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Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial
Infectious disease modelling and reproductive number R0
2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
- Acute Rheumatic Fever
- Campylobacteriosis
- Chemical Poisoning
- Gastroenteritis
- Hepatitis A
- Yersiniosis
- Rickettsial Disease
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Legionellosis
- Meningococcal Disease
- Pertussis
- Shigellosis
3. Other Surveillance Reports
- 2005 antimicrobial resistance data from hospital and community laboratories
- Mass chlorine poisonings at a swimming pool
4. Outbreak Surveillance
- 134 outbreaks (1210 cases) notified in this quarter
- 80 ‘final’ reports (1054 cases); 54 ‘interim’ reports (156 cases)
- 13.2 cases per outbreak on average
- 22 hospitalisations, 5 deaths
5. Outbreak Case Reports
- ESBL-producing Shigella flexneri outbreak in Auckland
- Norovirus outbreak in New Plymouth from Korean oysters
6. Pathogen Surveillance
- 311 human and 250 non-human Salmonella isolates confirmed
- 13 E. coli O157:H7 cases laboratory confirmed
- 12 Legionella cases laboratory identified, 1 death
- 48 parainfluenza viruses reported
- 97 adenoviruses reported
- 55 enteroviruses reported
- 8 isolates of Listeria monocytogenes referred
- 9 isolates of Corynebacterium diphtheriae received
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