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There were 1,705 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 to 31 October 2000 (Tables 4 and 5).

The Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) data for weeks 39 to 42, ending 22 October 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 31 October 2000¹

State or Territory	Laboratory	This period	Total this period2
Australian Capital Territory	The Canberra Hospital	-	-
New South Wales	Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead	134	170
	New Children's Hospital, Westmead	-	-
	Repatriation General Hospital, Concord	-	-
	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown	42	44
	South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool	-	-
Queensland	Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End	551	535
	Townsville General Hospital	7	7
South Australia	Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide	566	643
Tasmania	Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston	8	12
	Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart	-	-
Victoria	Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne	-	-
	Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne	127	122
	Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield	135	149
Western Australia	PathCentre Virology, Perth	-	-
	Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth	132	125
	Western Diagnostic Pathology	3	0
Total		1,705	1,807

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 31 October 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
Mumps virus	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	4	41	50
Rubella virus	-	1	-	4	1	-	1	-	7	18	39	266
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus	-	-	1	3	-	-	1	-	5	24	126	406
Hepatitis E virus	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	2	-	4	1
Arboviruses
Ross River virus	-	1	-	33	6	-	-	-	40	77	1,138	1,487
Barmah Forest virus	-	-	-	7	1	-	-	-	8	8	129	187
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	6	8
Adenovirus type 3	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	17	23
Adenovirus type 6	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	2	-	2	-
Adenovirus type 7	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	1	5	5
Adenovirus not typed/pending	2	12	-	2	29	-	6	8	59	103	803	910
Herpes viruses
Cytomegalovirus	1	13	5	72	37	2	30	5	165	80	1,029	1,064
Varicella-zoster virus	2	3	3	42	10	1	14	1	76	156	1,039	1,741
Epstein-Barr virus	-	2	2	55	73	-	12	1	145	191	1,609	2,519
Other DNA viruses
Parvovirus	-	1	-	38	1	-	4	-	44	31	288	477
Picornavirus family
Echovirus type 11	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	16	7	149
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised)	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	5	12	22
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4	5	13
Poliovirus type 3 (uncharacterised)	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	7	8
Rhinovirus (all types)	-	8	-	1	-	-	-	-	9	56	292	377
Enterovirus not typed/pending	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	-	5	48	663	669
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus	3	13	-	7	118	-	14	30	185	64	1,121	2,146
Influenza B virus	-	11	-	4	28	1	8	2	54	22	456	292
Parainfluenza virus type 1	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	2	-	222	40
Parainfluenza virus type 2	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	1	3	2	34	100
Parainfluenza virus type 3	-	2	-	3	9	-	4	48	66	135	294	693
Respiratory syncytial virus	-	7	-	2	13	1	7	8	38	191	2,586	3,329
Other RNA viruses
Rotavirus	-	48	-	-	65	-	31	22	166	184	1,349	1,817
Norwalk agent	-	-	-	-	2	-	32	-	34	3	51	54
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed	1	38	7	94	75	2	8	7	232	291	2,446	3,812
Chlamydia psittaci	1	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	9	6	76	68
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	-	-	-	24	11	-	20	1	56	135	502	1,267
Mycoplasma hominis	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	7	5
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)	-	2	-	7	1	-	3	-	13	26	67	310
Rickettsia prowazeki	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	2	-
Streptococcus group A	-	2	4	30	-	-	11	-	47	58	294	584
Yersinia enterocolitica	-	2	-	2	-	-	-	-	4	1	13	13
Bordetella pertussis	-	11	-	2	35	-	29	-	77	85	520	1,077
Legionella pneumophila	-	-	-	-	1	-	4	-	5	1	37	18
Legionella longbeachae	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	2	6	45	29
Legionella species	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	3	-	5	-
Cryptococcus species	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	2	1	13	7
Leptospira species	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	3	6	45	83
Treponema pallidum	-	1	40	40	39	-	-	-	120	118	673	1,115
Entamoeba histolytica	-	-	-	1	-	-	2	-	3	2	14	5
Toxoplasma gondii	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	2	1	13	6
Total	10	186	62	475	568	12	258	135	1,705	2,164	18,146	27,252

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.

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Table 6. Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network reports, weeks 39 to 42, 2000

Week number	39		40		41		42
Week ending on	1 October 2000		8 October 2000		15 October 2000		22 October 2000
Doctors reporting	62		62		54		52
Total encounters	7,698		6,778		6,038		6,421
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	93	12.1	57	8.4	54	8.9	31	4.8
Chickenpox	10	1.3	5	0.7	6	1.0	13	2.0
Gastroenteritis	76	9.9	49	7.2	47	7.8	65	10.1
Gastroenteritis with stool culture	12	1.6	12	1.8	5	0.8	12	1.9
ADT immunisations	36	4.7	40	5.9	28	4.6	21	3.3

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.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 11, November 2000.