title: Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2005: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
abstract: In 2005, 60 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 125,461 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System: an increase of 10% on the number of notifications in 2004. In 2005, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (51,557 notifications, 41% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (29,422 notifications, 23%) and bloodborne diseases (19,278 notifications, 15%). There were 17,753 notifications of vaccine preventable diseases; 4,935 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,826 notification of other bacterial infections (legionellosis, leprosy, meningococcal infections and tuberculosis) and 687 notifications of zoonotic diseases.
authors.affiliation: Surveillance Policy and Systems Section, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra ACT. rhonda.owen@health.gov.au
authors.forename: Rhonda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: Paul W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Roche
authors.forename: Kirsty
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hope
authors.forename: Keflemariam
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yohannes
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Conan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stirzaker
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bartlett
authors.forename: Basil
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Donovan
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: East
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fitzsimmons
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McDonald
authors.forename: Peter B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: McIntyre
authors.forename: Robert I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Menzies
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D017678:Sex Distribution