Researchers from Germany, Belgium, and Spain have presented their work on solving outbreaks and pathogen-specific questions at a European meeting.

The European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) was organized by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Since 2020, integrated genomic surveillance (IGS) has been

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Whole genome sequencing of Salmonella Chester in Norway has uncovered a possible outbreak during summer 2016 related to Greece.

At the time, Norway saw an increase in Salmonella Chester cases among travelers to Greece. No infections were reported in Europe outside Norway. Results indicated an outbreak related to travel to
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