title: Australia's notifiable disease status, 2013: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
abstract: In 2013, 65 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 224,434 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, a decrease of 8% on the number of notifications in 2012. In 2013, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (100,949 notifications, 45% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (59,630 notifications, 26.6% of total notifications), and gastrointestinal diseases (32,536 notifications, 14.5% of total notifications). There were 17,919 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 10,831 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,932 notifications of other bacterial infections; 634 notifications of zoonoses and 3 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
mesh_terms: D000847:Annual Reports as Topic; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018563:Disease Notification; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012189:Retrospective Studies