NZPHSR - March 2015
Tuesday 21st March 2023
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Contents and Highlights
1. Editorial
• 2014 outbreaks of enterovirus D68 in United States and Canada: an alert for New Zealand
2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
• Chikungunya Fever
• Dengue Fever
• Gastroenteritis (acute)
• Hepatitis (not otherwise specified)
• Measles
• Toxic Shellfish Poisoning
• Yersiniosis
• Zika Fever
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Meningococcal Disease
• Pertussis
• Salmonellosis
3. Other Surveillance Reports
• Hospital-based rotavirus surveillance begins in 2015
• Tuberculosis epidemiology, 2013
4. Outbreak Surveillance
• 184 outbreaks (2456 cases) notified in this quarter
• 146 final reports (2169 cases); 38 interim reports (287 cases)
• 14.9 cases per outbreak on average
• 17 hospitalisations, 3 deaths
5. Outbreak Case Reports
• No reports this quarter
6. Laboratory Surveillance
• Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae
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