Table 1.
European correspondents contacted to participate in the survey on the epidemiological surveillance of toxoplasmosis
| Countries that participated in the survey | |
| Austria | Reinhild Strauss, Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth, General Directorate of Public Health, Vienna |
| Belgium | Germaine Hanquet, Scientific Institute for Public Health, Unit of Epidemiology, Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment, Brussels |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Semra Cavaljuga, Institute for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo |
| Bulgaria | Mira Kojuharova, National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Department of Epidemiology, Sofia |
| Cyprus | Olga Kalakouta, on behalf of Dr. Chrystalla Hadjianastassiou, Chief medical Officer, Medical and Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Nicosia |
| Czech Republic | Petr Kodym, National Reference Laboratory for Toxoplasmosis, National Institute of Public Health, Prague |
| Denmark | Henrik Vedel Nielsen, Unit for Mycology and Parasitology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen |
| England and Wales | Robert Smith, Public Health Laboratory, Service of Communicable Disease, Surveillance Centre Wales, Cardiff |
| Estonia | Kuulo Kutsar, Department of Communicable Diseases, Health Protectorate Inspectorate, Tallinn |
| Finland | Maija Lappalailnen, Department of Virology, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Helsinki |
| France | Isabelle Villena, National Reference centre for toxoplasmosis, Reims; Véronique Goulet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice |
| Germany | Katharina Alpers, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin |
| Greece | Yanis Tselentis, Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Geographical Medicine, University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine, Heraklion |
| Ireland | Darina O’Flanagan, HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin |
| Italy | Wilma Buffolano, Perinatal Infection Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Federico II University of Naples; Maria Grazia Pompa, Communicable Disease Unit, DG Health Prevention, Ministry of Health, Rome |
| Latvia | Irina Lucenko, Division of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, State Public Health Agency, Riga |
| Lithuania | Bronius Morkunas, Centre for Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Vilnius |
| Malta | Tanya Melillo Fenech, Disease Surveillance Unit, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Msida |
| Netherlands | Laetitia M. Kortbeek, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening (LIS) National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven |
| Norway | Hans Blystad, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo |
| Poland | Malgorzata Sadkowska-Todys, Laboratory of Zoonoses, Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw |
| Portugal | Judite Catarino, General Health Directorate, Lisbon |
| Romania | Adriana Pistol, General Department of Public Health, Service of Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health and Family, Bucharest |
| Scotland | Lynda Browning, Zoonoses Section, Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow |
| Slovakia | Maria Avdicova, Department of Epidemiology, Regional Institute of Public Health, Baska Bystrica |
| Slovenia | Jernej Logar, Institute of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, Ljubljana |
| Sweden | Johan Lindh, Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Water, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna |
| Switzerland | Karim Boubaker, Infectious Diseases Section, Division of Communicable Diseases, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Public Health Direction, Bern |
| Countries that were asked but did not participate in the survey | |
| Albania | Eduard Kakarriqi, Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, Rruga |
| Croatia | Ira Gjenero-Margan, Croatian Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Zagreb |
| Hungary | Márta Melles, ‘Johan Béla’ National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest |
| Luxembourg | Robert Hemmer, National service of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Macedonia | Kristin Vasilevska, Medical Faculty Skopje, University ‘Sv. Kiril i Metodij’ Institute of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Skopje |
| Spain | Luiza Sanchez Serrano, Sección de Sistema de Información Microbiológica, Vigilancia de Salud Pública, National Centre of Edpidemiology, Hospital Carlos III, Madrid |
| Serbia-Montenegro | Danica Masanovic, Sanitary Inspection of the Ministry of Health of Montenegro, Podgorica |