摘要：Since the implementation of the National Mycobacterial Surveillance System (NMSS) in 1991, theepidemiology and trends of tuberculosis in Australia have been described in a series of annualreports. This article presents an analysis of the data for tuberculosis notifications for 1996. A t otalof 1,037 notifications of tuberculosis were received for the year 1996, and the crude rates of newand relapsed disease were reported at 5.37 per 100,000 and 0.29 per 100,000 respectively. Rates oftuberculosis have remained stable over the last decade and the majority of notifications andhighest rates of disease continue to occur in the overseas-born population
