This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period from 9-15 June 2019 and includes updates on cholera, measles, dengue, Ebola virus disease, West Nile virus infection, chlamydia trachomatic testing and Salmonella Enteriditis associated with travel on cruise ships.
This joint ECDC-EFSA rapid outbreak assessment provides an assessment of the cross-border public health risk related to L. monocytogenes infections linked to the consumption of cold-smoked fish products, possibly originating from a single food processing company.
This report presents the results of a proficiency test to evaluate the inter-laboratory reproducibility and portability of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) genome assemblies in the EU/EEA.
ECDC has identified a microbiological link between an outbreak of nine Listeria monocytogenes ST1247 cases in Denmark and nine additional cases reported between 2014 and 2018 in Estonia (2 cases) Finland (2), France (1) and Sweden (4).