Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2005

Authors

  • Paul Roche Surveillance Policy and Systems Section, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
  • Ivan Bastian Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, South Australia
  • Vicki Krause Centre for Disease Control, Department of Health and Community Services, Darwin, Northern Territory
  • Ral Antic Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, South Australia
  • Lynne Brown TB Control, Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Amanda Christiansen NSW TB Program, Communicable Diseases Branch, NSW Health Department, Sydney, New South Wales
  • Christina Drummond Tuberculosis Services, Perth Chest Clinic, Perth, Western Australia
  • Sandra Gebbie Communicable Disease and Health Risk Policy Section, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
  • Mark Hurwitz Thoracic Medicine, The Canberra Hospital, Garran, Australian Capital Territory
  • Anastasios Konstantinos Queensland TB Control Centre, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Queensland
  • Avner Misrachi Communicable Disease Prevention Unit, Department of Health and Human Services, Hobart, Tasmania.
  • National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2007.31.2

Keywords:

disease surveillance, tuberculosis

Abstract

The National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System received 1,072 tuberculosis (TB) notifications in 2005, of which 1,022 were new cases and 50 were relapses. The incidence of TB in Australia was 5.3 cases per 100,000 population in 2005 and has remained at a stable rate since 1985. The high-incidence groups remain people born overseas and Indigenous Australians at 20.6 and 5.9 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. By contrast, the incidence of TB in the non-Indigenous Australian-born population was 0.8 cases per 100,000 population. Rates in the Australian-born, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous have been declining since 1991, while rates in the overseas-born have been increasing. TB control in Australia relies on pre-migration screening and provision of free and effective treatment. Commun Dis Intell 2007;31:71–80.

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Published

01/03/07

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Roche, Paul, Ivan Bastian, Vicki Krause, Ral Antic, Lynne Brown, Amanda Christiansen, Christina Drummond, et al. 2007. “ Tuberculosis Notifications in Australia, 2005”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 31 (March):71-80. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2007.31.2.

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Vol. 31 (2007)

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