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. 2018 Dec 12;16(12):e05500. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5500
Subject For more information see
Humans Surveillance Atlas http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx
EU case definitions https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/infectious-diseases-public-health/surveillance-and-disease-data/eu-case-definitions
Food‐ and waterborne diseases and zoonoses Programme https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/about-us/who-we-are/disease-programmes/food-and-waterborne-diseases-and-zoonoses-programme
European Food‐ and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD‐Net) https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/about-us/partnerships-and-networks/disease-and-laboratory-networks/fwd-net
World Health Organization – E. coli Fact sheet http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs125/en/
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/
Food, animals EFSA Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)‐ Monitoring of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) and identification of human‐pathogenic VTEC types http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/579
Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)‐ Monitoring of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) and identification of human‐pathogenic VTEC types http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/579
VTEC seropathotype and scientific criteria on pathogenicity assessment http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3138
JEMRA FAO/WHO report: Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and food: attribution, characterisation and monitoring http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/CA0032EN
Public health advice on prevention of diarrhoeal illness with special focus on Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC), also called verotoxin‐producing E. coli (VTEC) or enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/110611
Reg. (EC 209/2013) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32013R0209
EURL VTEC webpage: laboratory methods for VTEC/STEC detection and typing http://www.iss.it/vtec/index.php?lang=2&anno=2017&tipo=3
EURL VTEC webpage: Focus on STEC facts http://www.iss.it/vtec/index.php?lang=2&anno=2017&tipo=20#