Establishing a European network for the diagnosis of &quot;imported&quot; viral diseases (ENIVD)

M Niedrig; B Niklasson; G Lloyd; H Schmitz; B LeGuenno

doi:10.2807/esm.03.07.00108-en

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Establishing a European network for the diagnosis of "imported" viral diseases (ENIVD)
M Niedrig¹ , B Niklasson² , G Lloyd³ , H Schmitz⁴ , B LeGuenno⁵
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Affiliations: ¹ Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany ² Swedish Institute of Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden ³ Centre for Applied Microbiology, Wiltshire, UK ⁴ Bernhard Nocht Institut, Hamburg, Germany ⁵ Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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Citation style for this article: Niedrig M, Niklasson B, Lloyd G, Schmitz H, LeGuenno B. Establishing a European network for the diagnosis of "imported" viral diseases (ENIVD). Euro Surveill. 1998;3(7):pii=108. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.03.07.00108-en

Abstract

The epidemics in recent years of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire and Gabon acted as a reminder that dangerous infections can be imported very quickly into Europe. Meetings on emerging and re-emerging pathogens organised by the World Health Organization