Communicable Diseases 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 2007.

Page last updated: 07 December 2007

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There were 10,198 reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 July to 30 September 2007 (Tables 4 and 5).

Table 4. Virology and serology laboratory reports by state or territory* for the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2007, and total reports for the year

  State or territory This period 2007 This period 2006 Year to date 2007 Year to date 2006
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Measles, mumps, rubella
Measles virus
1
4
1
6
2
18
54
Mumps virus
2
14
3
19
2
41
25
Rubella virus
1
1
5
15
13
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus
1
5
1
1
8
8
31
24
Hepatitis D virus
4
4
1
20
5
Arboviruses
Ross River virus
4
1
120
38
2
165
44
888
1,021
Barmah Forest virus
2
1
93
16
112
36
409
265
Flavivirus (unspecified)
25
25
4
81
43
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus not typed/pending
1
90
1
139
150
8
389
229
772
489
Herpes viruses
Herpes virus type 6
1
1
2
2
Cytomegalovirus
1
52
115
116
3
8
295
217
888
735
Varicella-zoster virus
5
98
1
518
145
2
5
774
287
2,088
897
Epstein-Barr virus
16
360
197
2
10
585
365
1,962
1,184
Other DNA viruses
Parvovirus
1
103
5
1
12
122
61
287
149
Picornavirus family
Rhinovirus (all types)
1
44
8
53
100
214
142
Enterovirus type 69
1
1
1
Enterovirus not typed/pending
13
6
8
3
30
18
107
94
Picornavirus not typed
3
3
1
4
2
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus
1
299
15
1,106
440
24
82
7
1,974
229
2,098
301
Influenza B virus
10
11
54
19
94
126
109
170
Influenza virus - typing pending
1
1
1
Parainfluenza virus type 1
7
3
7
17
16
28
74
Parainfluenza virus type 2
8
1
7
16
5
57
12
Parainfluenza virus type 3
78
2
78
56
1
6
221
89
318
114
Respiratory syncytial virus
2
324
262
360
42
41
1,031
1,187
1,833
1,748
Other RNA viruses
HTLV-1
3
3
12
4
Rotavirus
70
135
3
208
738
315
870
Norwalk agent
11
381
392
429
614
1,110
Other pathogens
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed
4
226
1,301
513
10
10
1
2,065
932
6,274
3,404
Chlamydia pneumoniae
1
1
1
1
1
Chlamydia psittaci
3
3
17
39
43
Chlamydia species
1
1
1
2
2
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
9
3
221
67
8
58
366
294
988
901
Mycoplasma hominis
1
1
10
5
20
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)
1
1
26
16
7
51
23
143
94
Orientia tsutsugamushi
1
1
2
7
23
Rickettsia - spotted fever group
5
5
19
66
85
Streptococcus group A
6
53
230
39
328
65
823
329
Yersinia enterocolitica
2
2
4
1
7
5
Brucella abortus
1
1
2
Brucella species
4
4
2
7
5
Bordetella pertussis
5
145
98
1
13
1
263
552
659
1,223
Legionella pneumophila
2
5
7
6
28
25
Legionella species
1
1
3
Cryptococcus species
7
14
21
3
41
17
Leptospira species
1
11
2
14
5
52
16
Treponema pallidum
29
8
270
183
11
501
191
1,767
686
Entamoeba histolytica
1
1
1
6
1
Toxoplasma gondii
1
3
1
1
6
3
21
36
Echinococcus granulosus
2
2
16
3
Total
16
1,413
85
5,170
2,669
101
734
9
10,197
6,327
24,170
16,466

* 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.

Table 5. Virology and serology reports by laboratories for the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2007*

State or territory
Laboratory
July2007 August 2007 September 2007 Total this period
Australian Capital Territory The Canberra Hospital 0
New South Wales Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead 115 137 57 309
New Children's Hospital, Westmead 212 190 101 503
Repatriation General Hospital, Concord 0
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown 28 39 17 84
South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool 161 80 241
Queensland Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End 1,604 2,373 1,615 5,592
Townsville General Hospital 0
South Australia Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide 841 1,112 709 2,662
Tasmania Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston 23 50 24 97
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart 0
Victoria Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne 40 39 13 92
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne 21 31 18 70
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield 85 264 199 548
Western Australia PathWest Virology, Perth 0
Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth 0
Western Diagnostic Pathology 0
Total   3,130 4,315 2,753 10,198

* The complete list of laboratories reporting for the 12 months, January to December 2007, 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.

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