Australia's notifiable disease status, 2008: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

Autor: Leah, Newman, Stefan, Stirzaker, Dougald, Knuckey, Kate, Robinson, Jennie, Hood, Katrina, Knope, Gerard, Fitzsimmons, Susan, Barker, Nicolee, Martin, Samantha, Siripol, Indra, Gajanayake, Marlena, Kaczmarek, Ian, Barr, Aurysia, Hii, Ruth, Foxwell, Rhonda, Owen, Conan, Liu, Phil, Wright, Lance, Sanders, Christina, Barry, Jolene, Ormond
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report. 34(3)
ISSN: 1447-4514
Popis: In 2008, 65 communicable diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 160,508 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 9% on the number of notifications in 2007. In 2008, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (69,459 notifications, 43% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (34,225 notifications, 21% of total notifications) and gastrointestinal diseases (27,308 notifications, 17% of total notifications). There were 18,207 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 8,876 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,796 notifications of other bacterial infections; 633 notifications of zoonoses and 4 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
Databáze: OpenAIRE