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Eurosurveillance Editions 2012,  Volume 17:
May: 10 | 03 |
Apr: 26 | 19 | 12 | 05 |
Mar: 29 | 22 | 15 | 08 | 01 |
Feb: 23 | 16 | 09 | 02 |
Jan: 26 | 19 | 12 | 05 |

Eurosurveillance Special Editions 2012,  Volume 17:
Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila May 2012
Q fever January 2012

Eurosurveillance releases:
Eurosurveillance Edition: 10 May 2012
Ongoing mumps outbreak in Novi Sad, the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia, January to April 2012 S Rajčević et al.
Age-dependent prevalence of antibodies cross-reactive to the influenza A(H3N2) variant virus in sera collected in Norway in 2011 K Waalen et al.
Fatal case of human rabies imported to Italy from India highlights the importance of adequate post-exposure prophylaxis, October 2011 P De Benedictis et al.
Case registry systems for pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Europe: are there lessons for the future? J Whelan et al.

Eurosurveillance Edition: 03 May 2012
Hand hygiene practices in healthcare: measure and improve DL Monnet et al.
Possible contamination of organ preservation fluid with Bacillus cereus: the United Kingdom response CS Brown et al.
First estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness among severe influenza cases, France, 2011/12 I Bonmarin et al.
Four multifaceted countrywide campaigns to promote hand hygiene in Belgian hospitals between 2005 and 2011: impact on compliance to hand hygiene M Costers et al.
Influenza-related deaths - available methods for estimating numbers and detecting patterns for seasonal and pandemic influenza in Europe A Nicoll et al.
In the national epidemiological bulletins - a selection from current issues


Eurosurveillance Edition: 26 April 2012
Vaccine registers – experiences from Europe and elsewhere R Pebody
The Danish vaccination register T Grove Krause et al.
Præventis, the immunisation register of the Netherlands: a tool to evaluate the National Immunisation Programme A van Lier et al.
Immunisation registers in Canada: progress made, current situation, and challenges for the future JA Laroche et al.
Estimating vaccination coverage in the absence of immunisation registers – the German experience A Siedler et al.
Immunisation registers in Italy: a patchwork of computerisation V Alfonsi et al.
Use of the vaccination register to evaluate influenza vaccine coverage in seniors in the 2010/11 influenza season, Navarre, Spain I Aguilar et al.
Ten years polio-free: anniversary in the World Health Organization European Region Eurosurveillance editorial team
Deadline for special issue on the molecular epidemiology of human pathogens extended to 30 June 2012

Eurosurveillance Edition: 19 April 2012
Immunisation registers – important for vaccinated individuals, vaccinators and public health K Johansen et al.
Measuring childhood vaccine coverage in England: the role of Child Health Information Systems G Amirthalingam et al.
The Norwegian immunisation register – SYSVAK L Trogstad et al.
Computerised vaccination register for the Murcia region, Spain, 1991 to 2011 PJ Bernal-González et al.
Australian immunisation registers: established foundations and opportunities for improvement LK Chin et al.

Eurosurveillance Edition: 12 April 2012
Q fever outbreak in the village of Noćaj, Srem county, Vojvodina province, Serbia, January to February 2012 S Medić et al.
Early estimates of seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness in Europe among target groups for vaccination: results from the I-MOVE multicentre case–control study, 2011/12 E Kissling et al.
Health professions and risk of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, 1965 to 2010 E Alcalde-Cabero et al.
Description and analysis of 12 years of surveillance for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in Denmark, 1997 to 2008 S Gubbels et al.
A human metapneumovirus outbreak at a community hospital in England, July to September 2010 MA Degail et al.

Eurosurveillance Edition: 05 April 2012
Influenza outbreaks in nursing homes with high vaccination coverage in Navarre, Spain, 2011/12 J Castilla et al.
Excess mortality among the elderly in 12 European countries, February and March 2012 A Mazick et al.
Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in England, 2009 to 2011: a greater burden of severe illness in the year after the pandemic than in the pandemic year OT Mytton et al.
European Food Safety Authority publishes its second report on the Schmallenberg virus Eurosurveillance editorial team

Eurosurveillance Edition: 29 March 2012
Ongoing outbreak of Shigella flexneri serotype 3a in men who have sex with men in England and Wales, data from 2009–2011 ML Borg et al.
Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011 MS Arcilla et al.
Risk perception and information-seeking behaviour during the 2009/10 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic in Germany D Walter et al.
An outbreak of severe respiratory tract infection caused by human metapneumovirus in a residential care facility for elderly in Utrecht, the Netherlands, January to March 2010 MJ te Wierik et al.
In the national epidemiological bulletins - a selection from current issues
Job vacancy at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
New issue of EpiSouth Network Electronic Bulletin is online

Eurosurveillance Edition: 22 March 2012
Can the economic crisis have an impact on tuberculosis in the EU/EEA? MJ van der Werf et al.
Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the EU/EEA in 2010 – monitoring the progress towards tuberculosis elimination A Sandgren et al.
Early estimates of the effectiveness of the 2011/12 influenza vaccine in the population targeted for vaccination in Spain, 25 December 2011 to 19 February 2012 S Jiménez-Jorge et al.
Fatal case of imported human rabies in Amadora, Portugal, August 2011 A Santos et al.
Tick-borne encephalitis transmitted by unpasteurised cow milk in western Hungary, September to October 2011 S Caini et al.
Letter to the editor: Rabid puppy-dog imported into the Netherlands from Morocco via Spain, February 2012 P Santa-Olalla Peralta et al.
Authors’ reply: Rabid puppy-dog imported into the Netherlands from Morocco via Spain, February 2012 GG van Rijckevorsel
Call for papers for a special issue on the epidemiology of leishmaniasis in Europe
Job vacancy at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Eurosurveillance Edition: 15 March 2012
Ongoing measles outbreak in Elche, Spain, 29 January to 9 March 2012 JA Delgado de los Reyes et al.
Identification of OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in Greece, 2010 to 2011 A Liakopoulos et al.
Moderate influenza vaccine effectiveness in Victoria, Australia, 2011 JE Fielding et al.
Outbreak investigation of brucellosis in Thassos, Greece, 2008 I Karagiannis et al.
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carrying the NDM-1 gene, Czech Republic, 2011 A Nemec et al.
The European Union Summary Report on antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2010 Eurosurveillance editorial team
Call for expression of interest for membership in EFSA’s Stakeholder Platform Eurosurveillance editorial team

Eurosurveillance Edition: 08 March 2012
Human African trypanosomiasis in travellers to Kenya F Gobbi et al.
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in a German traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, January 2012 T Wolf et al.
Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012 J Clerinx et al.
Rabid puppy-dog imported into the Netherlands from Morocco via Spain, February 2012 GG van Rijckevorsel et al.
Increased reports of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from laboratories in Scotland in 2010 and 2011 – impact of the epidemic in infants NJ Gadsby et al.
Letter to the editor: Commitment needed for the prevention of congenital rubella syndrome in Europe T Derrough et al.
The European Union summary report on trends and sources of zoonoses, zoonotic agents and food-borne outbreaks in 2010 Eurosurveillance editorial team
Addendum for Euro Surveill. 2012;17(9)
Authors’ correction for Euro Surveill. 2012;17(9)

Eurosurveillance Edition: 01 March 2012
Identification of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates with a recombinant porA gene in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2010 to 2011 K Eastick et al.
Clinical Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolate with a N. meningitidis porA gene and no prolyliminopeptidase activity, Sweden, 2011 – danger of false-negative genetic and culture diagnostic results D Golparian et al.
Overrepresentation of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus among severe influenza cases in the 2011/12 season in four European countries J Beauté et al.
Gastroenteritis outbreaks in elderly homes in the east of France during winter 2009/10: aetiology research for a series of 37 outbreaks F Thouillot et al.
A norovirus outbreak triggered by copper intoxication on a coach trip from the Netherlands to Germany, April 2010 J Hoefnagel et al.

Eurosurveillance Edition: 23 February 2012
Increased detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children, Lyon, France, 2010 to 2011 D Eibach et al.
Ongoing epidemic of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Jerusalem, Israel, 2010 to 2012 R Nir-Paz et al.
First detection of tick-borne “Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis” in Denmark 2011 ME Fertner et al.
Preliminary report: Outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in a hotel in Calp, Spain, update on 22 February 2012 H Vanaclocha et al.
Wellness centres: an important but overlooked source of Legionnaires’ disease. Eight years of source investigation in the Netherlands, 1 August 2002 to 1 August 2010 SM Euser et al.
Surveillance of acute infectious gastroenteritis (1992–2009) and food-borne disease outbreaks (1996–2009) in Italy, with a focus on the Piedmont and Lombardy regions L Mughini-Gras et al.
In the national epidemiological bulletins - a selection from current issues

Eurosurveillance Edition: 16 February 2012
Ongoing rubella outbreak among adolescents in Salaj, Romania, September 2011–January 2012 D Janta et al.
Isolation of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pnemoniae in Ireland, July 2011 H McDermott et al.
NDM-1 producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from a patient repatriated to the Czech Republic from Egypt, July 2011 J Hrabák et al.
Microbiological and molecular characteristics of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae endemic in a tertiary Greek hospital during 2004-2010 A Zagorianou et al.
Emergence and outbreak of carbapenemase-producing KPC-3 Klebsiella pneumoniae in Spain, September 2009 to February 2010: control measures A Robustillo Rodela et al.
Experiences from the Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany and research needs in the field, Berlin, 28–29 November 2011 STEC Workshop Reporting Group
Letter to the editor: Screening for Coxiella burnetii infection during pregnancy: pros and cons according to the Wilson and Jungner criteria E Leshem et al.
The Communicable Diseases Threat Report now published every week on the ECDC website T Mollet et al.

Eurosurveillance Edition: 09 February 2012
Mycoplasma pneumoniae: now in the focus of clinicians and epidemiologists E Jacobs
Increased detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children in England and Wales, October 2011 to January 2012 VJ Chalker et al.
Antibiotic prescriptions and laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the epidemic in Sweden in 2011 A Linde et al.
A possible outbreak of hepatitis A associated with semi-dried tomatoes, England, July–November 2011 C Carvalho et al.
Another possible food-borne outbreak of hepatitis A in the Netherlands indicated by two closely related molecular sequences, July to October 2011 N Fournet et al.
Outbreak of salmonellosis after a wedding party, Bavaria, Germany, summer 2010: the importance of implementing food safety concepts B von Wissmann et al.
Call for expression of interest for the cohort 2012 of EPIET Member State track Eurosurveillance editorial team
Erratum for Euro Surveill. 2012;17(5)
Erratum for Euro Surveill. 2012;17(5)

Eurosurveillance Edition: 02 February 2012
Surveillance status and recent data for Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in the European Union and European Economic Area, January 2012 A Lenglet et al.
Increased incidence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Finland, 2010–2011 A Polkowska et al.
Increased incidence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Norway 2011 H Blystad et al.
Epidemic of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Denmark, 2010 and 2011 SA Uldum et al.
Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype 4,[5],12:i:- infection associated with consumption of dried pork sausage, France, November to December 2011 CM Gossner et al.
Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a child day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain, October to December 2011 J Artieda et al.

Eurosurveillance Edition: 26 January 2012
Cross-reactive antibody to swine influenza A(H3N2) subtype virus in children and adults before and after immunisation with 2010/11 trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in Canada, August to November 2010 DM Skowronski et al.
Outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome due to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 among French tourists returning from Turkey, September 2011 N Jourdan-da Silva et al.
Two invasive mosquito species, Aedes albopictus and Aedes japonicus japonicus, trapped in south-west Germany, July to August 2011 D Werner et al.
Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccination policies and coverage in Europe J Mereckiene et al.
In the national epidemiological bulletins - a selection from current issues
Job vacancy at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Eurosurveillance Edition: 19 January 2012
Q fever: new insights, still many queries H de Valk
Applicability of evidence-based practice in public health: risk assessment on Q fever under an ongoing outbreak F Forland et al.
Relation between Q fever notifications and Coxiella burnetii infections during the 2009 outbreak in the Netherlands W van der Hoek et al.
Shifting priorities in the aftermath of a Q fever epidemic in 2007 to 2009 in the Netherlands: from acute to chronic infection W van der Hoek et al.
Screening for Coxiella burnetii infection during pregnancy: pros and cons according to the Wilson and Jungner criteria JM Munster et al.
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Eurosurveillance Edition: 12 January 2012
Lymphogranuloma venereum: a hidden emerging problem, Barcelona, 2011 H Vargas-Leguas et al.
First detection of Chlamydia trachomatis LGV biovar in the Czech Republic, 2010–2011 D Vanousova et al.
Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 antibodies after pandemic and trivalent seasonal influenza vaccination as well as natural infection in November 2010 in Hamburg, Germany JP Cramer et al.
Assessment of public health issues of migrants at the Greek-Turkish border, April 2011 E Mertens et al.
Molecular epidemiology of human pathogens: how to translate breakthroughs into public health practice, Stockholm, November 2011 D Palm et al.
Call for papers for a special issue on molecular epidemiology of human pathogens

Eurosurveillance Edition: 05 January 2012
A note from the editors: 2011 in numbers and developments foreseen for 2012 Eurosurveillance editorial team
Three probable cases of cutaneous anthrax in autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia, June 2011 P Đurić et al.
Call for applications for EPIET fellows Eurosurveillance editorial team
Eurosurveillance reviewers in 2011
In the national epidemiological bulletins - a selection from current issues
New issue of EpiSouth Quarterly Electronic Bulletin is online
Author’s correction for Euro Surveill. 2011;16(50)
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