Communicable disease surveillance tables: Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme (LabVISE)

The Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme collects laboratory reports on a set of communicable disease organisms in Australia. The reports are on a voluntary basis and these data should be interpreted with caution. This page contains data for the period 1 July to 30 September 2004.

Page last updated: 28 January 2005

There were 7,808 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 July to 30 September 2004 (Tables 4 and 5).

Go to Table 4 - LabVISE reports or Table 5 - LabVISE reports by laboratory

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Table 4. Virology and serology laboratory reports by state and territory¹ for the reporting period, 1 July to 30 September 2004, and total reports for the year²

Disease	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA	This period 2004	This period 2003	Year to date 2004	Year to date 2003
Measles, mumps rubella
Measles virus	0	1	0	1	2	0	3	1	8	10	21	50
Mumps virus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2		5	7
Rubella virus	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	7	11	19
Hepatitis virus
Hepatitis A virus	0	1	0	7	1	0	2	6	17	28	36	64
Hepatitis D virus	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	7	6	15
Hepatitis E virus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2		13
Arboviruses
Ross River virus	0	0	1	9	4	0	0	10	24	71	705	1,183
Barmah Forest virus	0	2	0	32	5	0	0	3	42	34	168	375
Dengue type 2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	2
Dengue not typed	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	6	5	7	27
Flavivirus (unspecified)	0	0	0	13	0	0	2	0	15	4	93	108
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	11	8	16	28
Adenovirus not typed/pending	1	92	2	22	117	0	13	60	307	299	753	754
Herpes viruses
Herpes virus type 6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	4	5
Cytomegalovirus	3	87	0	29	68	4	13	0	204	194	603	705
Varicella-zoster virus	1	35	6	283	122	3	18	182	650	469	1,502	1,264
Epstein-Barr virus	0	22	3	177	440	0	11	31	684	469	1,852	1,308
Other DNA viruses
Molluscum contagiosum	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	3	11
Contagious pustular dermatitis (Orf virus)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	3
Parvovirus	0	3	0	40	15	0	19	88	165	62	283	168
Picornavirus
Echovirus type 9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	11
Echovirus type 11	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	2	14	4
Echovirus type 30	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2		6	1
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised)	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	6	15	32
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised)	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	13	9
Poliovirus type 3 (uncharacterised)	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	6	4
Rhinovirus (all types)	0	79	0	0	22	0	1	106	208	138	395	389
Enterovirus type 71 (BCR)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		3
Enterovirus not typed/pending	1	5	2	3	4	0	1	20	36	37	123	126
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus	0	108	0	33	55	1	7	37	241	1,542	312	1,746
Influenza B virus	0	7	0	6	33	0	0	36	82	38	119	97
Parainfluenza virus type 1	0	4	0	0	17	0	0	12	33	9	130	35
Parainfluenza virus type 2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	5	17	11	66
Parainfluenza virus type 3	0	13	2	1	85	0	2	109	212	208	409	405
Respiratory syncytial virus	3	338	2	80	316	46	60	197	1,042	900	2,435	1,579
Other RNA viruses
HTLV-1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	6	2	12	10
Rotavirus	0	124	8	1	64	75	36	62	370	433	539	576
Calicivirus	0	3	12	0	0	0	0	214	229	23	256	103
Norwalk agent	0	2	0	0	0	4	99	0	105	87	294	130
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed	9	188	5	539	392	10	7	400	1,550	1,082	3,977	3,400
Chlamydia pneumoniae	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	6	11
Chlamydia psittaci	0	1	0	0	0	0	26	1	28	45	136	87
Chlamydia species	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	3	1
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	0	13	3	134	121	9	82	13	375	471	1,035	904
Mycoplasma hominis	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	4	4	9
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)	0	0	2	6	25	0	6	1	40	48	120	141
Rickettsia prowazeki	0	0	0	0	29	0	0	1	30		30	2
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi	0	0	0	0	18	0	1	1	20	1	21	2
Rickettsia- spotted fever group	0	0	0	0	43	1	0	0	44		44
Streptococcus group A	0	2	1	106	0	0	28	0	137	91	360	362
Yersinia enterocolitica	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	5	9
Brucella abortus	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		5	2
Brucella species	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	3	5	5
Bordetella pertussis	0	15	0	56	170	2	46	175	464	108	732	364
Legionella pneumophila	0	1	0	0	1	0	9	1	12	60	65	113
Legionella longbeachae	0	0	0	0	4	0	6	9	19	26	57	54
Legionella species	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	6	14	10
Cryptococcus species	0	2	0	1	6	0	0	0	9	8	32	20
Leptospira species	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	10	19	21
Borrelia burgdorferi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1		1
Treponema pallidum	0	39	0	154	96	0	0	4	293	284	908	958
Entamoeba histolytica	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	4	4	9	10
Toxoplasma gondii	0	1	0	0	4	0	3	1	9	11	26	32
Echinococcus granulosus	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	3	3	10	14
Total	18	1,228	52	1,742	2,287	155	513	1,813	7,808	7,396	18,804	17,950

1. State or territory of postcode, if reported, otherwise state or territory of reporting laboratory.
2. Data presented are for reports with report dates in the current period.
- No data received this period.

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Table 5. Virology and serology reports by laboratory for the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2004*

State or Territory	Laboratory	July 2004	August 2004	September 2004	Total this period
Australian Capital Territory	The Canberra Hospital	-	-	-	-
New South Wales	Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead	151	125	130	406
	New Children's Hospital, Westmead	102	116	100	318
	Repatriation General Hospital, Concord	-	-	-	-
	Royal Prince Alfred Hospita, Camperdown	42	33	31	106
	South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool	136	129	99	364
Queensland	Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End	733	582	502	1,817
Queensland	Townsville General Hospital	-	-	-	-
South Australia	Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide	749	742	785	2,276
Tasmania	Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston	45	60	44	149
Tasmania	Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart	-	-	-	-
Victoria	Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne	50	18	-	68
	Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne	102	35	23	160
	Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield	96	127	54	277
Western Australia	PathCentre Virology, Perth	543	567	720	1,830
	Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth	-	-	-	-
	Western Diagnostic Pathology	-	-	37	37
Total		2,749	2,534	2,525	7,808