NZPHSR - September 2010

Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial
All health care workers play a role in fighting tuberculosis

2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Giardiasis
  • Hepatitis B
  • Measles
  • Pertussis
  • Toxic shellfish poisoning
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Dengue fever
  • Lead absorption
  • Rubella
  • Salmonellosis
  • Yersiniosis
3. Other Surveillance Reports
  • Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, 2009
  • Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, 2009
  • Elevated mercury levels in a family
4. Outbreak Surveillance
  • 151 outbreaks (977 cases) notified in this quarter
  • 111 ‘final’ reports (760 cases); 40 ‘interim’ reports (217 cases)
  • 6.8 cases per outbreak on average
  • 11 hospitalisations, no deaths
5. Outbreak Case Reports
  • Outbreak of Clostridium perfringens gastroenteritis at an Auckland wedding, January 2010
  • An investigation into an increase in notified giardiasis cases in Waikato
6. Laboratory Surveillance
  • Surveillance of the zoonotic bacterial pathogen Salmonella in New Zealand

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NZPHSR Sep 2010

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NZPHSR Sep 2010: References

NZPHSR Sep 2010: Mycology Jan-Jun 2009

NZPHSR Sep 2010: Mycology Jul-Dec 2009
 

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