| arbovirus infections of humans in high-risk areas of south-eastern australia: a continuing study. | to determine the current immune status of high-risk populations of new south wales and victoria to the arboviral pathogens, murray valley encephalitis (mve) and kunjin (kun) viruses, which are associated with australian encephalitis (ae), and ross river (rr) and kokobera (kok) viruses which are associated with polyarthritis. further, to estimate seroconversion rates to these viruses in high-risk populations over the 10-year period 1981-1991. | 1993 | 8393128 |
| australia's notifiable diseases status, 2001: annual report of the national notifiable diseases surveillance system. | in 2001 there were 104,187 notifications of communicable diseases in australia reported to the national notifiable diseases surveillance system (nndss). the number of notifications in 2001 was an increase of 16 per cent of those reported in 2000 (89,740) and the largest annual total since the nndss commenced in 1991. in 2001, nine new diseases were added to the list of diseases reported to nndss and four diseases were removed. the new diseases were cryptosporidiosis, laboratory-confirmed influen ... | 2003 | 12725505 |
| production of pro-inflammatory cytokines correlates with the symptoms of acute sickness behaviour in humans. | elaboration of the concept of cytokine-induced sickness behaviour in recent years has opened new avenues for understanding brain involvement in sickness and recovery processes. additionally, this has led to much speculation about the role of the immune system in neuropsychiatric syndromes, including depression and chronic fatigue. however, few studies have examined this phenomenon as it naturally occurs in sick humans, and none has attempted to document the quantitative relationships between cyt ... | 2004 | 15697055 |