European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet) - Operating procedures

Public health guidance

This document is under revision. Updated version expected in the beginning of 2025.

Executive Summary

This document describes the operating procedures of the travel-associated Legionnaires’ disease surveillance scheme of the European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet), which is coordinated by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The objective of these procedures is to offer a standardised approach to reporting cases notified from European Union Member States and other contributing countries in order to detect, and respond to, clusters of travel-associated Legionnaires’ disease (TALD).

These procedures describe how information is communicated within the network to other stakeholders and also covers actions by network members in response to TALD clusters.