title: Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2012 and 2013.
abstract: The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System received 1,317 tuberculosis (TB) notifications in 2012 and 1,263 notifications in 2013. This represents a rate of 5.8 per 100,000 population in 2012 and 5.5 per 100,000 population in 2013 and a reversal of the upward trend in TB incidence reported since 2007. In 2012 and 2013, Australia's overseas-born population continued to represent the majority of TB notifications with an incidence rate of 19.5 per 100,000 and 18.4 per 100,000 respectively. The incidence of TB in the Australian-born Indigenous population has fluctuated over the last decade; however, it remained reasonably steady in 2012 and 2013 with an incidence rate of 4.5 per 100,000 and 4.6 per 100,000 respectively. The incidence of TB in the Australian-born non-Indigenous population has continued to remain low at 0.7 per 100,000 in 2012 and 0.8 per 100,000 in 2013. Australia continued to record only a small number of multi-drug resistant TB cases nationally (2012: n=20; 2013: n=22) of which nearly all were identified in the overseas-born population. This report demonstrates excellent and sustained control of TB in Australia and reflects Australia's commitment to reducing the global burden of TB.
authors.affiliation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases Surveillance Section, Health Emergency Management Branch, Office of Health Protection, Department of Health, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Toms
authors.affiliation: South Australian Tuberculosis Services, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stapledon
authors.affiliation: Western Australian Tuberculosis Control Program, Department of Health, Perth, Western Australia.
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Waring
authors.affiliation: Immigration Health Branch, Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Sydney, New South Wales.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Douglas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D060085:Coinfection; D018563:Disease Notification; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012307:Risk Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000266:history; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult