Eurosurveillance - Volume 4, Issue 4, 01 April 1999

‘Effective European surveillance must have the agreement and active involvement of all participants’, concluded a European Union (EU) conference on the need for surveillance of resistant microorganisms (the microbial threat), held in September 1998 in De

The term leptospirosis describes a group of diseases caused by members of the order Spirochaetales, mainly the species Leptospira interrogans. Infection can be asymptomatic but disease of differing severity and clinical features (often suggestive of menin

Nine suspected cases of food poisoning were reported from three hospitals to the epidemiology and prevention service (Servizio di Epidemiologia e Prevenzione - SEP) of the local health authority in Naples district (Azienda Sanitaria Locale, ASL NA 4) betw