This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 29 October - 4 November 2023 and includes updates on West Nile virus, the mass gatherings at the Rugby World Cup 2023 and the detection of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in ticks in southern France.
From 1 January–24 October 2023, 335 laboratory-confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis ST11 cases belonging to three distinct microbiological clusters have been reported in 14 EU/EEA countries, the United Kingdom and the United States, affecting all age groups.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 8-14 October 2023 and includes updates on hepatitis A, influenza A(H5N1), COVID-19, the Rugby World Cup 2023, West Nile virus, measles and diphtheria.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 1 - 7 October 2023 and includes updates on dengue, West Nile virus disease, COVID-19, chikungunya, Middle East respiratory syndrome, mpox, and mass gathering monitoring for the Rugby World Cup.
Outsourced microbiological support to hospital-based surveillance of CDI aims to increase the capacity of laboratories in EU/EEA Member States to perform diagnostic practices with high diagnostic accuracy and acquire comparable typing data from C. difficile isolates.
This report presents the results of the 11th round of the external quality assessment (EQA-11) scheme for typing of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC).