National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System surveillance report: Sexually transmissible infections in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2015.39.52Keywords:
communicable disease surveillance, sexually transmissible infections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthAbstract
In 2014, the notification rates for chlamydia, infectious syphilis and gonococcal infections in the Indigenous population were 3, 4 and 18 times higher respectively than the non-Indigenous population.
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