Syndrome | Condition or pathogen | Temperate Australia or New Zealand | Tropical Australia | Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Oceania |
Acute fever | Malaria | | | + |
Enteric fever | | | + |
Amoebic liver abscess | | + | + |
Leptospirosis | + | + | + |
Q fever* | + | + | |
Scrub typhus and tick typhus* | + | + | + (PNG) |
Melioidosis | | + | + |
Acute diarrhea | Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli | + | + | + |
Rotavirus, Norwalk, other viruses | + | + | + |
Campylobacter | + | + | + |
Salmonella, Shigella | + | + | + |
Amoebiasis (Entamoeba histolytica) | | + | + |
Ciguatera poisoning | | + | + |
Rash | Ross River virus* | + | + | + |
Barmah forest virus* | + | + | |
Dengue | | + | + |
Tick typhus* | | + | + (PNG) |
Scrub typhus* | | + | + |
Pneumonia | Streptococcus pneumoniae and other common respiratory pathogens | + | + | + |
Psittacosis | + | + | |
Q fever* | | + | + |
Neurologic problems | Bacterial meningitis due to common pathogens | + | + | + |
Eosinophilic meningitis | | + | + |
Murray Valley encephalitis* | + | + | + |
Japanese B encephalitis | | + | + (PNG) |
Cryptococcosis | + | + | + |
Ciguatera fish poisoning | | + | + |
Tick paralysis | | + | |
Acute polyarthritis | Ross River virus* | + | + | + |
Barmah forest virus* | + | + | |
Chikungunya | | | + |
Jaundice | Hepatitis A or B | + | + | + |
Malaria | | | + |
Skin ulcer | Tropical ulcer infected with Streptococcus pyogenes or S. aureus | | + | + |
Infected coral injury | | + | + |
Mycobacterium ulcerans* | + | + | |
Melioidosis | | + | + |
Cutaneous diphtheria | | + | + |