| Literature DB >> 16639808 |
Keflemariam Yohannes1, Paul W Roche, April Roberts, Conan Liu, Simon M Firestone, Mark Bartlett, Iain East, Brynley P Hull, Martyn D Kirk, Glenda L Lawrence, Ann McDonald, Peter B McIntyre, Robert I Menzies, Helen E Quinn, Claire Vadjic.
Abstract
In 2004, 60 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and Territories reported a total of 110,929 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS): an increase of 4 per cent on the number of notifications in 2003. In 2004, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (46,762 cases; 42% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (25,247 cases; 23% of total notifications) and bloodborne diseases (19,191 cases; 17% of total notifications). There were 13,206 notifications of vaccine preventable diseases, 6,000 notifications of vectorborne diseases, 1,799 notifications of other bacterial infections (includes, legionellosis, leprosy, meningococcal infections and tuberculosis) and 877 notifications of zoonotic diseases.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16639808
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Commun Dis Intell Q Rep ISSN： 1447-4514