Commonwealth of Australia July to December 2015

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to December 2015.

Nation-wide surveillance of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases), the most common being Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is performed by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, based at the University of Melbourne. Prospective surveillance has been undertaken since 1993 and over this dynamic period in transmissible spongiform encephalopath...

Cover vol. 12, no. 6, December 2015

List of Reviewers January 2015 to December 2015.

A Hamid, MS., Malaysia Aadland, E., Norway Abad, C., Brazil Abe, T., Japan Abraham, P., France Acuna-Castroviejo, D., United States Agresta, C., United States Aguado, X., Spain Aguer, C., Canada Aguiar, A., Brazil Ahmetov, I., Russian Federation Akimoto, T., Japan Aldred, S., UK Alegre, L., Spain Alexander, C., UK Ali, A., New Zealand Allerton, D., UK Allgrove, J., UK Almar, M., Spain Almeida, ...

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance Australia, 1 July to 30 September 2015.

Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae and results in illnesses such as pneumonia, bacteraemia and meningitis. There are currently more than 90 serotypes recognised worldwide, approximately half of which are found in Australia where IPD has been a nationally notifiable disease since 2001. The Communicable Diseases Network Australia established th...

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