Communicable Diseases Surveillance - LabVISE and ASPREN Tables

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 1, January 2001 contains an analysis and tables of monthly notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

Page last updated: 19 March 2001

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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.

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