| epidemiology of rotavirus strains infecting children throughout australia during 1986-1987. a study of serotype and rna electropherotype. | the epidemiology of human rotaviruses throughout australia was studied by examining 344 rotavirus positive faecal specimens using an enzyme immunoassay incorporating serotype specific monoclonal antibodies. specimens were collected from children less than 5 years old admitted to urban hospitals for treatment of acute diarrhoea during the winter months of 1986 and/or 1987 in queensland, new south wales, victoria, tasmania, south australia, and western australia. the infecting rotavirus serotype w ... | 1989 | 2548458 |
| human cryptosporidiosis in north queensland. | during a 12-month period, feces from 780 persons from the townsville region were evaluated by the kinyoun acid-fast strain, and 36 (4.6%) immunocompetent patients were found to have cryptosporidium oocysts. twenty-five index cases were identified; 13 (8.6%) cases from 151 patients were from palm island, an isolated aboriginal community in the wet tropics and 12 (1.9%) cases from 629 patients were from the dry tropics of townsville. all 11 secondary cases were associated with a person-to-person o ... | 1988 | 3264149 |
| the spectrum of aeromonas-associated diarrhea in tropical queensland, australia. | during a twelve-month period (1 july 91-30 june 92), feces from 912 persons from the townsville region in the dry tropics of queensland, australia were evaluated by culture and 45 (4.9%) immunocompetent patients were found to be carrying aeromonas in their stools. all patients were index cases and no secondary cases from household or close contact of index cases were identified. eight patients (9.3%) were from palm island, an aboriginal community, and 37 (4.5%) were from the essentially caucasia ... | 1993 | 8266241 |
| genetic homogeneity of human serotype g1 rotaviruses isolated during a single epidemic season: implications for vaccine strategies. | the extent of genetic variation of rotavirus isolates representing the common serotype g1 circulating in australian urban centres during 1996 was investigated. the sequences of the major outer capsid glycoprotein, vp7, of three isolates from brisbane, sydney and melbourne were determined and found to be highly conserved (> 99% nucleotide identity, > 98.3% amino acid identity and > 99% amino acid similarity). in particular, the sequences of the neutralisation epitope regions were absolutely conse ... | 1999 | 10672345 |
| 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 |
| intussusception in the northern territory: the incidence is low in aboriginal and torres strait islander children. | to describe the epidemiology, immunisation status and management of children with intussusception in the northern territory (nt), 1993-2003. | 2006 | 16712550 |
| climatic factors associated with hospitalizations for rotavirus diarrhoea in children under 5 years of age. | this study compares the seasonality of rotavirus diarrhoeal hospital admissions and its relationship to climatic factors across three australian cities. weekly admission of rotavirus diarrhoea (1993-2003) in children aged <5 years and weekly average temperature and relative humidity for each city were modelled using a log-linear model with a cubic trend and season. interactions were included to test for differences in the effect of temperature and humidity between seasons and between cities. adm ... | 2008 | 17352836 |
| early evidence for direct and indirect effects of the infant rotavirus vaccine program in queensland. | to assess the impact of introducing a publicly funded infant rotavirus vaccination program on disease notifications and on laboratory testing and results. | 2009 | 19645646 |
| fifty years of australian pediatric gastroenterology. | when the gastroenterological society of australia (gesa) began 50 years ago there were very few pediatric gastroenterologists in the world. the 'mother' of paediatric gastroenterology was australian charlotte ('charlo') anderson who established one of the world's first pediatric gastroenterology units in melbourne in the early 1960s. her earlier work in birmingham had identified gluten as the component of wheat responsible for celiac disease and helped separate maldigestion (cystic fibrosis) and ... | 2009 | 19799703 |
| rotavirus epidemiology in queensland during the pre-vaccine era. | rotavirus, the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in early childhood, is now a vaccine preventable disease with immunisation added to the australian publicly funded schedule in july 2007. to better understand rotavirus epidemiology in queensland prior to vaccine introduction, we used 3 routinely-collected data sources. we analysed hospital records of all children less than 5 years of age admitted to queensland hospitals between july 2001 and june 2006 with any rotavirus-specific code or ... | 2009 | 19877539 |
| pentavalent rotavirus vaccine and prevention of gastroenteritis hospitalizations in australia. | a publicly funded, universal infant pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (rv5) program was implemented in queensland, australia, in mid-2007. we sought to assess vaccine effectiveness (ve) of 3 doses of rv5 at preventing rotavirus and nonrotavirus acute gastroenteritis (age) hospitalizations in the first birth cohort and impact on hospitalizations in all age groups. | 2010 | 20732946 |
| reduction in rotavirus-associated acute gastroenteritis following introduction of rotavirus vaccine into australia's national childhood vaccine schedule. | : rotavirus vaccines were introduced into the funded australian national immunization program (nip) in july 2007. due to purchasing arrangements, individual states and territories chose either a 2-dose rv1 (rotarix, gsk) regimen or 3-dose rv5 (rotateq, merck/csl) regimen. this allowed comparison of both vaccines in similar populations with high infant vaccination coverage. | 2011 | 21183837 |