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Australia's notifiable disease status, 2013: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

Communicable diseases intelligence, 2015-09, Vol.39 (3), p.E387-E478

ISSN: 1447-4514 ;EISSN: 1445-4866 ;PMID: 26620352

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  • Title:
    Australia's notifiable disease status, 2013: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  • Author: NNDSS Annual Report Writing Group
  • Subjects: Annual Reports as Topic ; Australia - epidemiology ; Communicable Disease Control - methods ; Communicable Diseases - epidemiology ; Disease Notification ; Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Population Surveillance ; Retrospective Studies
  • Is Part Of: Communicable diseases intelligence, 2015-09, Vol.39 (3), p.E387-E478
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: Australia
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1447-4514
    EISSN: 1445-4866
    PMID: 26620352
  • Source: Geneva Foundation Free Medical Journals at publisher websites
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