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- First annual Meeting Report: meeting of the European Diphtheria Surveillance Network, Stockholm, 17 March 2011Publication . European Center for Disease Control and PreventionOn 17 March 2011, 37 disease and surveillance experts met in Stockholm for the first annual meeting of the European Diphtheria Surveillance Network (EDSN). Discussed topics included the lack of appropriate treatment with diphtheria antitoxin, the increasing susceptibility to the disease of older people, and the importance of the resumption of seroprevalence studies.
- Second Annual Meeting of the Invasive Bacterial Diseases Surveillance Network in Europe: meeting reportPublication . European Center for Disease Control and PreventionThe invasive bacterial diseases (IBD) surveillance network is coordinated by the surveillance unit at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). During the meeting, held over 16–17 November 2010, an overview of general surveillance—including TESSy activities—was presented, ranging from a presentation on the ECDC programme and goals for the coming years to development of the new IBD metadataset in TESSy and the progress of laboratory surveillance activities in the EU.