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During the past forty years, statistical modelling and simulation have come to frame perceptions of epidemic disease and to determine public health interventions that might limit or suppress the transmission of the causative agent. The influence of such formulaic disease modelling has pervaded public health policy and practice during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This is Australia’s first peer-reviewed evidence-based assessment of the epidemiology of HAIs using publicly available data from hospital-acquired complications (HACs) state-based surveillance systems and peer-reviewed and grey literature sources.

Cryptococcal meningitis (CM), a life-threatening systemic, opportunistic fungal infection, occurs mainly in patients with defective cellular immunity. Cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) detection could direct the timely initiation of antifungal therapy.

Exposure to people with TB substantially elevates a person’s risk of tuberculous infection and TB disease. Systematic screening of TB contacts enables the early detection and treatment of co-prevalent disease, and the opportunity to prevent future TB disease.