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There were 1,941 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 to 30 September 2000 (Tables 4 and 5).

The Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) data for weeks 35 to 38, ending 24 September 2000, are included in this issue of Commun Dis Intell (Table 6).

Table 4. Virology and serology laboratory reports by contributing laboratories for the reporting period 1 to 30 September 2000¹

State or Territory	Laboratory	This period	Total this period2
Australian Capital Territory	The Canberra Hospital	68	199
New South Wales	Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead	196	210
	New Children's Hospital, Westmead	133	151
	Repatriation General Hospital, Concord	-	-
	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown	65	88
	South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool	-	-
Queensland	Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End	12	206
	Townsville General Hospital	9	9
South Australia	Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide	587	678
Tasmania	Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston	25	-
	Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart	-	-
Victoria	Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne	-	-
	Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne	171	208
	Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield	141	159
Western Australia	PathCentre Virology, Perth	334	419
	Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth	188	157
	Western Diagnostic Pathology	12	8
Total		1,941	2,492

1. The complete list of laboratories reporting for the 12 months, January to December 2000, will appear in every report from January 2000 regardless of whether reports were received in this reporting period. Reports are not always received from all laboratories.
2. Total reports include both reports for the current period and outstanding reports to date.
- Nil reports

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Table 5. Virology and serology laboratory reports by State or Territory¹ for the reporting period 1 to 30 September 2000, and total reports for the year²

	State or Territory1								This period 2000	This period 1999	Year to date 20003	Year to date 1999
	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas	Vic	WA
Measles, mumps, rubella
Measles virus	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	16	36	151
Mumps virus	-	-	1	-	1	-	1	3	6	5	40	46
Rubella virus	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	2	33	28	251
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus	2	-	1	-	-	-	1	6	10	44	121	401
Hepatitis D virus	-	-	-	-	-	-	2*	-	2	-	6	8
Arboviruses
Ross River virus	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	62	1,098	1,430
Barmah Forest virus	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	1	3	16	121	180
Dengue not typed	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	6	167	44
Flavivirus (unspecified)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	2	39	25
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	4	8
Adenovirus type 3	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	3	14	22
Adenovirus type 40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	7	82	60
Adenovirus not typed/pending	1	12	-	-	26	1	7	25	72	81	741	814
Herpes viruses
Cytomegalovirus	3	19	-	-	36	1	24	12	95	120	850	1,005
Varicella-zoster virus	-	11	-	2	11	1	22	39	86	196	961	1,604
Epstein-Barr virus	-	-	-	1	60	-	10	20	91	284	1,459	2,350
Other DNA viruses
Papovavirus group	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	6	11
Parvovirus	-	-	-	-	3	-	8	16	27	44	243	451
Picornavirus family
Coxsackievirus B4	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	4	-
Echovirus type 7	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	33	1
Echovirus type 9	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	4	26
Rhinovirus (all types)	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	11	17	48	283	324
Enterovirus not typed/pending	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	27	29	65	617	622
Picornavirus not typed	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	2	-
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus	2	73	1	3	71	-	46	105	301	282	908	2,104
Influenza B virus	-	16	-	-	79	-	32	17	144	70	373	271
Parainfluenza virus type 1	-	-	-	-	4	-	1	1	6	6	219	40
Parainfluenza virus type 2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	2	3	6	31	104
Parainfluenza virus type 3	-	5	-	3	20	-	3	33	64	109	223	560
Respiratory syncytial virus	1	26	-	3	57	12	28	68	195	464	2,545	3,175
Other RNA viruses
HTLV-1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	2	5	9
Rotavirus	62	178	-	1	85	6	41	43	416	296	1,181	1,634
Reovirus (unspecified)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	2
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed	-	23	-	3	47	1	7	70	151	474	2,210	3,597
Chlamydia psittaci	-	-	-	-	-	4	6	-	10	4	69	62
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	-	3	-	-	18	-	25	7	53	152	447	1,144
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)	-	-	-	-	2	-	1	1	4	53	53	287
Rickettsia spp - other	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	9	11
Streptococcus group A	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	11	143	246	556
Bordetella pertussis	-	14	-	-	6	2	30	3	55	87	440	1,001
Legionella pneumophila	-	-	-	-	2	-	1	-	3	2	32	17
Legionella longbeachae	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	2	5	-	43	23
Cryptococcus species	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	10	6
Leptospira species	-	-	-	1	3	-	-	-	4	7	40	77
Treponema pallidum	-	-	-	3	48	-	-	-	51	246	547	1,060
Toxoplasma gondii	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	11	5
Total	72	392	4	22	587	28	310	526	1,941	3,440	16,603	25,579

1. State or Territory of postcode, if reported, otherwise State or Territory of reporting laboratory.
2. From January 2000 data presented are for reports with report dates in the current period. Previously reports included all data received in that period.
3. Totals comprise data from all laboratories. Cumulative figures are subject to retrospective revision, so there may be discrepancies between the number of new notifications and the increment in the cumulative figure from the previous period.
- No data received this period.
* Yet to be notified to NNDSS

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Table 6. Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network reports, weeks 35 to 38, 2000

Week number	35		36		37		38
Week ending on	3 September 2000		10 September 2000		17 September 2000		24 September 2000
Doctors reporting	64		65		64		58
Total encounters	8,186		8,097		7,849		6,768
Condition	Reports	Rate per 1,000 encounters	Reports	Rate per 1,000 encounters	Reports	Rate per 1,000 encounters	Reports	Rate per 1,000 encounters
Influenza	138	16.9	197	24.3	166	21.1	117	17.3
Chickenpox	10	1.2	10	1.2	13	1.7	6	0.9
Gastroenteritis	84	10.3	69	8.5	64	8.2	73	10.8
Gastroenteritis with stool culture	8	1.0	13	1.6	10	1.3	9	1.3
ADT immunisations	19	2.3	30	3.7	38	4.8	39	5.8

LabVISE is a sentinel reporting scheme. Currently 17 laboratories contribute data on the laboratory identification of viruses and other organisms. This number may change throughout the year. Data are collated and published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence monthly. These data should be interpreted with caution as the number and type of reports received is subject to a number of biases. For further information, see Commun Dis Intell 2000;24:10.

ASPREN currently comprises about 120 general practitioners from throughout the country, not all of whom report each week. Between 7,000 and 8,000 consultations are reported each week, with special attention to 14 conditions chosen for sentinel surveillance in 2000. Communicable Diseases Intelligence reports the consultation rates for five of these. For further information, including case definitions, see Commun Dis Intell 2000;24:7-8.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 10, October 2000.