Australia's notifiable diseases status, 1999: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

This article published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001 contains the 1999 annual report of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. This annual report is available as 32 HTML documents and is also available in PDF format.

Page last updated: 17 December 2001

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Appendix 1 - Case Definitions



The following table displays the case definitions for vectorborne diseases notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System in 1999. If you are not able to access these data please e-mail cdi.editor@health.gov.au

Appendix 1e. Case definitions and ICD-10 code for notifiable diseases reported to NNDSS in 1999, vectorborne diseases

Disease
Case definition (NHMRC 1994)
ICD-10 code(s)
Arbovirus infection (NEC) Demonstration of a four-fold or greater change in serum antibody titres between acute and convalescent-phase serum specimens obtained at least 2 weeks apart and preferably conducted in parallel at the same laboratory

OR demonstration of specific IgM antibodies in CSF or acute phase serum

OR isolation of virus from blood, CSF or tissue specimens

A92, A93, A94
Barmah Forest virus infection Demonstration of above criteria for Barmah Forest virus A92.8
Ross River virus infection Demonstration of criteria for Arbovirus infection for Ross River virus B33.1
Dengue Demonstration of above criteria for dengue virus (all types) A90
Malaria Demonstration of malaria parasites (Plasmodium species) in a blood film B50, B51, B52, B53


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001.

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