Table 1. Incidence rate for reported infections with pathogens possibly transmitted by food or water, Victoria, Australia, January 2000–December 2009*.
| Pathogen | Persons <65 y |
Persons >65 y |
Total reports |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. cases | Rate | LTCF residents |
Community residents |
Missing address/ excluded facility | No. cases | Rate | ||||||
| No. cases | Rate | No. cases | Rate | |||||||||
| Campylobacter sp. | 50,444 | 115.4 | 215 | 61.7 | 6,207 | 97.6 | 206 | 57,072 | 113.2 | |||
| Cryptosporidium sp. | 4,955 | 11.3 | 7 | 2.0 | 106 | 1.7 | 3 | 5,071 | 10.1 | |||
| Legionella pneumophila/ other | 457 | 1.0 | 8 | 2.3 | 293 | 4.6 | 4 | 762 | 1.5 | |||
| L. longbeacheae | 49 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 45 | 0.7 | 0 | 94 | 0.2 | |||
| Listeria monocytogenes† | 46 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.9 | 70 | 1.1 | 4 | 123 | 0.2 | |||
| Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium | 7,204 | 16.5 | 87 | 25.0 | 585 | 9.2 | 19 | 7,895 | 15.7 | |||
| S. enterica, other serotypes | 5,003 | 11.4 | 44 | 12.6 | 552 | 8.7 | 20 | 5,619 | 11.1 | |||
| Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli | 56 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 12 | 0.2 | 1 | 69 | 0.1 | |||
| Shigella sp. | 845 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 43 | 0.7 | 0 | 888 | 1.8 | |||
*Annual rate of reported infections per 100,000 persons. LTCF, long-term care facility. †Total listeriosis reports exclude 16 pregnancy-associated infections.