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A cluster of murine typhus cases in Western Australia

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

A comparison of data sources for the surveillance of seasonal and pandemic influenza in Victoria

scientific article

A decline in varicella but an uncertain impact on zoster following varicella vaccination in Victoria, Australia

scientific article

A diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine for adults: the wrong booster vaccine for Australia?

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

A no‐fault compensation scheme for serious adverse events attributed to vaccination ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

A pandemic response to a disease of predominantly seasonal intensity.

scientific article

A random cluster survey and a convenience sample give comparable estimates of immunity to vaccine preventable diseases in children of school age in Victoria, Australia

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A serosurvey evaluation of the school-based measles ‘catch-up’ immunisation campaign in Victorian school-aged children

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A small community model for the transmission of infectious diseases: comparison of school closure as an intervention in individual-based models of an influenza pandemic.

scientific article

Adverse events associated with 2010 CSL and other inactivated influenza vaccines ⬇️

scientific article published on September 19, 2011

An evaluation of the Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) surveillance for influenza-like illness.

scientific article

An evaluation of the sensitivity of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance for poliovirus infection in Australia

scientific article

Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory and summary of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, 2001.

scientific article published in January 2002

Annual report of the Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory, 2002

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Anticipated behaviors of emergency prehospital medical care providers during an influenza pandemic.

scientific article

Apparent improvement in surveillance for cases of acute flaccid paralysis in Australia

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Approaching the NHMRC goal for second-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccine uptake

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Are we prepared for Ebola and other viral haemorrhagic fevers?

scientific article published in October 2014

Attitudes to living and working in pandemic conditions among emergency prehospital medical care personnel.

scientific article

Australia's last reported case of wild poliovirus infection

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Border control measures in the influenza pandemic plans of six South Pacific nations: a critical review

scientific article

Case fatality risk of influenza A (H1N1pdm09): a systematic review

scientific article

Case fatality: rate, ratio, or risk?

scientific article

Challenges in regulating influenza vaccines for children ⬇️

scientific article published on April 15, 2013

Chronic Strongyloides stercoralis infection in Laotian immigrants and refugees 7–20 years after resettlement in Australia

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Clinical Predictors of Influenza in Young Children: The Limitations of "Influenza-Like Illness".

scientific article published on 3 September 2012

Continued dominance of pandemic A(H1N1) 2009 influenza in Victoria, Australia in 2010

scientific article

Cost Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination in Older Adults

scientific article

Debate Regarding Oseltamivir Use for Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza

scientific article

Decreased varicella and increased herpes zoster incidence at a sentinel medical deputising service in a setting of increasing varicella vaccine coverage in Victoria, Australia, 1998 to 2012.

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Detecting the start of an influenza outbreak using exponentially weighted moving average charts

scientific article

Detection of measles virus-specific immunoglobulin M in dried venous blood samples by using a commercial enzyme immunoassay

scientific article

Detection of rubella immunoglobulin M from dried venous blood spots using a commercial enzyme immunoassay

scientific article published on 15 September 2005

Difficulties in documenting immunisation status in general practice

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Dramatic increase in incidence of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in Western Australia

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Dried venous blood samples for the detection and quantification of measles IgG using a commercial enzyme immunoassay

scientific article published on 25 November 2003

Ear disease in three aboriginal communities in Western Australia

scientific article

Early signal detection of adverse events following influenza vaccination using proportional reporting ratio, Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Effectiveness of H1N1/09 monovalent and trivalent influenza vaccines against hospitalization with laboratory-confirmed H1N1/09 influenza in Australia: A test-negative case control study

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Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine against pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus, Australia, 2010

scientific article

Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine in preventing influenza primary care visits and hospitalisation in Auckland, New Zealand in 2015: interim estimates

scientific article

Effectiveness of seasonal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in preventing influenza hospitalisations and primary care visits in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2013

scientific article

Effectiveness of trivalent flu vaccine in healthy young children

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Elimination of endemic measles transmission in Australia

scientific article published on January 2009

Enhanced measles surveillance during an interepidemic period in Victoria

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Epidemiological characteristics of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and seasonal influenza infection.

scientific article

Epidemiology of laboratory confirmed tuberculosis in Victoria, 1990 to 2004.

scientific article published in June 2008

Epidemiology of the 2012 influenza season in Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on July 2013

Establishing thresholds for influenza surveillance in Victoria

scientific article published on January 2003

Estimates of influenza vaccine coverage from Victorian surveillance systems based in the community, primary care and hospitals

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Estimating Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in the Test-negative Design Using Alternative Control Groups - a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article

Estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness in an outbreak when anti-viral medications were used as a control measure

scientific article

Estimating sensitivity and specificity from positive predictive value, negative predictive value and prevalence: application to surveillance systems for hospital-acquired infections.

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

Estimation of influenza vaccine effectiveness from routine surveillance data

scientific article

Estimation of type- and subtype-specific influenza vaccine effectiveness in Victoria, Australia using a test negative case control method, 2007-2008

scientific article

Ethics committees and guardianship legislation

scientific article published in 2003

Ethics committees and guardianship legislation.

scientific article published on October 2003

Evaluation of 'SAEFVIC', A Pharmacovigilance Surveillance Scheme for the Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Events Following Immunisation in Victoria, Australia.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Evaluation of the World Health Organization global measles and rubella quality assurance program, 2001-2008.

scientific article published in July 2011

Evidence of increasing frequency of herpes zoster management in Australian general practice since the introduction of a varicella vaccine

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Evidence-based policies for the control of influenza

scientific article

Exploring a proposed WHO method to determine thresholds for seasonal influenza surveillance.

scientific article

Febrile convulsions after 2010 seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine: implications for vaccine safety surveillance in Australia

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Fifth disease in a small rural community. What are the consequences?

scientific article

Flutracking weekly online community survey of influenza-like illness annual report, 2015.

scientific article

Fragmentation of influenza surveillance in Australia.

scientific article

Geographic representativeness for sentinel influenza surveillance: implications for routine surveillance and pandemic preparedness

scientific article

H1N1 swine origin influenza infection in the United States and Europe in 2009 may be similar to H1N1 seasonal influenza infection in two Australian states in 2007 and 2008.

scientific article

Hepatitis E infections, Victoria, Australia

scientific article

Hepatitis E virus: overseas epidemics and Victorian travellers

scientific article

Herpes zoster in Australia

scientific article published on 18 August 2011

High proportion of influenza B characterises the 2008 influenza season in Victoria

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Higher than expected seasonal influenza activity in Victoria, 2007

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Higher than normal seasonal influenza activity in Victoria, 2003.

scientific article

Hospitalization Fatality Risk of Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article (publication date: 15 August 2015)

Hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly: an Australian case-cohort study

scientific article published on 18 June 2008

Household transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1): a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

ICD-10 codes are a valid tool for identification of pneumonia in hospitalized patients aged > or = 65 years

scientific article published on 20 April 2007

Immunisation at the crossroads: 9th National Immunisation/1st Asia-Pacific Vaccine Preventable Diseases Conference

scientific article

Importation of wild poliovirus into Australia, July 2007

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

In response to: Scientific investigations into febrile reactions observed in the paediatric population following vaccination with a 2010 Southern Hemisphere Trivalent Influenza Vaccine ⬇️

scientific article published on April 28, 2013

Incidence and characteristics of endemic Norwalk-like virus-associated gastroenteritis

scientific article published in April 2003

Incidence of IDDM in Western Australia in children aged 0-14 yr from 1985 to 1989.

scientific article published on April 1992

Incidence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza infection in children and pregnant women during the 2009 influenza season in Western Australia - a seroprevalence study.

scientific article

Influenza A (H1N1) in Victoria, Australia: a community case series and analysis of household transmission

scientific article

Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness and Uptake in Children at Risk of Severe Disease

scientific article published on 7 December 2015

Influenza and pneumococcal vaccine coverage among a random sample of hospitalised persons aged 65 years or more, Victoria

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Influenza outbreaks in aged-care facilities: staff vaccination and the emerging use of antiviral therapy.

scientific article

Influenza surveillance in Australia: we need to do more than count

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Influenza surveillance in Victoria, 2005.

scientific article

Influenza surveillance in Victoria, 2006.

scientific article published in March 2007

Influenza surveillance within hospitals: what is the world doing?

scientific article

Influenza vaccination and mortality in the United States

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Influenza vaccine effectiveness during the 2012 influenza season in Victoria, Australia: influences of waning immunity and vaccine match

scientific article published on 8 November 2013

Influenza vaccine effectiveness for hospital and community patients using control groups with and without non-influenza respiratory viruses detected, Auckland, New Zealand 2014

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Influenza vaccine effectiveness in general practice and in hospital patients in Victoria, 2011-2013.

scientific article published on February 2016

Influenza-like illness surveillance using a deputising medical service corresponds to surveillance from sentinel general practices.

scientific article published on 5 November 2009

Influenza: the rational use of oseltamivir

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Insights from Europe related to pandemic influenza A(H1N1)2009 have international relevance ⬇️

scientific article published on June 30, 2011

Inter-Seasonal Influenza is Characterized by Extended Virus Transmission and Persistence

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

Interhospital comparisons of coronary artery bypass graft surgical site infection rates differ if donor sites are excluded

scientific article published in August 2007

Interim analysis of pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 in Australia: surveillance trends, age of infection and effectiveness of seasonal vaccination.

scientific article

Interim estimates of the effectiveness of seasonal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in preventing influenza hospitalisations and primary care visits in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2014

scientific article

Interruption of rubella virus transmission in Australia may require vaccination of adult males: evidence from a Victorian sero-survey.

scientific article published in January 2004

Investigation of optimal specimen type and sampling time for detection of measles virus RNA during a measles epidemic

scientific article published on January 2001

Is it necessary to adjust for calendar time in a test negative design?: Responding to: Jackson ML, Nelson JC. The test negative design for estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness. Vaccine 2013;31(April (17)):2165-8.

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

Knowledge about hepatitis and previous exposure to hepatitis viruses in immigrants and refugees from the Mekong Region

scientific article published on February 2005

Laboratory Testing and Confirmation of Suspected Measles Infection Crucial in Countries That Have Eliminated Measles

scholarly article by Michaela A. Riddell et al published October 2009 in Annals of Emergency Medicine

Laboratory diagnosis and surveillance of human respiratory viruses by PCR in Victoria, Australia, 2002-2003.

scientific article published on January 2005

Large trials confirm immunogenicity of H1N1 vaccines

scientific article published in The Lancet

Late season interim estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness reliably predict end of season estimates in Victoria, Australia, 2007 to 2012.

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

Lessons from the first year of the WAIVE study investigating the protective effect of influenza vaccine against laboratory-confirmed influenza in hospitalised children aged 6-59 months

scientific article published on July 2010

Letter to the editor: outbreaks caused by parvovirus B19

Low immunity to measles and rubella among female guest workers, northern Mariana Islands

scientific article published on November 2009

Lowering Australia's defence against infectious diseases.

scientific article

Markers of hepatitis B virus infection and immunity in Victoria, Australia, 1995 to 2005.

scientific article published in February 2010

Measles immunity among young adults in Victoria.

scientific article

Measles outbreak in young adults in Victoria, 1999.

scientific article published in November 2000

Measles transmission in healthcare settings in Australia

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Measuring the HIV epidemic: the Western Australian experience

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Missed opportunities to vaccinate a cohort of hospitalised elderly with pneumococcal and influenza vaccines

scientific article published on 21 May 2007

Modelling the effect of seasonal influenza vaccination on the risk of pandemic influenza infection ⬇️

scientific article published on February 25, 2011

Moderate influenza vaccine effectiveness in Victoria, Australia, 2011

scientific article published on March 15, 2012

Moderate influenza vaccine effectiveness with variable effectiveness by match between circulating and vaccine strains in Australian adults aged 20-64 years, 2007-2011.

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

Mortality benefits of influenza vaccination in elderly people.

scientific article published in August 2008

Mumps and rubella: a year of enhanced surveillance and laboratory testing

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

No-fault compensation following adverse events attributed to vaccination: a review of international programmes ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 2011

Norovirus excretion in a healthcare worker without major symptoms of gastroenteritis: infection control implications

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Notification of infectious diseases by general practitioners in rural Western Australia

scientific article published on 01 April 1995

Oral poliovirus vaccine type 3 from a patient with transverse myelitis is neurovirulent in a transgenic mouse model

scientific article published on 9 March 2009

Oseltamivir reduces clinical illness in households in Bangladesh

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

PIN27 THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSAL INFLUENZA VACCINATION FOR 50-64 YEAR-OLDS IN AUSTRALIA

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Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza community transmission was established in one Australian state when the virus was first identified in North America

scientific article

Pandemic H1N1 influenza lessons from the southern hemisphere

scientific article published on 22 October 2009

Pandemic H1N1 influenza surveillance in Victoria, Australia, April - September, 2009.

scientific article

Pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 infection in Victoria, Australia: no evidence for harm or benefit following receipt of seasonal influenza vaccine in 2009.

scientific article

Pandemic influenza H1N1: reconciling serosurvey data with estimates of the reproduction number

scientific article

Parasite‐Specific IgG Response and Peripheral Blood Eosinophil Count Following Albendazole Treatment for Presumed Chronic Strongyloidiasis

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Persistent risk of tuberculosis in migrants a decade after arrival in Australia.

scientific article published on May 2008

Polioviruses and other enteroviruses isolated from faecal samples of patients with acute flaccid paralysis in Australia, 1996-2004

scientific article (publication date: June 2006)

Pooled influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates for Australia, 2012-2014.

scientific article

Prevention of community-acquired pneumonia among a cohort of hospitalized elderly: benefit due to influenza and pneumococcal vaccination not demonstrated

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Protective effect of maritime quarantine in South Pacific jurisdictions, 1918-19 influenza pandemic

scientific article

Quantifying differences in the epidemic curves from three influenza surveillance systems: a nonlinear regression analysis

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Re-emerging poliomyelitis--is Australia's surveillance adequate?

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Recombinant hepatitis B vaccine and the risk of multiple sclerosis: a prospective study

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Remaining measles challenges in Australia.

scientific article

Reply to Skull et al

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Report on a workshop on the laboratory diagnosis of measles

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Residual susceptibility to measles among young adults in Victoria, Australia following a national targeted measles-mumps-rubella vaccination campaign.

scientific article

Safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccines

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Seasonal Influenza Vaccination and the 2009 Pandemic ⬇️

article by Geoffry Mercer & Heath Kelly published 15 March 2011 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates: Development of a parsimonious case test negative model using a causal approach

scientific article

Serum alanine aminotransferase levels and the detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in chronic HCV infections.

scientific article

Sevenfold rise in likelihood of pertussis test requests in a stable set of Australian general practice encounters, 2000-2011.

scientific article published on June 2013

Simulation suggests that rapid activation of social distancing can arrest epidemic development due to a novel strain of influenza

scientific article

Statement that clinical studies had demonstrated bioCSL's seasonal influenza vaccines had acceptable safety profile in all age groups is not supported by the data

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic with pre-pandemic H5N1 vaccines.

scientific article

Stratified estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness by prior vaccination: caution required

scientific article published on 25 April 2013

Sustained increase in infectious syphilis notifications in Victoria.

scientific article published in August 2005

Sustained measles elimination in Australia and priorities for long term maintenance

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Systematic review of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus shedding: duration is affected by severity, but not age.

scientific article

The Vaccine-attributable Risk for Febrile Convulsions Following Influenza Vaccine ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

The age-specific cumulative incidence of infection with pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 was similar in various countries prior to vaccination

scientific article

The age-specific prevalence of human parvovirus immunity in Victoria, Australia compared with other parts of the world

scientific article

The association of seasonal influenza vaccination with pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 infection

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The causes and diagnosis of influenza-like illness.

scientific article

The cost-effectiveness of a universal influenza vaccination program for adults aged 50-64 years in Australia

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The effectiveness of influenza vaccination in preventing hospitalisation in children in Western Australia.

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

The effectiveness of seasonal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in preventing laboratory confirmed influenza hospitalisations in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012

scientific article

The impact of pandemic A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza and vaccine-associated adverse events on parental attitudes and influenza vaccine uptake in young children.

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

The risk of fever following one dose of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in children aged ≥6 months to <36 months: a comparison of published and unpublished studies

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The significance of increased influenza notifications during spring and summer of 2010-11 in Australia

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The spread of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Victorian school children in 2009: implications for revised pandemic planning

scientific article

Transmission of the First Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Pandemic Wave in Australia Was Driven by Undetected Infections: Pandemic Response Implications.

scientific article

Understanding influenza vaccine protection in the community: an assessment of the 2013 influenza season in Victoria, Australia

scientific article

Undiagnosed and potentially lethal parasite infections among immigrants and refugees in Australia

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Using samples to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of a surveillance process

scientific article published in June 2008

Using the two-source capture-recapture method to estimate the incidence of acute flaccid paralysis in Victoria, Australia

scientific article

Vaccine Effectiveness Against Laboratory-confirmed Influenza in Healthy Young Children

scientific article published in February 2011

Validation of coronary artery bypass graft surgical site infection surveillance data from a statewide surveillance system in Australia

scientific article

Validity of self-reported influenza and pneumococcal vaccination status among a cohort of hospitalized elderly inpatients

scientific article published on 26 April 2007

Variable definitions of the influenza season and their impact on vaccine effectiveness estimates

scientific article published on 9 July 2013

Verification of measles elimination in Australia: Application of World Health Organization regional guidelines

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Vigilance is required for Australia to remain polio free

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Was the adult Victorian attack rate for pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 lower than expected?

We should not be complacent about our population-based public health response to the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century

scientific article

What factors facilitate a GP survey high response rate?

scientific article published in October 2005

What is the cause of a rash after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination?

scientific article published on August 1999

Working towards a simple case definition for influenza surveillance.

scientific article

bioCSL Limited's 2009 clinical trial to assess the immunogenicity and safety of trivalent influenza vaccine in US children raises concern

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

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