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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

Molecular typing for public health purposes
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(...)
Rabies – a recurrent danger to European countries from dogs introduced from endemic countries
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

Imported rabies in a quarantine centre in the United Kingdom
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

HARMONY – the International Union of Microbiology Societies’ European Staphylococcal Typing Network
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(...)
A European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a communication platform between human and veterinary medicine – an update on SeqNet.org
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 (...)
MLVA-NET – a standardised web database for bacterial genotyping and surveillance
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(...)
Development of an online database for diphtheria molecular epidemiology under the remit of the DIPNET project
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(...)
On-line Global/WHO-European Regional Measles Nucleotide Surveillance
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 (...)
HepSEQ – an Integrated Hepatitis B Epidemiology and Sequence Analysis Platform
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(...)
Typing database for noroviruses
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

EFSA launches public consultation on food-borne antimicrobial resistance as a biological hazard
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.

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