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
Australia's notifiable disease status, 2007: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. [Journal Article]
Commun Dis Intell 2009 Jun; 33(2):89-154.
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.
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