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Since 1995, Eurosurveillance has provided the European public health community with an open-access platform to exchange relevant findings on communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control. A weekly, electronic, peer-reviewed publication, Eurosurveillance aims to provide timely facts and guidance for public health professionals and decision-makers in the field of infectious disease to facilitate the implementation of effective prevention and control measures. Impact factor: 6.4. More...
Latest Issue: Volume 26, Issue 2, 14 January 2021 Latest Issue RSS feed
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Real-time monitoring shows substantial excess all-cause mortality during second wave of COVID-19 in Europe, October to December 2020
Sarah K. Nørgaard , Lasse S. Vestergaard , Jens Nielsen , Lukas Richter , Daniela Schmid , Natalia Bustos , Toon Braye , Maria Athanasiadou , Theodore Lytras , Gleb Denissov , Tatjana Veideman , Oskari Luomala , Teemu Möttönen , Anne Fouillet , Céline Caserio-Schönemann , Matthias an der Heiden , Helmut Uphoff , Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou , Janos Bobvos , Anna Paldy , Naama Rotem , Irene Kornilenko , Lisa Domegan , Joan O’Donnell , Francesca De Donato , Matteo Scortichini , Patrick Hoffmann , Telma Velez , Kathleen England , Neville Calleja , Liselotte van Asten , Lenny Stoeldraijer , Richard A White , Trine H Paulsen , Susana P da Silva , Ana P Rodrigues , Petra Klepac , Metka Zaletel , Mario Fafangel , Amparo Larrauri , Inmaculada León , Ahmed Farah , Ilias Galanis , Christoph Junker , Damir Perisa , Mary Sinnathamby , Nick Andrews , Mark G O'Doherty , David Irwin , Sharon Kennedy , Jim McMenamin , Cornelia Adlhoch , Nick Bundle , Pasi Penttinen , Jukka Pukkila , Richard Pebody , Tyra G Krause and Kåre MølbakThe European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action (EuroMOMO) network monitors weekly excess all-cause mortality in 27 European countries or subnational areas. During the first wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Europe in spring 2020, several countries experienced extraordinarily high levels of excess mortality. Europe is currently seeing another upsurge in COVID-19 cases, and EuroMOMO is again witnessing a substantial excess all-cause mortality attributable to COVID-19.
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Negligible risk of zoonotic anisakid nematodes in farmed fish from European mariculture, 2016 to 2018
BackgroundThe increasing demand for raw or undercooked fish products, supplied by both aquaculture and fisheries, raises concerns about the transmission risk to humans of zoonotic fish parasites. This has led to the current European Union (EU) Regulation No 1276/2011 amending Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 and mandating a freezing treatment of such products. Zoonotic parasites, particularly anisakid larvae, have been well documented in wild fish. Data on their presence in European aquaculture products, however, are still scarce, except for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), where the zoonotic risk was assessed as negligible, exempting it from freezing treatment.
AimTo evaluate the zoonotic Anisakidae parasite risk in European farmed marine fish other than Atlantic salmon.
MethodsFrom 2016 to 2018 an observational parasitological survey was undertaken on 6,549 farmed fish including 2,753 gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata), 2,761 European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and 1,035 turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) from 14 farms in Italy, Spain and Greece. Furthermore, 200 rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) sea-caged in Denmark, as well as 352 seabream and 290 seabass imported in Italy and Spain from other countries were examined. Fish were subjected to visual inspection and candling. Fresh visceral organs/fillet samples were artificially digested or UV pressed and visually examined for zoonotic anisakid larvae.
ResultsNo zoonotic parasites were found in any of the fish investigated.
ConclusionsThe risk linked to zoonotic Anisakidae in the examined fish species from European mariculture appears negligible. This study laid the groundwork for considerations to amend the current EU regulation.
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Improving tuberculosis surveillance by detecting international transmission using publicly available whole genome sequencing data
IntroductionImproving the surveillance of tuberculosis (TB) is especially important for multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB. The large amount of publicly available whole genome sequencing (WGS) data for TB gives us the chance to re-use data and to perform additional analyses at a large scale.
AimWe assessed the usefulness of raw WGS data of global MDR/XDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates available from public repositories to improve TB surveillance.
MethodsWe extracted raw WGS data and the related metadata of M. tuberculosis isolates available from the Sequence Read Archive. We compared this public dataset with WGS data and metadata of 131 MDR- and XDR M. tuberculosis isolates from Germany in 2012 and 2013.
ResultsWe aggregated a dataset that included 1,081 MDR and 250 XDR isolates among which we identified 133 molecular clusters. In 16 clusters, the isolates were from at least two different countries. For example, Cluster 2 included 56 MDR/XDR isolates from Moldova, Georgia and Germany. When comparing the WGS data from Germany with the public dataset, we found that 11 clusters contained at least one isolate from Germany and at least one isolate from another country. We could, therefore, connect TB cases despite missing epidemiological information.
ConclusionWe demonstrated the added value of using WGS raw data from public repositories to contribute to TB surveillance. Comparing the German with the public dataset, we identified potential international transmission events. Thus, using this approach might support the interpretation of national surveillance results in an international context.
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Epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 cases and estimates of the reproductive numbers 1 month into the epidemic, Italy, 28 January to 31 March 2020
Flavia Riccardo , Marco Ajelli , Xanthi D Andrianou , Antonino Bella , Martina Del Manso , Massimo Fabiani , Stefania Bellino , Stefano Boros , Alberto Mateo Urdiales , Valentina Marziano , Maria Cristina Rota , Antonietta Filia , Fortunato D'Ancona , Andrea Siddu , Ornella Punzo , Filippo Trentini , Giorgio Guzzetta , Piero Poletti , Paola Stefanelli , Maria Rita Castrucci , Alessandra Ciervo , Corrado Di Benedetto , Marco Tallon , Andrea Piccioli , Silvio Brusaferro , Giovanni Rezza , Stefano Merler , Patrizio Pezzotti and the COVID-19 working group
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