title: Australia's notifiable disease status, 2012: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
abstract: In 2012, 65 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 243,822 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 2% on the number of notifications in 2011. In 2012, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (99,250 notifications, 40.7% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (85,810 notifications, 35.2% of total notifications), and gastrointestinal diseases (31,155 notifications, 12.8% of total notifications). There were 16,846 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 8,305 notifications of vector-borne diseases; 1,924 notifications of other bacterial infections; 578 notifications of zoonoses; and 5 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D005260:Female; D016469:Fungemia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018512:Parasitemia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014766:Viremia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology*