Table 1: Number of Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme gonococcal isolates tested as a proportion of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System gonorrhoea notifications, Australia, 2016, by state or territory Number of isolates tested/Number of cases Number of Number of notified isolates cases State or territory tested notified % Australian Capital 112 201 56 Territory 2268 7009 32 New South Wales 218 1784 12 Northern Territory 865 4023 22 Queensland 349 1114 31 South Australia 28 82 34 Tasmania 1734 5469 32 Victoria 804 3362 24 Western Australia 6,378 23,044 28 Australia Source of isolates There were 5,078 isolates from men (80%) and 1,282 (20%) from women (Table 2). There were 7 isolates were from patients of unknown gender. The proportion of gonococcal isolates from males and females tested by the AGSP has remained stable over recent years (2009-14); ranging between 18 and 20% for women and 80 and 83% for men. The infected site was reported as or not specified for 56 isolates from males and 18 isolates from 'other’ females (Table 2). Isolates from urine samples were regarded as genital tract isolates. Table 2: Gonococcal isolates, Australia, 2016, by sex, site and jurisdiction tested. Sex Site NSW NT QLD SA VIC WA ACT TAS AUSTRALIA Male Genital 1088 116 411 146 829 403 47 10 3050 Rectal 492 3 155 61 401 82 39 7 1240 Pharynx 321 0 65 36 214 53 15 7 711 DGI* 2 3 4 1 3 8 0 0 21 56 Other/NS** 11 2 12 4 12 10 3 2 Total 1914 124 647 248 1459 556 104 26 5078
Table 1: Number of Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme gonococcal isolates tested as a proportion of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System gonorrhoea notifications, Australia, 2016, by state or territory State or territory Number of isolates tested Number of cases notified Number of isolates tested/Number of cases notified % Australian Capital Territory 112 201 56 New South Wales 2268 7009 32 Northern Territory 218 1784 12 Queensland 865 4023 22 South Australia 349 1114 31 Tasmania 28 82 34 Victoria 1734 5469 32 Western Australia 804 3362 24 Australia 6,378 23,044 28 Source of isolates There were 5,078 isolates from men (80%) and 1,282 (20%) from women (Table 2). There were 7 isolates were from patients of unknown gender. The proportion of gonococcal isolates from males and females tested by the AGSP has remained stable over recent years (2009-14); ranging between 18 and 20% for women and 80 and 83% for men. The infected site was reported as 'other’ or not specified for 56 isolates from males and 18 isolates from females (Table 2). Isolates from urine samples were regarded as genital tract isolates. Table 2: Gonococcal isolates, Australia, 2016, by sex, site and jurisdiction tested. Sex Site NSW NT QLD SA VIC WA ACT TAS AUSTRALIA Male Genital 1088 116 411 146 829 403 47 10 3050 Rectal 492 3 155 61 401 82 39 7 1240 Pharynx 321 0 65 36 214 53 15 7 711 DGI* 2 3 4 1 3 8 0 0 21 Other/NS** 11 2 12 4 12 10 3 2 56 Total 1914 124 647 248 1459 556 104 26 5078