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. 2017 Dec 12;15(12):e05077. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.5077
Subject For more information see
Humans ECDC Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases 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
WHO (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 and animals EFSA Scientific Opinion: Monitoring of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) and identification of human pathogenic VTEC types http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/579
EFSA Scientific Opinion: Monitoring of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) and identification of human pathogenic VTEC types http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/579
Molecular typing of VTEC strains isolated from food, feed and animals http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/supporting/pub/en-704
VTEC‐seropathotype and scientific criteria on pathogenicity assessment http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3138
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 (EU Reference Laboratory) VTEC webpage: laboratory methods for VTEC/STEC detection and typing http://www.iss.it/vtec/index.php?lang=2&anno=2017&tipo=3
EURL (EU Reference Laboratory) VTEC webpage: Focus on STEC facts http://www.iss.it/vtec/index.php?lang=2&anno=2017&tipo=20#