title: Australia's notifiable disease status, 2007: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
abstract: In 2007, 69 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 146,991 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 5% on the number of notifications in 2006. In 2007, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (62,474 notifications, 43% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (30,325 notifications, 21% of total notifications) and vaccine preventable diseases (25,347 notifications, 17% of total notifications). There were 19,570 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 6,823 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,762 notifications of other bacterial infections; 687 notifications of zoonoses and 3 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
authors.affiliation: Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, ACT. conan.liu@health.gov.au
authors.forename: Conan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stirzaker
authors.forename: Dougald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Knuckey
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Katrina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Knope
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fitzsimmons
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wall
authors.forename: Katrina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Roper
authors.forename: Nicolee
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: Rhonda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: Aurysia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hii
authors.forename: Christiana
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: Phil
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Lance
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fielding
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