This report describes the epidemiology of invasive bacterial disease due to Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis in EU and EEA Member States in 2010.
The ECDC communicable disease threats report is a weekly bulletin intended for epidemiologists and health professionals in the area of communicable disease prevention and control.
This report on EQA performance shows that European Reference Laboratories for Meningococci differ in their capacities and the level of characterisation of the distributed N. meningitidis material, but that there have been improvements since the first ECDC IBD-labnet distribution.