title: Australia's notifiable disease status, 2008: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
abstract: In 2008, 65 communicable diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 160,508 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 9% on the number of notifications in 2007. In 2008, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (69,459 notifications, 43% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (34,225 notifications, 21% of total notifications) and gastrointestinal diseases (27,308 notifications, 17% of total notifications). There were 18,207 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 8,876 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,796 notifications of other bacterial infections; 633 notifications of zoonoses and 4 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
authors.forename: Leah
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authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Stefan
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authors.lastname: Stirzaker
authors.forename: Dougald
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authors.lastname: Knuckey
authors.forename: Kate
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authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Jennie
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authors.lastname: Hood
authors.forename: Katrina
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authors.lastname: Knope
authors.forename: Gerard
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authors.lastname: Fitzsimmons
authors.forename: Susan
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authors.lastname: Barker
authors.forename: Nicolee
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authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Samantha
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authors.lastname: Siripol
authors.forename: Indra
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authors.lastname: Gajanayake
authors.forename: Marlena
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authors.lastname: Kaczmarek
authors.forename: Ian
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authors.lastname: Barr
authors.forename: Aurysia
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authors.lastname: Hii
authors.forename: Ruth
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authors.lastname: Foxwell
authors.forename: Rhonda
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authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: Conan
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authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Phil
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authors.lastname: Wright
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authors.lastname: Sanders
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authors.lastname: Barry
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authors.lastname: Ormond
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance; D055815:Young Adult