External quality assessments (EQA) are an essential part of any laboratory-based surveillance system, allowing for the … deployment of resources and training where necessary. An EQA scheme for antimicrobial susceptibility testing in Neisseria …

External quality assessment (EQA) is an essential part of any laboratory-based surveillance system, allowing for the … deployment of resources and training where necessary. An EQA scheme for antimicrobial susceptibility testing in Neisseria …

This report presents the results of the fourth round of the external quality assessment (EQA-4) scheme for typing of … Listeria monocytogenes organised for laboratories in the Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net). Since …

In June and July 2015, an influenza virus antiviral susceptibility external quality assessment (EQA) was held for … Network for Human Influenza (ERLI-Net; previously called CNRL) since the European Influenza Surveillance Network (EISN) was … performance, to provide information for the entire network on capacity (i.e. the number of laboratories having the capability to …

antiviral drugs. The objective of this External Quality Assessment (EQA) is to strengthen the capacity for genomic epidemiology … relevant for public health activities, i.e. consensus sequence generation and quality control, clustering and classification of … according to their expected quality status. For the consensus generation of SARS-CoV-2 genomes, issues were mostly related to …

-epidemic periods but may be greater than 30% for first-year university students. N. meningitidis accounts for morbidity and mortality … within the cases and may result in sequelae. In addition, it may be responsible for more unusual presentations, such as …, and to act in outbreaks), surveillance for vaccination purposes, and the estimation of the burden of meningococcal disease …

and complementary to clinical diagnosis, it is essential that all European countries have access to capacity for … quality assessments (EQAs) to continuously enhance and strengthen laboratory-based surveillance capacity. EQAs are an … despatch in 2013 for the laboratory diagnosis of diphtheria under the auspices of EDSN. A total of 32 countries, including …

External quality assessment (EQA) is part of quality management systems (QMS) and evaluates performance of laboratories …, by an outside agency, on material that is supplied specifically for the purpose. ECDC's disease-specific networks … organise a series of EQAs for EU/EEA countries. In some specific networks, non-EU/EEA countries are also involved in the EQA …

External quality assurance (EQA) is part of quality management systems (QMS) and evaluates performance of laboratories …, by an outside agency, on material that is supplied specifically for the purpose. ECDC's disease specific networks … organise a series of EQA activities for EU/EEA countries. In some specific networks, non-EU/EEA countries are also involved in …