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Volume 9, Number 1—January 2003
Research

Viral Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Europe, 1995–2000

Ben Lopman*†Comments to Author , Mark Reacher*, Yvonne van Duijnhoven‡, François-Xavier Hanon§, David Brown†, and Marion Koopmans‡1
Author affiliations: *Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London, England; †Central Public Health Laboratory, London, England; ‡National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands; §Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Table 1

Sources of information of viral gastroenteritis surveillance systems in the Foodborne Viruses in Europe network

Country
 Sources of outbreak data
Diagnostic microbiology laboratory Food safety inspectorate Physician/ patient reports Local/regional public health authority Type of outbreaks reported
Denmark
Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Food/waterborne
France
 Yes
Yes
 Food/waterborne
England and Wales
Yes
 All
Italy
 Yes
All
Finland
 Yesa
All
Sweden
 Yes
All
Germany
 Yes
Yesb
 All
Slovenia
 Yes
Yes
 All
Spain
 Yes
Yes
 All
the Netherlandsc Yes Yes Yes Yes Alld

aParticipant is sole laboratory performing viral testing, and coordination is conducted at National Public Health Laboratory and National Food Administration.
bNorovirus became a reported disease in January 2000. From 1997 to 2000, reports from local health departments were collected unsystematically.
cDutch national data were collected from three systems: notification system, food safety inspectorate, and laboratory-based system (from diagnostic microbiology laboratories, local/regional public health authorities, physician/patient reports, and other institutions in which outbreaks occurred).
dFoodborne only for systems 1 and 2.

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1On behalf of the Foodborne Viruses in Europe group, which includes: the Netherlands: M. Koopmans, H. Vennena, Y. van Duynhoven, and M.A. Widdowson,; Finland: K.-H. von Bonsdorff, L. Maunula; Denmark: B. Böttiger, K. Mølbak, F.X. Hanon; Sweden: L. Svensson, K.-O. Hedlund, Maria Thorvag, Juan Carrique-Mas; United Kingdom: D. Brown, M. Reacher, J. Green, B. Lopman; Germany: E. Schreier, H. Gelderblom, Andrea Ammon; Spain: A. Sanchez-Faquier, G. Hernández-Pezzi, A. Bosch, J. Buesa; France: F. LeGuyader, P. Pothier, E. Kohli; Italy: F. Ruggeri, D. DeMedici; and Slovenia: M. Poljsak-Prijatelj, A. Hocevar-Grom.

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