| 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 |
| spatial-temporal epidemiological analyses of two sympatric, co-endemic alphaviral diseases in queensland, australia. | the two most reported mosquito-borne diseases in queensland, a northern state of australia, are ross river virus (rrv) disease and barmah forest virus (bfv) disease. both diseases are endemic in queensland and have similar clinical symptoms and comparable transmission cycles involving a complex inter-relationship between human hosts, various mosquito vectors, and a range of nonhuman vertebrate hosts, including marsupial mammals that are unique to the australasian region. although these viruses a ... | 2011 | 21466385 |
| 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 |
| ross river virus activity along the south coast of new south wales. | the sera of 468 blood donors and 63 domestic animals, collected from the south coast of new south wales, were tested for the presence of antibodies to ross river virus. antibodies were detected in 7% of human sera, 25% of cow sera and 65% of horse sera. using the blood donors as 'human sentinels', seroconversions were demonstrated in two donors from the nowra-kiama region and from a patient in the same area; none of the three had been outside of the study area during the period of seroconversion ... | 1982 | 6303286 |