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)
Letters to the Editor
Public health response to a norovirus viral gastroenteritis outbreak in early childhood learning centres in Victoria, Australia, 2021
George P Drewett, Anna-Lena Arnold, Leesa Bruggink, Sarah Borg, Kaye Sturge, Bruce Bolam || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.64 || Published online: 26/09/2022Full Text: (Word 5.84 MB) (PDF 714.1 KB)
First case of NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolated in Timor-Leste
Nevio Sarmento, Tessa Oakley, Joana C Belo, Virginia L da Conceição, Carolina da C Maia, Celia G Santos, Elfiana Amaral, Lucia Toto, Endang S da Silva, Ian Marr, Jennifer Yan, Joshua R Francis || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.65 || Published online: 26/09/2022Full Text: (Word 5.33 MB) (PDF 332.03 KB)
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
Hepatitis B prevalence in women giving birth in the Northern Territory, Australia, 2005–2015
Amalie Dyda, Skye McGregor, Paula Binks, Jane Davies, Steven YC Tong, Vicki Krause, Peter Markey, Shu Li Qin Li, Joshua S Davis, John M Kaldor, Bette Liu || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.62 || Published online: 26/09/2022Full Text: (Word 5.34 MB) (PDF 404.91 KB)
Outbreaks of Human Metapneumovirus in Western Sydney Aged-Care Facilities in 2018
Christian G Jones, Elizabeth Escarate, Elizabeth Clarke, Penelope Clark, Sophie Norton, Shopna Bag, Jen Kok, Dominic Dwyer, Richard I Lindley, Robert Booy || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.54 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 228.49 KB) (PDF 432.13 KB)
Using artificial intelligence for personal protective equipment guidance for healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Veronica A Preda, Anand Jayapadman, Alexandra Zacharakis, Farah Magrabi, Terry Carney, Peter Petocz, Michael Wilson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.51 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 313.27 KB) (PDF 624.05 KB)
How do general practitioners test and treat gonococcal infections in the Australian Capital Territory? Implications for disease surveillance and control
Lorane Gaborit, Ben Polkinghorne, Alexandra Marmor || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.45 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 6.33 MB) (PDF 672.52 KB)
Pens down: An outbreak of the B.1.617.2 SARS-CoV-2 variant in an Australian high school, August 2021
Keeley Allen, Alexandra Marmor, Davoud Pourmarzi || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.44 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 5.68 MB) (PDF 1.1 MB)
Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: diphtheria 1999–2019
Noni E Winkler, Aditi Dey, Helen E Quinn, Davoud Pourmarzi, Stephen Lambert, Peter McIntyre, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.42 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 5.53 MB) (PDF 609.61 KB)
Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: measles, 2012–2019
Noni E Winkler, Aditi Dey, Helen E Quinn, Davoud Pourmarzi, Stephen Lambert, Peter McIntyre, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.38 || Published online: 23/6/2022Full Text: (Word 1.46 MB) (PDF 1.46 MB)
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of legionellosis in Northern Australia, 2010–2021
Claire Waller, Kevin Freeman, Shereen Labib, Rob Baird || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.34 || Published online: 23/6/2022Full Text: (Word 249.03 KB) (PDF 533.72 KB)
Public health response following an iGAS outbreak in a residential aged care facility in Queensland
Jai C Van Zeeland, Heshani Rupasinghe, Megan K Young || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.35 || Published online: 23/6/2022Full 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
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 Hassan 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 reports
Changes in norovirus incidence in Victoria, Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–2021
Leesa D Bruggink || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.61 || Published online: 26/09/2022Full Text: (Word 471.23 KB) (PDF 418.4 KB)
Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant on a single liquified natural gas (LNG) vessel, with estimates of vaccine effectiveness
Nicolas Smoll, Jacina Walker, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, Jill Auriac, Ross Andrews, Andrew Jeremijenko, Michael Kirk, Gulam Khandaker || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.40 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 294.75 KB) (PDF 515.99 KB)
Vaccine breakthrough infections in a highly-vaccinated Australian population during a SARS-CoV-2 Delta outbreak
Meru Sheel, Tze Vun Voo, Nevada Pingault, Timothy S Sloan-Gardner, Alexandra Marmor, Martyn D Kirk, Vanessa Johnston, Kerryn Coleman || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.32 || Published online: 23/6/2022Full 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
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 January to 31 March 2022
Monica M Lahra, Sanghamitra Ray and Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.56 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 5.35 MB) (PDF 283.24 KB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 October to 31 December 2021
Monica M Lahra, Masoud Shoushtari, Tiffany R Hogan || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.43 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 5.31 MB) (PDF 319.2 KB)
Meningococcal Surveillance Australia Reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2022
Monica M Lahra, Sanghamitra Ray and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.36 || Published online: 23/6/2022Full Text: (Word 72.9 KB) (PDF 277.79 KB)
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 reports
Report on influenza viruses received and tested by the Melbourne WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza during 2020–2021
Genevieve O’Neill, Ammar Aziz, Miku Kuba, Sook Kwan Brown, Hilda Lau, Sally Soppe, Mariana Baz, Heidi Peck, Yi-Mo Deng, Kanta Subbarao, Ian G Barr || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.63 || Published online: 26/09/2022Full Text: (Word 7.43 MB) (PDF 1.29 MB)
Annual immunisation coverage report 2020
Brynley Hull, Alexandra Hendry, Aditi Dey, Julia Brotherton, Kristine Macartney, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.60 || Published online: 26/09/2022Full Text: (Word 5.03 MB) (PDF 11.81 MB)
Monitoring the incidence and causes of disease potentially transmitted by food in Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2017
The OzFoodNet Working Group || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.59 || Published online: 26/09/2022Full Text: (Word 9.79 MB) (PDF 1.7 MB)
Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2021
Monica M Lahra, Tiffany R Hogan, Benjamin H Armstrong, for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.52 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 5.47 MB) (PDF 734.99 KB)
Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2021
Matthew B Kaye, Arnau Garcia-Clapes, Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim, Presa Chanthalavanh, Leesa Bruggink, Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.55 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 222.1 KB) (PDF 585.06 KB)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to 31 December 2021
Christiane Stehmann, Matteo Senesi, Shannon Sarros, Amelia McGlade, Victoria Lewis, Marion Simpson, Genevieve Klug, Catriona McLean, Colin L Masters, Steven Collins || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.53 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 896.01 KB) (PDF 637.47 KB)
Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2021
Monica M Lahra, CR Robert George and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.46 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 6.11 MB) (PDF 621.03 KB)
Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia annual report, 2020
Aditi Dey, Han Wang, Helen Quinn, Alexis Pillsbury, Megan Hickie, Lucy Deng, Nicholas Wood, Frank Beard, Kristine Macartney || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.47 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 6.62 MB) (PDF 912.59 KB)
FluTracking: Weekly online community based surveillance of influenza-like illness in Australia, 2018 Annual Report
Zachary L Howard, Sandra J Carlson, Sarah Moberley, Michelle Butler, Craig B Dalton || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.41 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 6.64 MB) (PDF 794.82 KB)
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)
Multi-year reports
Summary of National Surveillance Data on Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Australia, 2016-2018 Final Report
Cyra Patel, Aditi Dey, Han Wang, Peter McIntyre, Kristine Macartney, Frank Beard || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.28 || Published online: 23/6/2022Full Text: (Word 4.27 MB) (PDF 2.23 MB)
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)
Policy and guidelines
The Strategic Plan for Control of Tuberculosis in Australia, 2021–2025
The National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee for the Communicable Diseases Network Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.48 || Published online: 21/7/2022Full Text: (Word 5.72 MB) (PDF 523.39 KB)
Erratum
Utilisation of antimicrobials used to treat bacterial pneumonia in principal referral hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia, 2020
Erratum to Commun Dis Intell (2018) 2022;46 (https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.6)
Erin Connor, Kavita Rasiah, Nadine Hillock || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.50 || Published online: 18/8/2022Full Text: (Word 5.46 MB) (PDF 261.9 KB)
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 and Aged Care or the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Data may be subject to revision.