Australia's notifiable disease status, 2007: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

Conan Liu; Stefan Stirzaker; Dougald Knuckey; Kate Robinson; Katrina Knope; Gerard Fitzsimmons; Jennifer Wall; Katrina Roper; Nicolee Martin; Anna Reynolds; Rhonda Owen; Aurysia Hii; Christiana Barry; Phil Wright; Lance Sanders; James Fielding; Annual Report Writing Group NNDSS Annual Report Writing Group

Australia's notifiable disease status, 2007: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

Conan Liu^*, Stefan Stirzaker, Dougald Knuckey, Kate Robinson, Katrina Knope, Gerard Fitzsimmons, Jennifer Wall, Katrina Roper, Nicolee Martin, Anna Reynolds, Rhonda Owen, Aurysia Hii, Christiana Barry, Phil Wright, Lance Sanders, James Fielding, Annual Report Writing Group NNDSS Annual Report Writing Group

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	89-154
Number of pages	66
Journal	Communicable diseases intelligence
Volume	33
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Jun 2009

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Liu, C., Stirzaker, S., Knuckey, D., Robinson, K., Knope, K., Fitzsimmons, G., Wall, J., Roper, K., Martin, N., Reynolds, A., Owen, R., Hii, A., Barry, C., Wright, P., Sanders, L., Fielding, J., & NNDSS Annual Report Writing Group, A. R. W. G. (2009). Australia's notifiable disease status, 2007: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. Communicable diseases intelligence, 33(2), 89-154.

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