Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2005: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
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.
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Surveillance Policy and Systems Section, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra ACT. rhonda.owen@health.gov.au
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Yohannes
Keflemariam
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Roberts
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Liu
Conan
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Stirzaker
Stefan
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Kong
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Bartlett
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Donovan
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Fitzsimmons
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McDonald
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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