Eurosurveillance - Volume 1, Issue 3, 01 March 1996

Small round structured viruses (SRSV) are known to cause epidemic gastroenteritis in institutions and account for 54% of person to person outbreaks and 6% of foodborne outbreaks in England and Wales. Infection is commonly transmitted from person to person

Portugal built its first tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Funchal, Madeira, in 1862. In 1899, Queen Amelia proposed and sponsored a private foundation, with clinics, hospitals, sanatoriums and preventoria, where relatives and other contacts of TB patients we

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is primarily caused by HIV-1. Another type of virus, HIV-2, is found mainly in certain West African countries In Europe, most of the cases of HIV-2 infection described have been in people from Africa. The objective of this study was

Continuing uncertainty about the extent of the problem posed by Lyme borreliosis, the risk of serious sequelae, and unsatisfactory laboratory techniques to investigate it have led to the collaboration of researchers from 12 European Union (EU) countries a