The annual general meeting of the microbiology network ‘European Network for Diagnostics of "Imported" Viral Diseases’ (ENIVD), funded by ECDC, brought together more than 55 participants from 24 EU/EEA countries to discuss the collaborative activities with the ECDC
In May 2012 a collection of five strains of Haemophilus spp was sent to 28 participating reference laboratories in the IBD-labnet surveillance network for quality assurance testing. The laboratories were asked to characterise the five strains by performing standard laboratory protocols for the methods usually used by the laboratory for: species identification, biotyping and serotyping by serological methods and/or PCR.
The results of this EQA are published in the this report.