Blue book - Guidelines for the control of infectious diseases
Page content: Introduction | Contents | Download document | Purchase a hard copy | Acknowledgements | Disclaimer | References | Other sources | Further information
Introduction
The blue book: guidelines for the control of infectious diseases has been published by the Communicable Diseases Section, Public Health Group, Victorian Department of Human Services, to assist public health practitioners in the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The Department of Human Services is committed to enhancing and protecting the health and well-being of all Victorians. Our challenge, together with public health practitioners, is to reduce community risk from communicable disease in Victoria through the implementation of patient focused and population focused control strategies based on surveillance and risk assessment.
Information for each disease in this edition covers:
- Victorian statutory requirement for notification and exclusion
- infectious agent(s)
- identification
- incubation period
- public health significance and occurrence
- reservoir
- mode of transmission
- period of communicability
- susceptibility and resistance
- control measures for patients and contacts
- outbreak measures
- international measures if applicable
- sources of further information if applicable
The first edition of The blue book: guidelines for the control of infectious diseases (1996) was used as the basis for this second edition. As treatments change over time health care workers should consult the current version of Therapeutic guidelines: antibiotic (Therapeutic Guidelines Limited) for up to date information. The blue book is not intended to replace appropriate referral or the need to seek further professional advice.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- Abbreviations used
- Acute bacterial conjunctivitis
- Amoebiasis
- Anthrax
- Ascariasis (round worm infection)
- Barmah Forest virus disease
- Botulism
- Brucellosis (undulant fever, Malta fever)
- Campylobacter infection
- Chicken pox or shingles (varicella / herpes zoster)
- Chlamydia (genital infection)
- Chlamydophila pneumoniae
- Cholera
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
- Croup or bronchiolitis
- Cryptococcal infection (cryptococcosis)
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cytomegalovirus infection
- Dengue virus disease
- Diphtheria
- Donovanosis
- Erythema infectiosum (human parvovirus infection or slapped cheek disease)
- Food or water-borne illness
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhoea
- Haemophilus influenzae infections
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Hendra & Nipah viruses
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D (delta hepatitis)
- Hepatitis E
- Herpes simplex infections
- Human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- Hydatid disease (echinococcosis)
- Impetigo (school sores)
- Related information
Last updated: 7 February, 2008
This web site is managed and authorised by Communicable Disease Control,
Public Health Branch,
Rural & Regional Health & Aged Care Services Division of the
Victorian State Government, Department of Human Services, Australia