Fact sheets

The Department of Health, Western Australia, does not produce fact sheets on this topic.

Public Health action

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

• OD 0231/09 Adult Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunisation Program - 2009

• Australian Immunisation Handbook

• Communicable Disease Guidelines, for teachers, child care workers, local government authorities and medical preactitioners. Department of Health, Western Australia

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date pneumococcal infection notification data

• General infectious disease reports  

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual 

• The Meningitis Centre (external link)

Case definition

Reporting

Only confirmed cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence only.

Laboratory definitive evidence

1. Isolation of Streptococcus pneumoniae from a normally sterile site by culture
OR

2. Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae from a normally sterile site by nucleic acid testing.