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Annual report of National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee 2010-11

Commun Dis Intell 2013;37(1):E1-E20

Change in authorship

The corrected authorship is as follows:

Katrina Knope, Peter Whelan, David Smith, Cheryl Johansen, Rod Moran, Stephen Doggett, Angus Sly, Michaela Hobby, Nina Kurucz, Phil Wright, Jay Nicholson and the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee

And the corrected author details are:

Katrina Knope1
Peter Whelan2
David Smith3
Cheryl Johansen4
Rod Moran5
Stephen Doggett6
Angus Sly7
Michaela Hobby8
Phil Wright1
Jay Nicholson4
The National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee (see acknowledgement)

  1. Zoonoses, Foodborne and Emerging Infectious Diseases Section Health Emergency Management Branch Office of Health Protection Department of Health Canberra ACT
  2. Medical Entomology, Centre for Disease Control Health Protection Division, Northern Territory Department of Health Building 19, Royal Darwin Hospital. Casuarina NT 0811
  3. Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; PathWest QEII Medical Centre. School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia
  4. Arbovirus Surveillance and Research Laboratory School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences University of Western Australia, M502
  5. No affiliation (retired)
  6. New South Wales Arbovirus Surveillance & Mosquito Monitoring Program Department of Medical Entomology Institute for Clinical Pathology and Medical Research Westmead Hospital, Sydney NSW
  7. Operational Science Program (OSP) Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Border Compliance Division 42-44 Qantas Drive, Eagle Farm, Brisbane, QLD 4009
  8. Health Protection, Public Health SA Health Government of South Australia

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Annual immunisation coverage report, 2010

Commun Dis Intell 2013;37(1):E21-E39

Tables 2, 3 and 4

The corrected tables appear below. In the previous version, the data was under incorrect state and territory headings.

Table 2: Percentage of children in 2010 immunised at 12 months of age, by vaccine and state/territory*
Jurisdiction
Vaccine ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Australia
* For the birth cohort born in 2009
Total number of children 4,978 97,303 3,853 61,963 19,563 6,448 71,581 31,105 296,794
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (%) 94.6 92.2 90.9 92.3 92.2 92.3 92.9 90.8 92.3
Poliomyelitis (%) 94.5 92.2 90.9 92.2 92.2 92.3 92.8 90.8 92.2
Haemophilus influenzae type b (%) 94.4 92.0 91.3 92.1 92.0 92.2 92.6 90.6 92.1
Hepatitis B (%) 93.7 91.8 90.7 91.9 91.7 92.1 92.3 90.3 91.8
Rotavirus (%) 88.0 86.4 81.6 83.2 84.6 86.1 83.7 85.6 84.7
7vPCV (%) 93.6 91.5 89.4 91.7 91.5 91.6 92.1 89.8 91.5
Fully immunised (%) 93.6 91.7 90.2 91.7 91.6 92.0 92.1 90.1 91.6
Fully immunised (incl rotavirus & 7vPCV) (%) 86.7 84.1 78.4 86.1 87.3 84.0 86.5 83.0 85.2

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Table 3: Percentage of children in 2010 immunised at 24 months of age, by vaccine and state/territory*
Vaccine Jurisdiction 
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Australia
* For the birth cohort born in 2008
Total number of children 4,923 98,729 3,711 63,062 19,779 6,609 72,248 31,499 300,560
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (%) 96.0 94.6 95.1 94.5 94.5 95.3 95.4 93.4 94.7
Poliomyelitis (%) 95.9 94.6 95.0 94.4 94.5 95.3 95.4 93.3 94.6
Haemophilus influenzae type b (%) 95.6 94.8 94.0 94.2 94.2 95.3 95.1 93.2 94.6
Hepatitis B (%) 95.2 94.1 94.6 93.9 94.0 95.1 94.7 92.5 94.1
Measles, mumps, rubella (%) 94.8 93.8 95.0 93.9 93.8 94.9 94.6 92.5 93.9
Varicella (%) 87.5 82.1 84.9 86.4 81.9 81.7 82.7 79.4 83.0
MenC (%) 94.4 93.4 94.9 93.5 93.7 94.8 94.3 91.9 93.6
Fully immunised (%) 93.3 92.1 92.4 92.2 92.1 93.6 92.9 90.0 92.1
Fully immunised (incl varicella & MenC) (%) 85.6 80.0 82.5 84.8 80.2 80.2 80.9 77.2 81.1

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Table 4: Percentage of children in 2010 immunised at 60 months years of age, by vaccine and state/territory*
Vaccine State or territory  Australia
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Total number of children 4,628 93,742 3,576 60,695 18,699 6,263 68,128 29,601 285,332
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (%) 91.3 89.5 87.5 90.3 87.6 91.9 91.2 86.6 89.7
Poliomyelitis (%) 91.5 89.4 87.4 90.3 87.6 91.9 91.3 86.7 89.7
Measles, mumps, rubella (%) 91.1 89.3 87.1 90.2 87.4 92.0 91.1 86.5 89.6
Fully immunised (%) 90.7 88.9 86.6 89.7 87.0 91.5 90.7 85.9 89.1

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Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 2010

Commun Dis Intell 2012;36(1):E1-E69

Table 6

The corrected part of the table appears below. In the previous version, the numbers in the table for zoonoses were listed against incorrect diseases within the zoonotic disease group.


Table 6 cont’d: Notifications and notification rate for communicable diseases, Australia, 2005 to 2010, (per 100,000 population)
Disease Number of notifications 5 year mean Ratio Notification rate per 100,000 population
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Zoonoses
Anthrax 0 1 1 0 0 1 0.4 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Australian bat lyssavirus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Brucellosis 41 50 37 45 32 21 41.0 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
Leptospirosis 129 145 108 112 146 131 128.0 1.0 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.6
Lyssavirus (NEC) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ornithosis 164 165 93 102 65 56 117.8 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.3
Q fever 352 411 449 376 310 323 379.6 0.9 1.7 2.0 2.1 1.7 1.4 1.4
Tularaemia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0