Australia’s notifiable disease status, 2013: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System: Part 11

The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System monitors the incidence of an agreed list of communicable diseases in Australia. This report analyses notifications during 2013.

Page last updated: 16 October 2015

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the following people for their contribution to this report.

Rachel de Kluyver, Office of Health Protection

Members of the National Surveillance Committee

The National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Author details

Coordinating author: Rachel de Kluyver

Data management: Mark Trungove

Bloodborne diseases: Amy Bright, Carolyn Konrad

Gastrointestinal diseases: Ben Polkinghorne, Fiona May

Quarantinable diseases: Katrina Knope

Sexually transmissible infections: Amy Bright, Carolyn Konrad

Vaccine preventable diseases: Nicolee Martin, Cindy Toms, Rachel de Kluyver

Vectorborne diseases: Katrina Knope

Zoonoses: Katrina Knope, Fiona May

Other bacterial infections: Cindy Toms, Anna Glynn-Robinson

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With contributions from:

National organisations

Communicable Diseases Network Australia and subcommittees

Australian Childhood Immunisation Register

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme

Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme

Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network

Australian Quarantine Inspection Service

The Kirby Institute

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases

National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance Scheme

OzFoodNet Working Group

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza

State and territory health departments

Communicable Diseases Control, ACT Health, Australian Capital Territory

Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control Unit, NSW Ministry of Health, New South Wales

Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services, Northern Territory

Communicable Diseases Branch, Queensland Health, Queensland

Communicable Disease Control, South Australian Department of Health, South Australia

Communicable Diseases Prevention Unit, Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmania

Health Protection Branch, Department of Health, Victoria

Communicable Diseases Control Directorate, Department of Health, Western Australia

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Abbreviations

7vPCV 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

13vPCV 13 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

23vPPV 23 valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine

ABLV Australian bat lyssavirus

AFP acute flaccid paralysis

AGSP Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme

AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome

AMSP Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme

ANCJDR Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry

BCG bacillus Calmette–Guérin

BFV Barmah Forest virus

CDI Communicable Diseases Intelligence

CDNA Communicable Diseases Network Australia

CDWG Case Definitions Working Group

CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

CRS congenital rubella syndrome

DENV dengue virus

Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b

HIV human immunodeficiency virus

HPAIH highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans

HUS haemolytic uraemic syndrome

ILI influenza like illness

IMD invasive meningococcal disease

IPD invasive pneumococcal disease

JEV Japanese encephalitis virus

KUNV Kunjin virus

MenCCV meningococcal serogroup C vaccine

MMR measles-mumps-rubella

MMRV measles-mumps-rubella-varicella

MVEV Murray Valley encephalitis virus

NDP no data provided

NEC not elsewhere classified

NIP National Immunisation Program

NN not notifiable

NNDSS National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

NQFMP National Q Fever Management Program

NSC National Surveillance Committee

NS1 non-structural protein 1

PCR polymerase chain reaction

RRV Ross River virus

SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome

STEC Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

STI(s) sexually transmissible infections(s)

TB tuberculosis

VPD(s) vaccine preventable disease(s)

VTEC verotoxigenic Escherichia coli

VZV varicella zoster virus

WHO World Health Organization

WHOCC World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza

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