Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) Disease information Surveillance and updates Outbreak: STEC 0104:H4 2011 Laboratory Surveillance and updates on Escherichia coli Threats and outbreaks Risk assessments Epidemiological updates Communicable Disease Threats reports Risk assessment Rapid risk assessment: Increase in OXA-244 -producing Escherichia coli in the European Union/European Economic Area and the UK since 2013, first update 20 July 2021 Risk assessment Combined clonal and plasmid-mediated outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales, Lithuania, 2019–2020 3 February 2020 Risk assessment Rapid risk assessment: Risk related to the use of ‘do-it-yourself' CRISPR-associated gene engineering kit contaminated with pathogenic bacteria 2 May 2017 Risk assessment Rapid Outbreak Assessment: multi-country foodborne outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections associated with haemolytic uraemic syndrome, 6 April 2016 6 April 2016 Risk assessment Rapid risk assessment update: Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O104:H4 2011 in the EU, 8 July 2011 12 July 2011 Load More News story Record-high rates of STEC and Listeria infections in the EU/EEA in 2023 5 June 2025 News Healthcare-associated infections, a threat to residents of long-term care facilities in Europe 5 May 2025 News Joint EFSA-ECDC EU report: Bacteria resistant to key antimicrobials still routinely found in humans and animals 5 March 2025 News New genomic surveillance studies reveal circulation of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales in Europe 25 November 2024 News story Continued efforts needed to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in humans and animals 28 February 2024 Load More Surveillance and monitoring Communicable Disease Threats Report, 28 April-4 May 2019, Week 18 3 May 2019 Surveillance and monitoring Communicable disease threats report, 13-19 May 2018, Week 20 18 May 2018 Surveillance reports Annual Epidemiological Reports EU Summary Reports Surveillance and monitoring STEC infection cases - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2023 5 June 2025 Surveillance report STEC infection - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2022 8 February 2024 Surveillance and monitoring STEC infection - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2021 20 December 2022 Surveillance report Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2020 12 September 2022 Surveillance report Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019 24 May 2021 Load More Surveillance and monitoring The European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2023–2024 18 February 2026 Surveillance and monitoring The European Union One Health 2024 Zoonoses report 9 December 2025 Surveillance and monitoring The European Union One Health 2023 Zoonoses report 10 December 2024 Surveillance report The European Union One Health 2022 Zoonoses Report 12 December 2023 Surveillance report The European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2020/2021 6 March 2023 Load More
Risk assessment Rapid risk assessment: Increase in OXA-244 -producing Escherichia coli in the European Union/European Economic Area and the UK since 2013, first update 20 July 2021
Risk assessment Combined clonal and plasmid-mediated outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales, Lithuania, 2019–2020 3 February 2020
Risk assessment Rapid risk assessment: Risk related to the use of ‘do-it-yourself' CRISPR-associated gene engineering kit contaminated with pathogenic bacteria 2 May 2017
Risk assessment Rapid Outbreak Assessment: multi-country foodborne outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections associated with haemolytic uraemic syndrome, 6 April 2016 6 April 2016
Risk assessment Rapid risk assessment update: Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O104:H4 2011 in the EU, 8 July 2011 12 July 2011
News Healthcare-associated infections, a threat to residents of long-term care facilities in Europe 5 May 2025
News Joint EFSA-ECDC EU report: Bacteria resistant to key antimicrobials still routinely found in humans and animals 5 March 2025
News New genomic surveillance studies reveal circulation of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales in Europe 25 November 2024
News story Continued efforts needed to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in humans and animals 28 February 2024
Surveillance and monitoring Communicable Disease Threats Report, 28 April-4 May 2019, Week 18 3 May 2019
Surveillance and monitoring STEC infection cases - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2023 5 June 2025
Surveillance report Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2020 12 September 2022
Surveillance report Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019 24 May 2021
Surveillance and monitoring The European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2023–2024 18 February 2026
Surveillance report The European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2020/2021 6 March 2023
