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:
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.