Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables - LabVISE, ASPREN

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 11, November 2000 contains an analysis and tables of monthly notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

Page last updated: 15 December 2000

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There were 1,705 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 to 31 October 2000 (Tables 4 and 5).

The Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) data for weeks 39 to 42, ending 22 October 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 October 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
134
170
New Children's Hospital, Westmead
-
-
Repatriation General Hospital, Concord
-
-
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown
42
44
South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool
-
-
Queensland Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End
551
535
Townsville General Hospital
7
7
South Australia Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide
566
643
Tasmania Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston
8
12
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart
-
-
Victoria Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
-
-
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
127
122
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield
135
149
Western Australia PathCentre Virology, Perth
-
-
Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth
132
125
Western Diagnostic Pathology
3
0
Total  
1,705
1,807


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 31 October 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
Mumps virus
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
4
41
50
Rubella virus
-
1
-
4
1
-
1
-
7
18
39
266
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus
-
-
1
3
-
-
1
-
5
24
126
406
Hepatitis E virus
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
2
-
4
1
Arboviruses
Ross River virus
-
1
-
33
6
-
-
-
40
77
1,138
1,487
Barmah Forest virus
-
-
-
7
1
-
-
-
8
8
129
187
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 1
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
1
-
6
8
Adenovirus type 3
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
1
1
17
23
Adenovirus type 6
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
2
-
2
-
Adenovirus type 7
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
1
1
5
5
Adenovirus not typed/pending
2
12
-
2
29
-
6
8
59
103
803
910
Herpes viruses
Cytomegalovirus
1
13
5
72
37
2
30
5
165
80
1,029
1,064
Varicella-zoster virus
2
3
3
42
10
1
14
1
76
156
1,039
1,741
Epstein-Barr virus
-
2
2
55
73
-
12
1
145
191
1,609
2,519
Other DNA viruses
Parvovirus
-
1
-
38
1
-
4
-
44
31
288
477
Picornavirus family
Echovirus type 11
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
16
7
149
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised)
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
5
12
22
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised)
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
4
5
13
Poliovirus type 3 (uncharacterised)
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
2
7
8
Rhinovirus (all types)
-
8
-
1
-
-
-
-
9
56
292
377
Enterovirus not typed/pending
-
-
-
-
-
2
3
-
5
48
663
669
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus
3
13
-
7
118
-
14
30
185
64
1,121
2,146
Influenza B virus
-
11
-
4
28
1
8
2
54
22
456
292
Parainfluenza virus type 1
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
2
-
222
40
Parainfluenza virus type 2
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
1
3
2
34
100
Parainfluenza virus type 3
-
2
-
3
9
-
4
48
66
135
294
693
Respiratory syncytial virus
-
7
-
2
13
1
7
8
38
191
2,586
3,329
Other RNA viruses
Rotavirus
-
48
-
-
65
-
31
22
166
184
1,349
1,817
Norwalk agent
-
-
-
-
2
-
32
-
34
3
51
54
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed
1
38
7
94
75
2
8
7
232
291
2,446
3,812
Chlamydia psittaci
1
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
9
6
76
68
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
-
-
-
24
11
-
20
1
56
135
502
1,267
Mycoplasma hominis
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
7
5
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)
-
2
-
7
1
-
3
-
13
26
67
310
Rickettsia prowazeki
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
-
2
-
Streptococcus group A
-
2
4
30
-
-
11
-
47
58
294
584
Yersinia enterocolitica
-
2
-
2
-
-
-
-
4
1
13
13
Bordetella pertussis
-
11
-
2
35
-
29
-
77
85
520
1,077
Legionella pneumophila
-
-
-
-
1
-
4
-
5
1
37
18
Legionella longbeachae
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
2
6
45
29
Legionella species
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
3
-
5
-
Cryptococcus species
-
1
-
-
1
-
-
-
2
1
13
7
Leptospira species
-
-
-
2
1
-
-
-
3
6
45
83
Treponema pallidum
-
1
40
40
39
-
-
-
120
118
673
1,115
Entamoeba histolytica
-
-
-
1
-
-
2
-
3
2
14
5
Toxoplasma gondii
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
1
2
1
13
6
Total
10
186
62
475
568
12
258
135
1,705
2,164
18,146
27,252

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.

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Table 6. Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network reports, weeks 39 to 42, 2000

Week number
39 40 41 42
Week ending on
1 October 2000
8 October 2000
15 October 2000
22 October 2000
Doctors reporting
62
62
54
52
Total encounters
7,698
6,778
6,038
6,421
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
93
12.1
57
8.4
54
8.9
31
4.8
Chickenpox
10
1.3
5
0.7
6
1.0
13
2.0
Gastroenteritis
76
9.9
49
7.2
47
7.8
65
10.1
Gastroenteritis with stool culture
12
1.6
12
1.8
5
0.8
12
1.9
ADT immunisations
36
4.7
40
5.9
28
4.6
21
3.3


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.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 11, November 2000.

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