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Diseases - a complete listing
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Diseases are listed below with links to the following resources:
- Blue book - Guidelines for the control of infectious disease
- Notification - Notifying cases of infectious diseases in Victoria
- Immunisation - Immunisation information for vaccine preventable diseases
- Exclusion - Minimum period of exclusion from schools and children's services centres for infectious diseases cases and contacts
- Other resources related to the disease
- A
- Acute bacterial conjunctivitisAmoebiasisAnthraxArbovirus infections
- Notification
- Specific links...
Ascariasis (round worm infection)Australian arboencephalitis- Notification
- Specific links...
Avian influenza (bird flu)- Notification
- Specific links...
- B
- Barmah Forest virus disease
- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
BotulismBrucellosis (undulant fever, Malta fever) - C
- Campylobacter
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion
- Specific links...
Chickenpox or shingles (varicella / herpes zoster)Chikungunya virus infectionChlamydia (genital)- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Chlamydophila pneumoniaeCholeraCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Croup or bronchiolitisCryptococcal infectionCryptosporidiosis- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) - D
- Dengue virus disease
- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
DiphtheriaDonovanosis - E
- Erythema infectiosum
- F
- Food or water-borne illness
- G
- Gastroenteritis
- Exclusion
- Specific links...
Giardiasis- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Gonorrhoea - H
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)Haemorrhagic feversHand, foot and mouth diseaseHead liceHendra and Nipah virusesHepatitis A
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion
- Specific links...
Hepatitis B- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Hepatitis C- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Hepatitis D (delta hepatitis)Hepatitis EHerpes simplex infectionsHIV (Human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion
- Specific links...
- Safe Sex
- Sexually transmissible infections - treatment is good, prevention is best
- HIV/AIDS - your questions answered
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Guidelines for the management in Victoria of people living with HIV who put others at risk - STIs - where to go for help
- Something borrowed, something new: Addressing increased rates of HIV and STI transmission among gay men in Victoria action plan 2008 - 2010
Hydatid disease (echinococcosis) - I
- Impetigo (school sores)Infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever)Influenza
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion |
Immunisation - Specific links...
Invasive pneumococcal disease - Blue book | Notification | Exclusion |
- J
- Japanese encephalitis
- K
- Kunjin virus disease
- L
- Legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease)
- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Leprosy (Hansen's disease)LeptospirosisListeria- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
ListeriosisLyssavirus - M
- Malaria
- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Measles (rubeola)MelioidosisMeningcoccal disease- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion |
Immunisation - Specific links...
Molluscum contagiosum- Blue book
- Specific links...
MumpsMurray Valley encephalitis virus- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Mycobacterial infections (tuberculosis)- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion
- Specific links...
- See: Tuberculosis
Mycobacterial infections - Atypical (non-tuberculosis)Mycobacterium ulcerans- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
- P
- ParatyphoidPediculosisPertussis
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion |
Immunisation - Specific links...
Pinworm infection (threadworm)PlaguePneumococcal infectionPoliomyelitisPsittacosis- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion |
- Q
- Q fever
- Blue book | Notification | Immunisation
- Specific links...
- R
- Rabies and Australian bat lyssavirusRickettsial infectionsRingworm or tineaRoss River virus disease
- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Rotaviral gastroenteritisRubella - S
- Salmonellosis
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion
- Specific links...
ScabiesScarlet FeverSevere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion
- Specific links...
Shigellosis- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Smallpox (variola)Staphylococcal infectionsStreptococcal infection (Group A beta haemolytic streptococcus)- Blue book | Exclusion
- Specific links...
- See: Impetigo
- See: Scarlet fever
Syphilis - T
- TaeniasisTetanusToxoplasmosisTuberculosis
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion
- Specific links...
- Tuberculosis - the facts
- Tuberculosis - treatment information for patients
- Tablets for latent tuberculosis infection
- I have a positive skin test for tuberculosis – public health information
- Information for contacts of tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis management, prevention and control: Guidelines for health care providers 2002-05
- Tuberculosis provider resources
- Tuberculosis information in languages other than English
TularaemiaTyphoid and paratyphoid feverTyphus - V
- Varicella
- -
- Specific links...
- See: chickenpox
Viral gastroenteritis- Blue book
- Specific links...
Viral haemorrhagic feversVTEC (Verotoxin producing E.Coli) - W
- Whooping cough
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion |
Immunisation - Specific links...
- See: Pertussis
- Blue book | Notification | Exclusion |
- Y
- Yellow fever
- Blue book | Notification
- Specific links...
Yersiniosis

