaccine doses? A national cross-sectional study
Lauren G Dalton, Kelley N Meder, Frank H Beard, Aditi Dey, Brynley P Hull, Kristine K Macartney, Peter B McIntyre || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.10 || Published online: 19/5/2022Full 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
Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Michelle Kaus, Lee Jones, Gary Boddy, Sheree Rablin, Jack Roberts, Daniel Arnold, Sarah Parfitt, Renee Johnston, Kerry K Hall, Sallyanne Le Gros-Wilson, Kaley Butten, Maree Toombs, Stephen B Lambert || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.15 || Published online: 19/5/2022Full 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
Emma L Sweeney, Kym Lowry, Mandy Seel, Frashta Rahimi, Julian Langton-Lockton, Cheryl Bletchly, Graeme R Nimmo and David M Whiley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.26 || Published online: 19/5/2022Full 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
Gwenda Chapman, Mahmudul Al Imam, Arifuzzaman Khan, Nicolas Smoll, Odewumi Adegbija, Michael Kirk, Gulam Khandaker, Kerrie Wiley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.30 || Published online: 19/5/2022Full Text: (Word 679.06 KB) (PDF 971.98 KB)
Household transmission of COVID-19 in 2020 in New South Wales, Australia
Anna A Sordo, Andrew Dunn, Evangeline RK Gardiner, Tracie A Reinten, Tracy SF Tsang, Lucy Deng, Bette C Liu || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.16 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 620.08 KB) (PDF 882.26 KB)
An outbreak of leptospirosis associated with cattle workers during the wet season, in the Northern Territory of Australia, 2021
Damien R Brown, Ruwani Peiris, Claire Waller, Elizabeth M Stedman, Susanne E Fitzpatrick, Vicki L Krause, Anthony DK Draper || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.23 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 677.28 KB) (PDF 1.01 MB)
Time taken by individuals with respiratory symptoms to present to primary care: a descriptive study of assessments at Australian General Practitioner-led respiratory clinics
Victoria E Mansell, Theophilus I Emeto, Stephanie Davis || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.20 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 190.52 KB) (PDF 494.02 KB)
Nocardiosis in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven region from 2010 to 2019
Darcy Gray, Simeon Crawford, Peter Newton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.7 || Published online: 16/02/2022Full Text: (Word 1.31 MB) (PDF 1020.26 KB)
Utilisation of antimicrobials used to treat bacterial pneumonia in principal referral hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia, 2020
Erin Connor, Kavita Rasiah, Nadine Hillock || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.6 || Published online: 16/02/2022Full Text: (Word 987.49 KB) (PDF 841.07 KB)
The 2018 annual cost burden for children under five years of age hospitalised with respiratory syncytial virus in Australia
Natasha K Brusco, Annette Alafaci, Jane Tuckerman, Helena Frawley, Jeremy Pratt, Andrew J Daley, Angela K Todd, Yi-Mo Deng, Kanta Subbarao, Ian Barr, Nigel W Crawford || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.5 || Published online: 16/02/2022Full Text: (Word 191.71 KB) (PDF 668.81 KB)
Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: Pertussis, 2013–2018
Kushani S Marshall, Helen E Quinn, Alexis J Pillsbury, Julia E Maguire, Robyn M Lucas, Aditi Dey, Frank H Beard, Kristine K Macartney, Peter B McIntyre || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.3 || Published online: 27/1/2022Full Text: (Word 2.9 MB) (PDF 2.64 MB)
Salmonellosis in Australia in 2020: possible impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures
Barbara P F Davis, Janaki Amin, Neil Franklin, Paul J Beggs || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.2 || Published online: 27/1/2022Full Text: (Word 691.45 KB) (PDF 677.55 KB)
Short report
Effect of COVID-19 restrictions and border closures on vaccine preventable diseases in Victoria, Australia, 2020–2021
Paraag Bhatt, Janet Strachan, Marion Easton, Lucinda Franklin, George Drewett || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.29 || Published online: 19/5/2022Full Text: (Word 527.54 KB) (PDF 1.09 MB)
Queensland typhoid cluster linked to twelve-year carriage of Salmonella Typhi
Marguerite Dalmau, Shuo Meng Song, Megan Young, Stephen Lambert, Rikki Graham, Gino Micalizzi, Emma Field, Robert Bell, Amy V Jennison, Russell Stafford || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.27 || Published online: 19/5/2022Full Text: (Word 133.87 KB) (PDF 387.58 KB)
Defining the peak: Point prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 using randomised sampling
Andre L Wattiaux, Fiona May, Terresa Allen, Tracy Bladen, Brielle Pery, Lisa McHugh, Vicki Slinko, Alice Sykes, Lashan De Silva, Jay Bajra, Ross Andrews, Gulam Khandaker || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.24 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 75.43 KB) (PDF 298.3 K)
Emergence of non-choleragenic Vibrio infections in Australia
Michelle Harlock, Stewart Quinn, Alison R Turnbull || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.8 || Published online: 16/02/2022Full Text: (Word 200.95 KB) (PDF 439.84 KB)
Quarterly reports
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2021
Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.19 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 73.83 KB) (PDF 307.58 KB)
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2021
Monica M. Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.21 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 72.32 KB) (PDF 271.13 KB)
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2021
Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, Tiffany R Hogan, for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.1 || Published online: 27/1/2022Full Text: (Word 82.42 KB) (PDF 248.31 KB)
Annual report
Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme (AESOP) Annual Report 2020
Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Nicholas W T Yee, Princy Shoby, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.17 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 95.58 KB) (PDF 509.46 KB)
Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme (ASSOP) Annual Report 2020
Geoffrey W Coombs, Denise A Daley, Nicholas W T Yee, Princy Shoby, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, on behalf of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.18 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 116.4 KB) (PDF 698.06 KB)
Influenza epidemiology in patients admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2019: the Influenza Complications Alert Network FluCAN
Allen C Cheng, Dominic E Dwyer, Mark Holmes, Louis B Irving, Graham Simpson, Sanjaya Senanayake, Tony Korman, N Deborah Friedman, Louise Cooley, Peter Wark, Anna Holwell, Simon Bowler, John W Upham, Daniel M Fatovich, Grant W Waterer, Kristine Macartney, Christopher C Blyth, Nigel Crawford, Jim Buttery, Helen S Marshall, Julia E Clark, Joshua Francis, Tom Kotsimbos, Paul M Kelly || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.14 || Published online: 26/4/2022Full Text: (Word 430.74 KB) (PDF 813.8 KB)
Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Gram-negative Sepsis Outcome Programme (GnSOP) Annual Report 2020
Jan M Bell, Alicia Fajardo Lubian, Sally R Partridge, Thomas Gottlieb, Jonathan Iredell, Denise A Daley, Geoffrey W Coombs || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.11 || Published online: 28/03/2022Full Text: (Word 100 KB) (PDF 521.94 KB)
Surveillance for severe influenza and COVID-19 in patients admitted to sentinel Australian hospitals in 2020: the Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN)
Husna Begum, Dominic E Dwyer, Mark Holmes, Louis B Irving, Graham Simpson, Sanjaya Senanayake, Tony Korman, N Deborah Friedman, Louise Cooley, Peter Wark, Simon Bowler, Jen Kok, John W Upham, Daniel M Fatovich, Grant W Waterer, Kristine Macartney, Christopher C Blyth, Nigel Crawford, Jim Buttery, Helen S Marshall, Julia E Clark, Joshua R Francis, Tom Kotsimbos, Paul M Kelly, Allen C Cheng || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.13 || Published online: 28/03/2022Full Text: (Word 890.74 KB) (PDF 707.28 KB)
Extended report
Report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2011 to 2018
Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance Section || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.12 || Published online: 28/03/2022Full Text: (Word 4.09 MB) (PDF 1.11 MB)
Editorial team
The editorial team consists of the editor, deputy editor, and a designer. The editorial team is supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB).
Editor: Jennie Hood and Noel Lally
Deputy Editor: Simon Petrie
Design and Production: Kasra Yousefi
Editorial advisory board
The role of the CDI Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) is to:
- provide expert advice to the CDI editorial team; advocate for CDI in the broader community;
- serve as a critical sounding board for the editorial team on editorial ideas and themes;
- provide ideas for features and news and thoughts on current trends; and provide constructive feedback on published issues.
David Durrheim
Mark Ferson
John Kaldor
Martyn Kirk
Linda Selvey
Correspondence
Correspondence should be sent to: cdi.editor@health.gov.au
ISSN
ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)
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.