Eurosurveillance - Volume 2, Issue 11, 01 November 1997

Salmonella typhimurium definitive phage type (DT) 104 (= DT104) with chromosomally-encoded resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulphonamides, and tetracyclines (= R-type ACSSuT) has become increasingly common in humans in England and

On 29 August 1996 Ireland's Eastern Health Board (EHB) was informed of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness in a psychiatric hospital in Dublin. Fifty people among 240 members of staff and 183 patients had reportedly fallen ill since 27 August and new

Outbreaks of Salmonella enteritidis associated with raw eggs continue to be common, despite the risk of using raw eggs being well known. In many cases S. enteritidis isaself-limitingillnessbut- particularlyinvery young and very old people - it can be seve

Experts met in Copenhagen on 19 and 20 November 1996 to discuss the elimination of measles in Europe. European countries were assigned to four different categories on the basis of a recent survey conducted by the World Health Organization's Regional Offic