Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Tables - LabVISE

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 3, September 2003 contains an analysis and tables of notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

Page last updated: 03 September 2003

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There were 5,331reports received by the Virology and Serology Laboratory Reporting Scheme (LabVISE) in the reporting period, 1 April to 30 June 2003 (Tables 5 and 6).

Table 5. Virology and serology laboratory reports by State or Territory1 for the reporting period 1 April to 30 June 2003, and total reports for the year2

  State or Territory1 This period 2003 This period 2002 Year to date 20033 Year to date 2002
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
Measles, mumps, rubella
Measles virus - - - - 2 - 21 1 24 4 38 9
Mumps virus - - - - - - 1 - 1 6 6 11
Rubella virus - - - 1 2 - - 1 4 29 12 49
Hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis A virus 1 - 1 8 5 - - 4 19 18 36 39
Hepatitis D virus - - - - - - 1 1 2 2 8 3
Arboviruses
Ross River virus 1 46 4 809 3 - - 36 899 146 1,111 348
Barmah Forest virus - 39 1 219 1 - - 3 263 63 340 129
Dengue type 1 - - - - - - - 1 1 1 3 1
Dengue not typed - 1 2 - - - - 4 7 34 22 144
Flavivirus (unspecified) - - - 62 - - 3 - 65 18 104 28
Adenoviruses
Adenovirus type 40 - - - - - - - 9 9 12 20 21
Adenovirus not typed/pending - 23 6 8 118 - 3 42 200 204 400 369
Herpes viruses
Herpes virus type 6 - - - - - - 1 - 1 - 2 -
Cytomegalovirus 7 35 - 30 122 4 8 - 206 246 467 538
Varicella-zoster virus 1 24 5 174 52 1 11 92 360 404 776 896
Epstein-Barr virus 1 4 11 158 152 - 16 36 378 384 836 883
Other DNA viruses
Molluscum contagiosum - - - - - - - 1 1 7 9 12
Contagious pustular dermatitis (Orf virus) - - - - - - 1 - 1 - 2 -
Parvovirus - - - 14 3 - 22 12 51 76 100 174
Picornavirus family
Coxsackievirus A16 - 1 - - - - - - 1 2 3 2
Coxsackievirus B3 - 1 - - - - - - 1 - 1 -
Echovirus type 9 - 1 - - - - - - 1 6 5 14
Echovirus type 11 - 1 - - - - - - 1 1 2 1
Poliovirus type 1 (uncharacterised) - 7 - - - - - - 7 10 16 14
Poliovirus type 2 (uncharacterised) - 2 - - - - - - 2 6 2 8
Rhinovirus (all types) 1 46 1 1 2 - - 54 105 100 229 194
Enterovirus not typed/pending - 1 1 7 - - - 19 28 141 67 266
Picornavirus not typed - - - - - - 2 - 2 - 4 12
Ortho/paramyxoviruses
Influenza A virus - 6 - 12 75 - 1 2 96 289 198 390
Influenza B virus - - - - 26 - - 4 30 204 57 230
Parainfluenza virus type 1 - 4 - - 3 - 1 1 9 141 25 183
Parainfluenza virus type 2 1 9 - 1 15 - - 1 27 36 46 45
Parainfluenza virus type 3 - 15 - 6 53 - - 7 81 89 192 150
Parainfluenza virus type 4 - - - - - - - 1 1 1 1 1
Respiratory syncytial virus - 261 1 54 38 3 4 25 386 981 521 1,106
Other RNA viruses
HTLV-1 - - 1 - 2 - - - 3 1 7 1
Rotavirus - 14 - - 13 2 1 42 72 295 131 386
Calicivirus - - 2 1 - - - 43 46 - 80 8
Norwalk agent - - - - - - 8 - 8 86 35 137
Other
Chlamydia trachomatis not typed 6 116 7 397 298 18 2 197 1,041 956 2,272 1,879
Chlamydia pneumoniae 2 3 - - - - - - 5 5 9 7
Chlamydia psittaci - 1 - 1 1 - 21 - 24 16 41 28
Mycoplasma pneumoniae 3 30 3 91 40 5 53 4 229 301 429 583
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) 1 - - 9 21 - 4 1 36 53 92 112
Rickettsia australis - - - - - - 1 - 1 1 1 1
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi - - - - - - - 1 1 - 1 -
Streptococcus group A 1 3 - 83 - - 39 - 126 123 271 217
Streptococcus group B 1 - - - - - - - 1 1 75 1
Yersinia enterocolitica - 1 - - - - - - 1 2 3 4
Brucella abortus - - - - - - 1 - 1 1 2 1
Bordetella pertussis 4 6 - 10 52 - 42 - 114 193 250 564
Legionella pneumophila - - - - 1 - 6 1 8 30 50 46
Legionella longbeachae - - - - 6 - 5 6 17 15 27 22
Legionella species - - - - - - 1 - 1 3 4 5
Cryptococcus species - - - 4 5 - - - 9 8 12 14
Leptospira species - - - 5 - - - - 5 5 11 16
Treponema pallidum - 17 - 122 154 - - 3 296 411 668 690
Entamoeba histolytica - 1 - - - - 1 1 3 10 6 15
Toxoplasma gondii - 1 - 1 5 - - - 7 5 21 15
Echinococcus granulosus - - - - 6 - - - 6 10 11 20
Total 31 720 46 2,288 1,276 33 281 656 5,331 6,192 10,170 11,042

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.



Table 6. Virology and serology laboratory reports by laboratories for the reporting period 1 April to 30 June 20031

State or Territory Laboratory April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 Total this period
Australian Capital Territory The Canberra Hospital 7 6 5 18
New South Wales Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead 69 96 18 183
New Children's Hospital, Westmead 36 96 119 251
Repatriation General Hospital, Concord   -   -   -   -
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown   5   20   20   45
South West Area Pathology Service, Liverpool   36   3   92   131
Queensland Queensland Medical Laboratory, West End   941   983   492   2,416
Townsville General Hospital   -   -   -   -
South Australia Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide   406   474   394   1,274
Tasmania Northern Tasmanian Pathology Service, Launceston   10   10   14   34
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart   -   -   -   -
Victoria Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne   12   8   -   20
Rickettsia Reference Laboratory, Geelong*   -   -   -   -
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne   25   40   31   96
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Fairfield   67   57   38   162
Western Australia PathCentre Virology, Perth   8   329   317   654
Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth   -   -   -   -
Western Diagnostic Pathology   -   47   -   47
Total   1,622 2,169 1,540 5,331

1. The complete list of laboratories reporting for the 12 months, January to December 2003, will appear in every report regardless of whether reports were received in this reporting period. Reports are not always received from all laboratories.
- Nil reports



This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 27, No 3, September 2003.

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