2017 Volume 43 - Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR)

ISSN: 1481-8531

2017 Volume 43

CCDR: Volume 43-12, December 7, 2017: Can we eliminate HIV?

• HIV in Canada—Surveillance Report, 2016
• AIDS in Canada—Surveillance Report, 2016
• HIV in Canada—Supplementary tables, 2016
• AIDS in Canada—Supplementary tables, 2016
• Assessing uptake of national HIV screening and testing guidance—Part 1: Awareness, use and usefulness
• Assessing uptake of national HIV screening and testing guidance—Part 2: Knowledge, comfort and practice
• Setting the stage for expanding HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use in Canada
• Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network position statement: Nonculture based diagnostics for gastroenteritis and implications for public health investigations
• Addendum to the NACI Statement on Seasonal Influenza Vaccine for 2017–2018

CCDR: Volume 43-11, November 2, 2017: Antimicrobial resistance and One Health

• Pan-Canadian framework for action on antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use
• Enhancing antimicrobial stewardship by strengthening the veterinary drug regulatory framework
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s research program on antimicrobial resistance 
• Surveillance of laboratory exposures to human pathogens and toxins: Canada 2016
• Tuberculosis drug resistance in Canada: 2006–2016
• Tuberculosis drug resistance in Canada: 2006–2016 Supplementary data
• New vaccine administration practice recommendations from the Canadian Immunization Guide
• Hepatitis A virus infection associated with cannabis use
• ID News: Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System - 2017 Report highlights

CCDR: Volume 43-10, October 5, 2017: Emerging infections

• Surveillance for Lyme disease in Canada: 2009–2015
• Blastomycosis hospitalizations in northwestern Ontario: 2006–2015
• Emerging infectious diseases: prediction and detection
• Synopsis: Lyme Disease in Canada – A Federal Framework
• ID News: Measuring health burden and climate change
• ID News: Emerging issues with fungal disease outbreaks
• ID News: How close are we to a Zika vaccine
• Correction: Correction for Can Commun Dis Rep. Supplement 2008;34(S2)

CCDR: Volume 43-9, September 7, 2017: Scientific writing

• A guide to publishing scientific research in the health sciences
• A Critical Appraisal Toolkit (CAT) for assessing multiple types of evidence
• A reporting guide for Rapid Communications
• A reporting guide for Surveys
• Salmonella Thompson outbreak associated with consumption of chicken shawarma and the usefulness of genome sequencing in the investigation
• Concurrent infection increases mortality from other illnesses
• Breast milk and microbes

CCDR: Volume 43-7-8, July 6, 2017 (July/August Issue): Outbreak detection

• Increase in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W invasive disease in Canada: 2009–2016
• First reported case of multidrug-resistant Candida auris in Canada
• An outbreak of Shiga toxin‑producing Escherichia coli O121 infections associated with flour—Canada, 2016–2017
• Public health surveillance for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games
• Canada’s pandemic vaccine strategy
• ID News: Increase in MenW in the Netherlands and an atypical presentation
• ID News: Ongoing transmission of Candida auris in the United States

CCDR: Volume 43-6, June 1, 2017: Indigenous health

• The use of technology to improve health care to Saskatchewan’s First Nations communities
• Outbreaks in the age of syndemics: New insights for improving Indigenous health
• Evaluating the timeliness of reporting in a First Nations communicable diseases program
• Summary of the NACI Update on the recommended use of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: Nine-valent HPV vaccine two-dose immunization schedule and the use of HPV vaccines in immunocompromised populations
• ID News: Treatment update for hepatitis C virus-Genotype 3
• ID News: Viruses that infect bacteria

CCDR: Volume 43-5, May 4, 2017: Implementation science

• The emerging Haemophilus influenzae serotype a infection and a potential vaccine: Implementation science in action
• Developing a vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae serotype a: Proceedings of a workshop
• Summary of the NACI Statement on Seasonal Influenza Vaccine for 2017–2018
• Summary of the NACI Update on the Recommended Use of Hepatitis B Vaccine
• Mycobacterium chimaera infections in post-operative patients exposed to heater–cooler devices: An overview
• Evaluation of latent tuberculosis infection surveillance in Peel region, Ontario, 2010–2014
• ID News: Bacteremia in children following introduction of conjugated pneumococcal vaccines
• ID News: Risk assessment for Mycobacterium chimaera

CCDR: Volume 43-3/4, March 2, 2017 (March/April issue): Tuberculosis (TB)

• Latent tuberculosis infection: An overview
• A shorter treatment regimen for latent tuberculosis infection holds promise for at-risk Canadians
• Outbreak of tuberculosis among substance users and homeless people in Greater Montréal, Canada, 2003-2016
• Tuberculosis in Canada - Summary 2015
• Tuberculosis in Canada: 2015 Supplementary data
• CPHLN device testing recommendations regarding non-tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) contamination in heater-cooler units
• CCDR call for submissions
• ID News: Markers that may differentiate active from latent TB
• Author correction for Can Commun Dis Rep. 2016;42(1)

CCDR: Volume 43-2, February 2, 2017: Sexually transmitted infections

• What are Canadian primary care physicians prescribing for the treatment of gonorrhea?
• Evidence for optimal HIV testing intervals in HIV-negative individuals from various risk groups: a systematic review protocol
• Use of a 40-day rolling incidence to monitor pertussis in Nova Scotia, 2015
• Canada Communicable Disease Report 2016 readership survey
• Interim Canadian Recommendations for the use of fractional dose of yellow fever vaccine during a vaccine shortage: Now in effect
• ID News: Recommendations on the prevention and treatment of Zika virus for Canadian health care professionals: 3rd Update
• ID News: Use of motion comics for STI education
• Authors' corrections for Can Commun Dis Rep. 2016;42(11)
• CCDR correction for Can Commun Dis Rep. 2017;43(1)

CCDR: Volume 43-1, January 5, 2017: Enteric disease outbreaks

• Analysis of enteric disease outbreak metrics, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 2005-2014
• Foodborne and waterborne illness among Canadian Indigenous populations: A scoping review
• Outbreak of Salmonella Reading in persons of Eastern Mediterranean origin in Canada, 2014-2015
• Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with contaminated pork products -- Alberta, Canada, July-October 2014
• Interim laboratory testing guidelines for the detection of non-tuberculous Mycobacterium (NTM) infections in post-operative patients exposed to heater-cooler units
• Information for authors: 2017
• ID News: FluWatch Report: December 11 to 17, 2016
• ID News: Human cases of West Nile virus in Canada, 2016