External Quality Assessment of Molecular Typing of Salmonella, STEC and Listeria

Beskrivning

The scope of this call is the provision of EQA schemes to support molecular typing-enhanced surveillance of Salmonella (Lot 1), STEC (Lot 2) and L. monocytogenes (Lot 3) The overall objectives include: 1) Improve harmonisation of the typing methods and typing capability within the public health laboratories of the EU/EEA and the EU enlargement (candidate and potential candidate) countries; 2) Promote production and submission of high quality molecular typing data to TESSy; 3) Provide support to laboratories failing to obtain correct results or facing issues; 4) Support early threat detection capability for emerging strains and multi-country FWD outbreaks.