In this issue of Eurosurveillance, seven web-based databases are presented that are dedicated to the molecular typing of bacteria or viruses.
Eurosurveillance, Volume 13, Issue 19, 08 May 2008
Table of Contents
Editorials
by A Ammon
By providing appropriate discriminatory analyses, molecular typing can foster rapid and – depending on the method – even real-time early detection of dispersed international clusters/outbreaks, the de(...)
by I Steffens, K Ekdahl
Although vaccine-preventable, rabies remains a worldwide-occurring disease of major public health concern. Globally, rabies is responsible for about 55,000 human deaths per year, mainly in Asia and Af(...)
Rapid communications
by M Catchpole, L Thomas, D Morgan, K Brown, D Turbitt, H Kirkbride
On the evening of 25 April 2008, the Health Protection Agency of the United Kingdom (UK) was informed that rabies had been confirmed through post-mortem examination of a dog that had died that same da(...)
Perspectives
by B Cookson, the HARMONY participants
The HARMONY typing network was part of the European Union Directorate General XII (now the Directorate-General for Research) funded project “Harmonisation of Antibiotic Resistance measurement, Methods(...)
by AW Friedrich, W Witte, H de Lencastre, W Hryniewicz, J Scheres, H Westh, SeqNet.org participants
SeqNet.org is currently an initiative of 44 laboratories from 25 European countries and one laboratory from Lebanon, founded in 2004, in collaboration with the Robert Koch Institute at the University (...)
by G Guigon, J Cheval, R Cahuzac, S Brisse
We have developed MLVA-NET (http://www.pasteur.fr/mlva), a web-accessible database system dedicated to the comparison of MLVA genotyping profiles and to retrieval of relevant epidemiological informati(...)
by T Dallman, S Neal, J Green, A Efstratiou
The Diphtheria Surveillance Network (DIPNET), launched on 1 November 2006, is a 38-month programme bringing together 25 European Union partner countries (24 Member States and Turkey) and collaborating(...)
by S Gnaneshan , KE Brown, J Green, DW Brown
Following the success of HepSEQ [4], a public health database generated by the Centre for Infections of the United Kingdom Health Protection Agency, and a European Union-funded measles network called (...)
by R Myers, S Gnaneshan , S Ijaz, R Tedder, M Ramsay, J Green, HepSEQ Steering Committee
HepSEQ is a freely accessible web resource for the public health aspects of HBV management, with specific focus on epidemiological, virological, clinical, nucleotide sequence and mutational aspects of(...)
by E Duizer, A Kroneman, J Siebenga, L Verhoef, H Vennema, M Koopmans, the FBVE network
The aim of the FBVE (Food-borne Viruses in Europe) network is to establish a framework for rapid, (pre-publication) exchange of epidemiological, virological and molecular diagnostic data on outbreaks (...)
Miscellaneous
by Eurosurveillance editorial team
The panel on biological hazards (BIOHAZ) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a draft opinion recently on the extent to which food serves as a vehicle for antimicrobial resistance.
Eurosurveillance Edition: 08 May 2008