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There were 1,247 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 to 31 December 2000 (Tables 4 and 5).

The Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) data for weeks 48 to 52, ending 31 December 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 December 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	71	72
	New Children's Hospital, Westmead	36	81
	Repatriation General Hospital, Concord	-	-
	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown	28	21
	South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool	-	152
Queensland	Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End	330	973
	Townsville General Hospital	15	20
South Australia	Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide	497	1,042
Tasmania	Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston	12	11
	Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart	-	-
Victoria	Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne	-	-
	Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne	89	117
	Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield	110	209
Western Australia	PathCentre Virology, Perth	-	-
	Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth	32	38
	Western Diagnostic Pathology	27	-
Total		1,247	2,736

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

Top of pageTable 5. Virology and serology laboratory reports by State or Territory¹

	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	-	-	-	2	3	44	172
Rubella virus	-	2	-	1	2	-	-	-	5	5	47	145
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	3	24	137	375
Hepatitis D virus	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	9	8
Arboviruses
Ross River virus	-	1	8	11	35	-	-	3	58	129	1,250	1,423
Barmah Forest virus	-	1	1	10	2	-	-	-	14	22	158	180
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus not typed/pending	1	8	-	6	44	-	9	5	73	122	982	1,128
Herpes viruses
Cytomegalovirus	-	14	-	6	46	-	16	4	86	145	1,262	1,216
Varicella-zoster virus	2	8	2	65	22	-	21	2	122	174	1,296	1,658
Epstein-Barr virus	-	3	3	32	51	-	14	14	117	205	1,852	2,194
Other DNA viruses
Parvovirus	-	1	2	20	12	-	1	-	36	25	350	437
Picornavirus family
Coxsackievirus B1	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	3	-	4	1
Coxsackievirus B4	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	4	2	15	3
Coxsackievirus B5	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	5	7
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised)	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	18	26
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	8	16
Rhinovirus (all types)	2	21	-	-	4	-	-	-	27	51	376	501
Enterovirus type 71 (BCR)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4	2	15
Enterovirus not typed/pending	-	1	-	4	1	3	19	-	28	48	711	752
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus	2	4	-	-	26	-	2	3	37	70	1,366	1,898
Influenza B virus	2	-	-	1	12	-	-	1	16	4	550	279
Parainfluenza virus type 1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	6	230	44
Parainfluenza virus type 3	-	14	-	10	19	-	1	8	52	62	459	803
Respiratory syncytial virus	-	5	-	7	16	-	-	1	29	77	2,689	3,054
Other RNA viruses
Rotavirus	-	8	-	-	52	4	14	8	86	167	1,720	2,244
Norwalk agent	-	-	-	-	1	-	16	-	17	4	75	59
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed	4	31	7	48	55	1	8	1	155	322	2,855	3,289
Chlamydia psittaci	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	7	5	100	78
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	-	1	1	17	17	2	21	5	64	92	646	1,125
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)	-	-	-	7	-	-	3	-	10	14	90	221
Rickettsia - Spotted fever group	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	4	-	6	1
Streptococcus group A	-	2	3	11	-	-	2	-	18	47	348	368
Yersinia enterocolitica	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	14	10
Bordetella pertussis	-	8	-	11	27	-	30	-	76	76	665	845
Legionella pneumophila	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	3	-	42	17
Legionella longbeachae	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	12	53	51
Cryptococcus species	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	3	-	18	9
Leptospira species	-	-	-	5	2	-	-	-	7	4	59	55
Treponema pallidum	-	2	14	16	44	-	-	-	76	89	855	774
Total	14	141	41	290	498	14	194	55	1,247	2,013	21,366	25,481

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.

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.

Top of pageTable 6. Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network reports, weeks 48 to 52, 2000*

Week number	48		49		50		51
Week ending on	3 December 2000		10 December 2000		17 December 2000		24 December 2000
Doctors reporting	56		52		56		52
Total encounters	6,484		6,709		6,877		6,274
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	13	2.0	9	1.3	18	2.6	4	0.6
Chickenpox	16	2.5	11	1.6	9	1.3	5	0.8
Gastroenteritis	56	8.6	55	8.2	61	8.9	72	11.5
Gastroenteritis with stool culture	7	1. 1	9	1.3	11	1.6	7	1.1
ADT immunisations	28	4.3	25	3.7	26	3.8	23	3.7

* Editorial note: For week 52 ending 31 December 2000 there were 4 reports of influenza and 7 of chickenpox. The other conditions are no longer reported.

This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 1, January 2001.