Infectious Diseases & Immunisation
Key resources
- Australian Immunisation Handbook !
- NCIRS – National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance !
- ASHM – HIV, viral hepatitis and sexual health medicine !
- Australian Centre for Disease Control !
- Communicable diseases – information for health professionals (WA) !
- Infectious disease – professional manual !
- Australasian College of Tropical Medicine !
- Infectious diseases – consumer hub !
Immunisation schedules & catch-up vaccination, National Immunisation Program, NIP schedule, catch-up vaccination, vaccine 15
- National Immunisation Program schedule !
- Catch-up vaccination !
- Immunisation schedule and catch-up vaccines (WA) !
- Immunisation provider information and resources (WA) !
- Aboriginal immunisation (WA) !
- Immunisation schedules (all states) !
- Co-administration of vaccines for adults !
- Vaccination for people with immunocompromise – FAQs !
- Immunisation and vaccinations for your child !
- Vaccination and needle phobia – fact sheet !
Adverse events following immunisation vaccine reaction, vaccine side effects 5
Travel medicine travel vaccination, pre-travel consultation, traveller 8
Fever in the returned traveller & malaria malaria, dengue, typhoid, tropical fever 8
Antimicrobial stewardship antibiotic prescribing, antibiotic resistance, AMR, gentamicin dosing, penicillin allergy, NAPS 9
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard !
- Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship program (AURA) !
- National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (NAPS) !
- Optimal antimicrobial duration for common bacterial infections (2019) !
- Shorter antibiotic courses – but why? (2019) !
- Gentamicin: a great way to start (dosing and monitoring) !
- Antimicrobial guidelines (children) !
- Adult penicillin allergy management guidelines !
- Antibiotics !
Hepatitis B HBV, chronic hepatitis B, hepatitis B vaccination 9
Hepatitis C HCV, direct-acting antivirals, DAA 8
- Decision making in hepatitis C !
- Australian recommendations for the management of hepatitis C: consensus statement !
- National hepatitis C testing policy !
- Hepatitis C learning hub !
- Elimination of hepatitis C in Australia by 2030 (2021) !
- Hepatitis C – notification and public health (WA) !
- Hepatitis C !
- Hepatitis C !
HIV human immunodeficiency virus, AIDS, PrEP, PEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis, post-exposure prophylaxis 9
Tuberculosis TB, latent TB, LTBI, BCG, Mantoux, IGRA 9
Influenza flu, flu vaccine, influenza antivirals, oseltamivir 10
COVID-19 coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, long COVID, COVID vaccine 8
Measles rubeola, MMR, measles exposure 7
Pertussis (whooping cough) whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, pertussis vaccine, antenatal pertussis vaccination 8
Gastroenteritis & C. difficile gastro, infectious diarrhoea, Clostridioides difficile, C. diff, norovirus, food poisoning 9
- Gastroenteritis – clinical guideline (children) !
- Enteric infections – communicable disease control guidelines (WA) !
- Clostridioides difficile infection !
- Controlling Clostridium difficile (2013) !
- Healthcare associated infections (WA) !
- Gastroenteritis !
- Gastroenteritis !
- Gastroenteritis – fact sheet !
- School exclusion periods !
Skin & soft tissue infections cellulitis, impetigo, school sores, abscess, MRSA, necrotising fasciitis, staph infection 10
- Cellulitis and other bacterial skin infections – clinical guideline !
- National Healthy Skin Guideline (2nd ed) – skin infections in remote communities !
- Bacterial skin and soft tissue infections (2016) !
- Cellulitis !
- Necrotising soft tissue infection !
- Cellulitis !
- Impetigo !
- MRSA – notification and control (WA) !
- Impetigo (school sores) !
- Staph infections – fact sheet !
Melioidosis & tropical infections Burkholderia pseudomallei, strongyloides, strongyloidiasis, leptospirosis, scrub typhus, rickettsial infection, Kimberley 9
Q fever Coxiella burnetii, Q fever vaccine, Q-VAX 5
Japanese encephalitis & mosquito-borne disease in WA Japanese encephalitis, JEV, Murray Valley encephalitis, Kunjin, Ross River virus, Barmah Forest virus, arbovirus 10
- Japanese encephalitis !
- Japanese encephalitis – FAQs !
- Japanese encephalitis – notification (WA) !
- Murray Valley encephalitis – notification (WA) !
- Ross River virus – notification (WA) !
- Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes in Western Australia !
- Prevent mosquito bites !
- Japanese encephalitis !
- Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus !
- Insect repellents – guidelines for safe use !
Notifiable diseases notification, statutory notification, public health unit, communicable disease reporting 9
- A–Z notifiable infectious diseases and how to notify (WA) !
- About statutory medical notifications in WA !
- Communicable disease statutory notification form – metropolitan !
- Communicable disease statutory notification form – rural !
- Contact details for WA public health units !
- Health alerts – infectious diseases (WA) !
- Notifiable infectious diseases dashboard (WA) !
- Communicable disease guidelines booklet (WA) !
- Australian Centre for Disease Control – national surveillance !
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