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There were 1,398 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 to 30 November 2000 (Tables 4 and 5).

The Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) data for weeks 43 to 47, ending 26 November 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 November 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	109	173
	New Children's Hospital, Westmead	61	142
	Repatriation General Hospital, Concord	-	-
	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown	51	45
	South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool	-	-
Queensland	Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End	331	354
	Townsville General Hospital	7	8
South Australia	Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide	533	593
Tasmania	Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston	8	8
	Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart	-	-
Victoria	Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne	19	164
	Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne	67	73
	Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield	138	211
Western Australia	PathCentre Virology, Perth	-	-
	Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth	74	53
	Western Diagnostic Pathology	-	27
Total		1,398	1,851

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 3 November 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	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	1	42	169
Rubella virus	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	2	11	41	140
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus	-	-	1	5	1	-	-	-	7	33	133	351
Hepatitis D virus	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	2	-	8	7
Arboviruses
Ross River virus	-	-	3	10	27	-	2	-	42	55	1,181	1,294
Barmah Forest virus	-	1	-	14	-	-	-	-	15	17	144	158
Flavivirus (unspecified)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	40	22
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 3	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	3	18	26
Adenovirus type 5	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	8	6
Adenovirus not typed/pending	1	13	-	-	27	1	7	6	59	129	889	1,006
Herpes viruses
Cytomegalovirus	1	19	-	10	50	7	25	4	117	156	1,159	1,071
Varicella-zoster virus	1	3	-	4	14	2	39	-	63	167	1,107	1,484
Epstein-Barr virus	-	2	-	26	77	-	11	-	116	286	1,728	1,989
Other DNA viruses
Parvovirus	-	-	-	20	5	-	1	-	26	34	314	412
Picornavirus family
Coxsackievirus A9	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	10	9
Coxsackievirus B4	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	4	-	11	1
Echovirus type 30	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	2	-	117	10
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised)	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	4	15	26
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	7	14
Poliovirus type 3 (uncharacterised)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	8	8
Rhinovirus (all types)	-	30	-	-	-	-	3	-	33	74	340	450
Enterovirus type 71 (BCR)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	1	11
Enterovirus not typed/pending	-	-	-	1	-	1	7	-	9	56	681	704
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus	5	2	-	4	54	-	2	8	76	69	1,317	1,828
Influenza B virus	2	7	-	3	17	-	1	5	36	9	522	275
Parainfluenza virus type 1	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	6	2	229	38
Parainfluenza virus type 2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	9	35	107
Parainfluenza virus type 3	-	10	-	6	14	-	1	27	62	115	388	741
Respiratory syncytial virus	-	19	-	2	8	-	2	2	35	129	2,645	2,977
Other RNA viruses
Rotavirus	1	35	-	-	70	2	12	14	138	270	1,553	2,077
Norwalk agent	-	-	-	-	3	-	1	-	4	1	57	55
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed	5	53	13	80	63	1	5	8	228	338	2,684	2,967
Chlamydia psittaci	-	-	-	-	-	2	14	-	16	5	93	73
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	-	9	2	24	23	1	11	-	71	128	577	1,033
Mycoplasma hominis	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	8	5
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)	-	1	-	7	1	-	4	-	13	15	80	207
Rickettsia australis	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	2	2
Rickettsia - Spotted fever group	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	2	1
Streptococcus group A	-	1	3	23	-	-	8	-	35	58	329	321
Bordetella pertussis	-	7	-	8	24	-	21	-	60	135	580	769
Legionella pneumophila	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	38	17
Legionella longbeachae	-	-	-	-	6	-	1	-	7	12	52	39
Cryptococcus species	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	2	15	9
Leptospira species	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	4	10	51	51
Treponema pallidum	-	5	19	25	37	-	-	-	86	130	762	685
Entamoeba histolytica	-	-	-	1	-	-	2	-	3	1	17	6
Toxoplasma gondii	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	2	15	8
Total	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1,398	2,470	20,053	23,659

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 43 to 47, 2000

Week number	43		44		45		46		47
Week ending on	29 October 2000		5 November 2000		12 November 2000		19 November 2000		26 November 2000
Doctors reporting	61		58		59		58		60
Total encounters	7,642		7,373		7,119		6,908		7,180
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	Reports	Rate per 1,000 encounters
Influenza	46	6.0	51	6.9	24	3.4	21	3.0	14	1.9
Chickenpox	8	1.0	6	0.8	10	1.4	12	1.7	17	2.4
Gastroenteritis	67	8.8	69	9.4	56	7.9	58	8.4	66	9.2
Gastroenteritis with stool culture	12	1.6	10	1.4	7	1.0	7	1.0	7	1.0
ADT immunisations	29	3.8	30	4.1	20	2.8	31	4.5	28	3.9

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 12, December 2000.