Resources

1 April 2010 - This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) outlines key considerations for developing policies to improve environmental health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

29 March 2010 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for listeriosis.

1 January 2010 - These Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) guidelines aim to help public health units deal with outbreaks of norovirus and suspected viral gastroenteritis.

30 October 2009 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for rubella.

30 October 2009 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for measles.

27 January 2009 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for diphtheria.

23 January 2009 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for chlamydia.

29 October 2008 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for tularaemia, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

14 August 2008 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for cholera, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

27 October 2006 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for tuberculosis.

25 October 2006 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for brucellosis.

25 September 2006 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for norovirus.

25 September 2006 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for cholera.

20 April 2005 - The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for shiga-like toxigenic Escherichia coli.

1 January 2005 - This document gives guidelines on how laboratories should test for gonorrhoeae using nucleic acid detection.

12 April 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for haemophilus influenzae type b, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for anthrax, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for Australian bat lyssavirus infection, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for botulism, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for campylobacteriosis, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for malaria, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for flavivirus infection (unspecified), which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for hepatitis B (unspecified), which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for hepatitis D, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

12 March 2004 - This document contains the surveillance case definition for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.