Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2025 – Volume 49 – Home page

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Page last updated: 19 February 2025

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Original articles

Rare urban-acquired human leptospirosis and environmental health investigation in Sydney, Australia

Mark J Ferson, Sinead Flanigan, Mark E Westman, Ana M Pastrana Velez, Benjamin Knobel, Toni Cains, Marianne Martinello || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.011 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text: (PDF 275 KB) (Word 117 KB)

Emergence of locally acquired Japanese encephalitis virus in Australia, January 2021–June 2022: a national case series

Amanda Reyes Veliz, Stacey Kane, Anna Glynn-Robinson || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.005 || Published online: 22/01/2025 Full Text: (PDF 617 KB) (Word 729 KB)

The detection of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in the Murray region, New South Wales: a public health investigation

Gamuchirai Shava, Katherine Todd, Tracey Oakman, Linda Hueston, Keira Glasgow, April Roberts-Witteveen || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.004 || Published online: 22/01/2025 Full Text (PDF 356 KB) (Word 179 KB)

Outbreak reports

An outbreak of Salmonella Muenchen gastroenteritis after consuming wild hunted kangaroo, Northern Territory, Australia, 2024

Anthony DK Draper, Joanne Gerrell, Stacey McKay, Janet Forrester, Ana Ordonez, Ella Meumann, Rob Baird, Dimitrious Menouhos, Manoj Basnet, Tinus Creeper, Max Cummins, Vicki Krause || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.010 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text:(PDF 270 KB) (Word 129 KB)

Case reports

A delayed diagnosis of lymphatic filariasis in a returned traveller from the Philippines

George P Drewett, Hedayat Pourhadi, Jordan Kahn, Shio Yen Tio, Craig Aboltins || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.014 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text: (PDF 377 KB) (Word 1.06 MB)

Multi-year report

Australian Trachoma Surveillance Report update: 2014–2022

Alison Jaworski, Carleigh Cowling, Gordana C Popovic, Absar Noorul, Sergio Sandler, Susana Vaz Nery, John Kaldor || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.006 || Published online: 22/01/2025 Full Text: (PDF 513 KB) (Word 400 KB)

Annual reports

Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory annual report, 2023

Matthew B Kaye, Linda K Hobday, Aishah Ibrahim, Leesa Bruggink, Bruce R Thorley || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.013 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text: (PDF 366 KB) (Word 171 KB)

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2023

Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan J van Hal and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network, Australia || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.007 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text: (PDF 410 KB) (Word 183 KB)

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Australian Gram-negative Surveillance Outcome Program (GnSOP) Bloodstream Infection Annual Report 2023

Jan M Bell, Alicia Fajardo Lubian, Sally R Partridge, Thomas Gottlieb, Jennifer Robson, Jonathan R Iredell, Denise A Daley, Geoffrey W Coombs || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.003 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text: (PDF 339 KB) (Word 131 KB)

Quarterly reports

Meningococcal Surveillance Australia: Reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2024

Monica M Lahra and Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.017 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text: (PDF 201 KB) (Word 108 KB)

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Program, 1 April to 30 June 2024

Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal, Sonya Natasha Hutabarat, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.002 || Published online: 22/01/2025 Full Text: (PDF 221 KB) (Word 111 KB)

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Program, 1 January to 31 March 2024

Monica M Lahra, Sebastiaan Van Hal, Sonya Natasha Hutabarat, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.001 || Published online: 22/01/2025 Full Text: (PDF 222 KB) (Word 111 KB)

Policy and guidelines

Tuberculosis workforce policy and development framework in Australia

Ellen J Donnan on behalf of the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.009 || Published online: 19/02/2025 Full Text: (PDF 302 KB) (Word 124 KB)

Errata

Erratum: Meningococcal Surveillance Australia, Reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2024 – Erratum to Commun Dis Intell (2018) 2024;48 (https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.54)

Monica M Lahra, Sonya Natasha Hutabarat, Tiffany R Hogan for the National Neisseria Network || https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2025.49.008 || Published online: 22/01/2025 Full Text: (PDF 187 KB) (Word 106 KB)

Editorial team

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Editor: Christina Bareja
Deputy Editor: Simon Petrie
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ISSN

ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)


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