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Escherichia coli (E.coli)

Zoonoses in 2019

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection was the third most reported zoonosis in humans and increased from 2015 to 2019.

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Disease data from ECDC surveillance Atlas

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Publication

Multi-country outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis sequence type (ST)11 infections linked to poultry products in the EU/EEA and the United Kingdom

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News

Campylobacter and Salmonella cases stable in the EU

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The European Union One Health 2019 Zoonoses Report

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Tularaemia - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019

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Publication

Multi-country outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis sequence type (ST)11 infections linked to poultry products in the EU/EEA and the United Kingdom

Risk assessment -

Publication

The European Union One Health 2019 Zoonoses Report

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Publication

Tularaemia - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019

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Publication

Laboratory standard operating procedure for detecting sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease using Real- Time Quaking-Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC) assay

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News

Campylobacter and Salmonella cases stable in the EU

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Event

World Hepatitis Day 2020

28 Jul 2020

News

Salmonella the most common cause of foodborne outbreaks in the European Union

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Increase of XDR Typhoid fever in travellers returning from Pakistan

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Event

World Refugee Day 2019

20 Jun 2019
Sep 2017

Event

Joint Meeting of the ECDC’s Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network and of the EFSA’s Zoonoses Monitoring Data Network

16 Sep 2017 - 17 Sep 2017
Parma, Italy

Event

1st Hepatitis E virus network (HEVnet) meeting

26 Oct 2017 - 27 Oct 2017
RIVM, Bilthoven
Sep 2017

Event

31st Congress of IUSTI-Europe on Sexually Transmitted Infections

31 Aug 2017 - 2 Sep 2017
Helsinki, Finland

Data

Surveillance systems overview for 2019

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Surveillance systems overview for 2018

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Surveillance systems overview for 2017

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Vibrio suitability tool

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Threats and outbreaks

Surveillance and disease data

Microbiology

Prevention and control

Public health advice on prevention of diarrhoeal illness with special focus on Shiga toxin - producing Escherichia coli (STEC), also called verotoxin - producing E. coli (VTEC) or enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)

Antimicrobial resistance

Escherichia coli resistance to major antibiotics is increasing in almost all countries in Europe. E. coli causes urinary tract and more serious infections and is one of the most common bacteria causing infections.

Facts

Escherichia coli (E.coli) are very common bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, and part of the normal bacterial flora.

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Anthrax

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Botulism

Disease / public health area

Brucellosis

Disease networks

European Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net)

Peer-reviewed publications

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Switzerland

Jan 2019

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Evaluation of molecular typing of foodborne pathogens in European reference laboratories from 2012 to 2013

Jan 2016