Salmonella in Europe: Enter-net report, July-September 2001

This report gives details of the number of isolates identified by the national reference laboratories in countries collaborating with Enter-net, the international surveillance network for salmonella and Escherichia coli, in the third quarter of 2001 and incorporated in the Enter-net salmonella database. The total number of human salmonella isolates reported between July and September 2001 is 36 977. Of these, 32 596 (88.1%) were S. Enteritidis, S. Typhimurium, S. Virchow, or S. Hadar. Seventeen countries have supplied data, 16 of these in electronic form.