Communicable disease surveillance tables: Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme (LabVISE)

The Laboratory Serology and Virology Reporting Scheme collects laboratory reports on a set of communicable disease organisms in Australia. The reports are on a voluntary basis and these data should be interpreted with caution. This page contains data for the period 1 July to 30 September 2004.

Page last updated: 28 January 2005

There were 7,808 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 July to 30 September 2004 (Tables 4 and 5).

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Table 4. Virology and serology laboratory reports by state and territory1 for the reporting period, 1 July to 30 September 2004, and total reports for the year2

Disease ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA This period 2004 This period 2003 Year to date 2004 Year to date 2003
Measles, mumps rubella
Measles virus 0 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 8 10 21 50
Mumps virus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2   5 7
Rubella virus 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 7 11 19
Hepatitis virus
Hepatitis A virus 0 1 0 7 1 0 2 6 17 28 36 64
Hepatitis D virus 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 7 6 15
Hepatitis E virus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2   13  
Arboviruses
Ross River virus 0 0 1 9 4 0 0 10 24 71 705 1,183
Barmah Forest virus 0 2 0 32 5 0 0 3 42 34 168 375
Dengue type 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2
Dengue not typed 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 6 5 7 27
Flavivirus (unspecified) 0 0 0 13 0 0 2 0 15 4 93 108
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 8 16 28
Adenovirus not typed/pending 1 92 2 22 117 0 13 60 307 299 753 754
Herpes viruses
Herpes virus type 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 4 5
Cytomegalovirus 3 87 0 29 68 4 13 0 204 194 603 705
Varicella-zoster virus 1 35 6 283 122 3 18 182 650 469 1,502 1,264
Epstein-Barr virus 0 22 3 177 440 0 11 31 684 469 1,852 1,308
Other DNA viruses
Molluscum contagiosum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 3 11
Contagious pustular dermatitis (Orf virus) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 3
Parvovirus 0 3 0 40 15 0 19 88 165 62 283 168
Picornavirus
Echovirus type 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 11
Echovirus type 11 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 14 4
Echovirus type 30 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2   6 1
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised) 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 6 15 32
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised) 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 13 9
Poliovirus type 3 (uncharacterised) 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 6 4
Rhinovirus (all types) 0 79 0 0 22 0 1 106 208 138 395 389
Enterovirus type 71 (BCR) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1   3  
Enterovirus not typed/pending 1 5 2 3 4 0 1 20 36 37 123 126
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus 0 108 0 33 55 1 7 37 241 1,542 312 1,746
Influenza B virus 0 7 0 6 33 0 0 36 82 38 119 97
Parainfluenza virus type 1 0 4 0 0 17 0 0 12 33 9 130 35
Parainfluenza virus type 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 5 17 11 66
Parainfluenza virus type 3 0 13 2 1 85 0 2 109 212 208 409 405
Respiratory syncytial virus 3 338 2 80 316 46 60 197 1,042 900 2,435 1,579
Other RNA viruses
HTLV-1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 6 2 12 10
Rotavirus 0 124 8 1 64 75 36 62 370 433 539 576
Calicivirus 0 3 12 0 0 0 0 214 229 23 256 103
Norwalk agent 0 2 0 0 0 4 99 0 105 87 294 130
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed 9 188 5 539 392 10 7 400 1,550 1,082 3,977 3,400
Chlamydia pneumoniae 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 6 11
Chlamydia psittaci 0 1 0 0 0 0 26 1 28 45 136 87
Chlamydia species 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 1
Mycoplasma pneumoniae 0 13 3 134 121 9 82 13 375 471 1,035 904
Mycoplasma hominis 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 4 4 9
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) 0 0 2 6 25 0 6 1 40 48 120 141
Rickettsia prowazeki 0 0 0 0 29 0 0 1 30   30 2
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi 0 0 0 0 18 0 1 1 20 1 21 2
Rickettsia- spotted fever group 0 0 0 0 43 1 0 0 44   44  
Streptococcus group A 0 2 1 106 0 0 28 0 137 91 360 362
Yersinia enterocolitica 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 5 9
Brucella abortus 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1   5 2
Brucella species 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 5
Bordetella pertussis 0 15 0 56 170 2 46 175 464 108 732 364
Legionella pneumophila 0 1 0 0 1 0 9 1 12 60 65 113
Legionella longbeachae 0 0 0 0 4 0 6 9 19 26 57 54
Legionella species 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 6 14 10
Cryptococcus species 0 2 0 1 6 0 0 0 9 8 32 20
Leptospira species 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 10 19 21
Borrelia burgdorferi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1   1  
Treponema pallidum 0 39 0 154 96 0 0 4 293 284 908 958
Entamoeba histolytica 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 4 4 9 10
Toxoplasma gondii 0 1 0 0 4 0 3 1 9 11 26 32
Echinococcus granulosus 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 3 10 14
Total 18 1,228 52 1,742 2,287 155 513 1,813 7,808 7,396 18,804 17,950

1. State or territory of postcode, if reported, otherwise state or territory of reporting laboratory.
 2. Data presented are for reports with report dates in the current period.
 - No data received this period.

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Table 5. Virology and serology reports by laboratory for the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2004*
State or Territory Laboratory July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 Total this period
Australian Capital Territory The Canberra Hospital - - - -
New South Wales Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead 151 125 130 406
New Children's Hospital, Westmead 102 116 100 318
Repatriation General Hospital, Concord - - - -
Royal Prince Alfred Hospita, Camperdown 42 33 31 106
South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool 136 129 99 364
Queensland Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End 733 582 502 1,817
Townsville General Hospital - - - -
South Australia Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide 749 742 785 2,276
Tasmania Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston 45 60 44 149
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart - - - -
Victoria Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne 50 18 - 68
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne 102 35 23 160
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield 96 127 54 277
Western Australia PathCentre Virology, Perth 543 567 720 1,830
Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth - - - -
Western Diagnostic Pathology - - 37 37
Total   2,749 2,534 2,525 7,808

* The complete list of laboratories reporting for the 12 months, January to December 2004, will appear in every report regardless of whether reports were received in this reporting period. Reports are not always received from all laboratories.
 - No data received during this period.

This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 28 No 4, December 2004.

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