Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables - LabVise, ASPREN

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 10, October 2000 contains an analysis and tables of monthly notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

Page last updated: 10 November 2000

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There were 1,941 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 to 30 September 2000 (Tables 4 and 5).

The Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) data for weeks 35 to 38, ending 24 September 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 30 September 20001

State or Territory
Laboratory
This period Total this period2
Australian Capital Territory The Canberra Hospital
68
199
New South Wales Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead
196
210
New Children's Hospital, Westmead
133
151
Repatriation General Hospital, Concord
-
-
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown
65
88
South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool
-
-
Queensland Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End
12
206
Townsville General Hospital
9
9
South Australia Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide
587
678
Tasmania Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston
25
-
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart
-
-
Victoria Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
-
-
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
171
208
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield
141
159
Western Australia PathCentre Virology, Perth
334
419
Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth
188
157
Western Diagnostic Pathology
12
8
Total  
1,941
2,492


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

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Table 5. Virology and serology laboratory reports by State or Territory1 for the reporting period 1 to 30 September 2000, and total reports for the year2

  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
16
36
151
Mumps virus
-
-
1
-
1
-
1
3
6
5
40
46
Rubella virus
-
1
-
-
1
-
-
-
2
33
28
251
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus
2
-
1
-
-
-
1
6
10
44
121
401
Hepatitis D virus
-
-
-
-
-
-
2*
-
2
-
6
8
Arboviruses
Ross River virus
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
2
62
1,098
1,430
Barmah Forest virus
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
1
3
16
121
180
Dengue not typed
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
6
167
44
Flavivirus (unspecified)
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
2
39
25
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
1
4
8
Adenovirus type 3
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
1
3
14
22
Adenovirus type 40
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
6
7
82
60
Adenovirus not typed/pending
1
12
-
-
26
1
7
25
72
81
741
814
Herpes viruses
Cytomegalovirus
3
19
-
-
36
1
24
12
95
120
850
1,005
Varicella-zoster virus
-
11
-
2
11
1
22
39
86
196
961
1,604
Epstein-Barr virus
-
-
-
1
60
-
10
20
91
284
1,459
2,350
Other DNA viruses
Papovavirus group
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
-
6
11
Parvovirus
-
-
-
-
3
-
8
16
27
44
243
451
Picornavirus family
Coxsackievirus B4
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
1
-
4
-
Echovirus type 7
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
33
1
Echovirus type 9
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
3
4
26
Rhinovirus (all types)
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
11
17
48
283
324
Enterovirus not typed/pending
-
1
1
-
-
-
-
27
29
65
617
622
Picornavirus not typed
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
2
-
2
-
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus
2
73
1
3
71
-
46
105
301
282
908
2,104
Influenza B virus
-
16
-
-
79
-
32
17
144
70
373
271
Parainfluenza virus type 1
-
-
-
-
4
-
1
1
6
6
219
40
Parainfluenza virus type 2
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
2
3
6
31
104
Parainfluenza virus type 3
-
5
-
3
20
-
3
33
64
109
223
560
Respiratory syncytial virus
1
26
-
3
57
12
28
68
195
464
2,545
3,175
Other RNA viruses
HTLV-1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
2
5
9
Rotavirus
62
178
-
1
85
6
41
43
416
296
1,181
1,634
Reovirus (unspecified)
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
2
2
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed
-
23
-
3
47
1
7
70
151
474
2,210
3,597
Chlamydia psittaci
-
-
-
-
-
4
6
-
10
4
69
62
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
-
3
-
-
18
-
25
7
53
152
447
1,144
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)
-
-
-
-
2
-
1
1
4
53
53
287
Rickettsia spp - other
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
1
9
11
Streptococcus group A
-
-
-
-
-
-
11
-
11
143
246
556
Bordetella pertussis
-
14
-
-
6
2
30
3
55
87
440
1,001
Legionella pneumophila
-
-
-
-
2
-
1
-
3
2
32
17
Legionella longbeachae
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
2
5
-
43
23
Cryptococcus species
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
10
6
Leptospira species
-
-
-
1
3
-
-
-
4
7
40
77
Treponema pallidum
-
-
-
3
48
-
-
-
51
246
547
1,060
Toxoplasma gondii
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
2
-
11
5
Total
72
392
4
22
587
28
310
526
1,941
3,440
16,603
25,579

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.
* Yet to be notified to NNDSS

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Table 6. Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network reports, weeks 35 to 38, 2000

Week number
35 36 37 38
Week ending on
3 September 2000
10 September 2000
17 September 2000
24 September 2000
Doctors reporting
64
65
64
58
Total encounters
8,186
8,097
7,849
6,768
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
138
16.9
197
24.3
166
21.1
117
17.3
Chickenpox
10
1.2
10
1.2
13
1.7
6
0.9
Gastroenteritis
84
10.3
69
8.5
64
8.2
73
10.8
Gastroenteritis with stool culture
8
1.0
13
1.6
10
1.3
9
1.3
ADT immunisations
19
2.3
30
3.7
38
4.8
39
5.8


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.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 10, October 2000.

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