Eurosurveillance - Volume 4, Issue 10, 01 October 1999

The extent to which sterile medical devices marked ‘for single-use’ are reused was surveyed recently in 100 hospitals in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The same method was used in a survey of Danish hospitals two years earlier. This has enabled us

Entamoeba histolytica, a protozoan parasite, occurs worldwide and 12% of the world's population are estimated to be infected. The prevalence of infection varies between 1% in industrialised countries to between 50% and 80% in tropical countries, where tra

In 1997 the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health established a reference laboratory for enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli at the federal public health laboratory in Innsbruck. The reference laboratory investigates sources of infection causing food poison