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Table 5. Virology and serology laboratory reports by laboratories for the reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2002¹

	Laboratory	October 2002	November 2002	December 2002	Total this period
Australian Capital Territory	The Canberra Hospital	10	3	7	20
New South Wales	Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead	103	101	34	238
	New Children's Hospital, Westmead	89	45	36	170
	Repatriation General Hospital, Concord	-	-	-	-
	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown	-	3	6	9
	South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool	133	90	21	244
Queensland	Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End	280	416	392	1,088
	Townsville General Hospital	-	-	-	-
South Australia	Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide	655	555	416	1,626
Tasmania	Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston	10	8	14	32
	Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart	-	-	-	-
Victoria	Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne	20	-	-	20
	Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne	44	-	21	65
	Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield	100	61	59	220
Western Australia	PathCentre Virology, Perth	446	380	335	1,161
	Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth	146	-	-	146
	Western Diagnostic Pathology	43	25	29	97
Total		2,079	1,687	1,370	5,136

1. The complete list of laboratories reporting for the 12 months, January to December 2003, will appear in every report regardless of whether reports were received in this reporting period. Reports are not always received from all laboratories.
Nil reports

LabVISE is a sentinel reporting scheme. Currently 16 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 quarterly. 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 2002;26:57.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 1, March 2003.