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.