Virological Surveillance

ESR public health virology laboratory collates, analyses and reports all year round laboratory-based virological surveillance with public health importance from virology laboratories of Auckland, Waikato, Christchurch and Dunedin Hospitals, Microbiology Laboratory of Wellington Hospital and the public health virology laboratory of ESR:

• Influenza and other respiratory viruses
• Enteric and herpes viruses   

Most of the data from this surveillance up till 2002 were published in the former ESR publication Lablink.  Data from 2004 will be routinely published on this website.