Since October 2007, the responsibilities of the former Invasive Bacterial Infections Surveillance Network (EU-IBIS) were transferred to ECDC.
The activities are aimed at integrating surveillance of all invasive bacterial infections caused by N. meningitidies, H. influenzae and S. pneumoniae from an epidemiological and laboratory point of view in order to contribute to reducing the burden of diseases associated with invasive bacterial infections.
The activities include annual data collection, evaluation, dissemination of relevant scientific and technical data, promoting the harmonization and external quality assurance of laboratory methods and improve the laboratory capacity to accurately characterise the isolates of N. meningitidies, H. influenzae and S. pneumoniae.