Communicable Diseases Intelligence
Quarterly report Volume 30 Issue no 4 2006
Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly report
Volume 30 Issue no 4 2006
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Front cover: Surveillance Section, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Images sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Clockwise from top left: Various forms that the developing malarial parasite undergoes prior to its schizont stage, Stephen Glenn, CDC; Female Aedes aegypti mosquito, James Gathany; Administration of hepatitis B vaccine, Jim Gathany; photomicrograph depicts HeLa cells infected with Type-A Chlamydia trachomatis, Joe Miller, CDC. Printed by Union Offset, Canberra
Contents Annual reports Communicable Diseases Network Australia National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee annual report, 2005–06
411
Conan Liu, Cheryl Johansen, Nina Kurucz, Peter Whelan
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the WHO Western Pacific Region, 2005
430
The WHO Western Pacific Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme
National Rotavirus Surveillance Program annual report, 2005–06
434
Carl D Kirkwood, David Cannan, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran, Ruth F Bishop, Graeme L Barnes and the National Rotavirus Surveillance Group
Supplementary report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged
