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Communicable diseases: a guide for health professionals

Queensland Health’s Communicable Diseases Branch  is responsible for the surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases in Queensland. This section provides information on individual communicable diseases, key resources for health professionals and related links.

Clinical information

• Visit our A to Z of communicable diseases to access clinical guidelines, notification forms, data and easy to read fact sheets for all notifiable conditions in Queensland.
• Environmental health workers online resource manual
• Infection control
• Notifiable conditions report form (PDF, 54kb)
• Public Health Act 2005:
     contagious conditions
     notifiable conditions 
• Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Act 2003 (PDF, 604kb).

Communicable diseases by topic

• A to Z of communicable diseases
• Animal/insect borne diseases
• Bacterial infections
• Communicable diseases homepage
• Fungal infections
• Food borne disease
• HIV/AIDS
• Hepatitis
• Immunisation
• Pandemic influenza
• Parasites
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Sexual health
• Skin diseases
• Tuberculosis
• Viral infections.

Surveillance and research

• HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and sexual health surveillance and research
• Immunisation data
• Mosquito borne (vector) disease surveillance and research
• Tuberculosis surveillance and mycobacterial research.

Public Health News

The Public Health News is a quarterly newsletter from the CDC teams of Brisbane Northside and Moreton Bay. Its purpose is to inform and educate readers on issues of public health importance.

• Public Health News Vol 16, Issue 2

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