Surveillance
Virology
- Victorian laboratory supported general practitioner influenza surveillance
- Victorian community norovirus surveillance
- National enterovirus surveillance
- National enterovirus surveillance
- Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance
State and national laboratory-based surveillance services
- Clinical and molecular epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases and pathogens of public health importance
- Surveillance of existing and emerging antimicrobial resistance in pathogens
- Surveillance of sexually transmissible infections
- Victorian Hospital Pathogen Surveillance Scheme (VHPSS)
- National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance Scheme (NEPSS)
- WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for vaccine-preventable bacterial diseases
CONTACT
Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory
T:+61 3 8344 5701
Healthcare Associated Infections
- Surveillance of healthcare associated infections from all Victorian public and selected private hospitals
- Surveillance of infection related indicators e.g. correct administration of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis and processes related to insertion of central lines
- National surveillance of infections in residential aged care facilities in collaboration with the National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey
CONTACT
Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System
T:+61 3 9342 9333
E:vicniss@mh.org.au