This report presents the results of the fifth round of the external quality assessment scheme for typing of verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC) (further EQA-5) funded by ECDC. The EQA-5 was carried out from January 2014 to May 2014 and included the following methods: pulsed-field gel electrop...
This report (EQA-6) presents the results of the sixth round of the external quality assessment scheme for typing of verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC) funded by ECDC. The EQA-6 was carried out from January to April 2015 and included the following methods: pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PF...
Twenty-eight public health national reference laboratories from 28 EU/EEA countries signed up for the fourth international external quality assessment (EQA) scheme on typing of VTEC organised by ECDC. Seventy-one per cent (20 out of 28) of the laboratories participated in the pulsed-field gel el...
