Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables: Laboratory Virology and Serology 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 2005.

Page last updated: 31 December 2005

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Reports by laboratory

Table 4. Virology and serology laboratory reports by state or territory* for the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005, and total reports for the year

  State or territory This period 2005 This period 2004 Year to date 2005 Year to date 2004
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Measles, mumps rubella
Measles virus
1
1
8
4
21
Mumps virus
2
2
2
1
7
2
25
5
Rubella virus
2
1
3
3
10
11
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus
3
5
12
1
21
17
38
36
Hepatitis D virus
1
4
1
6
4
12
7
Hepatitis E virus
2
2
2
11
13
Arboviruses
Ross River virus
9
21
13
3
5
51
26
333
707
Barmah Forest virus
1
21
6
28
42
158
168
Flavivirus (unspecified)
7
2
9
16
29
94
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 1
5
5
6
Adenovirus not typed/pending
74
26
100
11
1
212
344
497
793
Herpesviruses
Cytomegalovirus
1
85
4
13
192
2
20
317
215
728
614
Varicella-zoster virus
3
43
1
211
110
3
9
380
664
1,110
1,517
Epstein-Barr virus
27
27
209
187
8
101
559
687
1,540
1,855
Other DNA viruses
Poxvirus group not typed
1
1
2
2
Parvovirus
3
20
14
7
44
166
123
284
Picornavirus family
Coxsackievirus A16
2
2
5
5
Echovirus type 7
1
1
7
1
Echovirus type 11
1
1
8
4
14
Echovirus type 18
3
3
2
13
5
Echovirus type 30
1
11
12
2
31
6
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised)
15
15
9
19
15
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised)
12
12
5
18
13
Poliovirus type 3 (uncharacterised)
4
4
5
6
6
Rhinovirus (all types)
63
11
1
75
242
246
429
Enterovirus type 71 (BCR)
1
1
1
3
3
Enterovirus not typed/pending
1
57
8
7
1
2
76
46
141
133
Ortho/paramyoxviruses
Influenza A virus
136
2
75
244
57
514
284
634
355
Influenza A virus H3N2
1
1
2
2
Influenza B virus
30
18
80
16
144
93
226
130
Parainfluenza virus type 1
8
1
5
3
17
34
45
131
Parainfluenza virus type 2
6
6
1
13
5
46
11
Parainfluenza virus type 3
58
5
100
1
10
174
230
272
427
Respiratory syncytial virus
1
279
87
230
34
82
1
714
1,092
1,545
2,485
Other RNA viruses
HTLV-1
3
3
7
6
13
Rotavirus
327
1
352
5
69
754
451
992
621
Norwalk agent
68
68
294
163
491
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed
170
4
611
433
12
6
1,236
1,583
3,775
4,015
Chlamydia pneumoniae
2
2
3
6
7
Chlamydia psittaci
1
1
6
8
29
38
138
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
40
7
170
100
22
54
30
423
382
925
1,043
Mycoplasma hominis
2
2
3
4
4
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)
1
2
7
11
13
34
42
120
122
Rickettsia prowazeki
62
62
33
116
33
Orientia tsutsugamushi
27
27
21
46
22
Rickettsia - spotted fever group
80
1
81
50
178
50
Streptococcus group A
3
144
33
180
137
422
360
Brucella abortus
1
1
2
1
3
5
Brucella species
4
2
6
2
9
5
Bordetella pertussis
1
30
1
48
257
65
402
491
1,153
759
Bordetella parapertussis
2
2
2
1
Legionella pneumophila
1
1
1
3
12
17
65
Legionella longbeachae
16
2
18
21
37
59
Cryptococcus species
2
2
4
9
29
32
Leptospira species
1
5
1
7
3
23
19
Treponema pallidum
59
2
110
83
254
295
835
910
Entamoeba histolytica
2
2
4
4
12
9
Toxoplasma gondii
7
2
2
11
10
31
27
Echinococcus granulosus
3
3
5
8
12
Total
9
1,574
58
1,838
2,758
81
564
140
7,022
8,142
16,839
19,118

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

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Table 5. Virology and serology reports by laboratories for the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2005*

State or territory
Laboratory
July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 Total this period
Australian Capital Territory The Canberra Hospital
New South Wales Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead
153
148
133
434
New Children's Hospital, Westmead
167
162
131
460
Repatriation General Hospital, Concord
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown
South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool
190
207
229
626
Queensland Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End
566
738
630
1934
Townsville General Hospital
South Australia Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide
786
1,066
904
2,756
Tasmania Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston
37
22
20
79
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart
Victoria Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
89
32
36
157
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
52
82
81
215
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield
68
38
78
184
Western Australia PathCentre Virology, Perth
Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth
Western Diagnostic Pathology
26
103
48
177
Total  
2,134
2,598
2,290
7,022

* The complete list of laboratories reporting for the 12 months, January to December 2005, 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 this period.

 

This report was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 29 No 4, December 2005.

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