Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR)

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. Learn more about CCDR.

Latest issue: Volume 52-5, May 2026: Threat Assessment in Public Health

Implementation Science

Using a consensus-based approach to build a threat assessment tool for use in a Canadian federal public health setting
G Brankston, C Dulong, C Elliott, J Middleton, A Sandhu, L Whitmore

Assessing public health threats: An overview of coordinated threat assessment at the Public Health Agency of Canada
G Brankston, E Bagree, R Ahmad, C Dulong, C Elliott, E Galanis, J Middleton, A Sandhu, L Whitmore

Survey Report

Laboratory diagnosis of pertussis: A survey on provincial public health laboratory methods
C Meilleur, J Grant, G Tyrrell, J Minion, P Van Caeseele, J Kus, B Lefebvre, T Hatchette, G Desnoyers, L Jiao, H Paulin, R Tsang

Surveillance

Device and surgical procedure-related infections in Canadian acute care hospitals, 2020–2024
Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program

Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in Canadian acute care hospitals, 2020–2024
Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program