| 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 |
| 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 |