External quality assessments (EQA) are an essential part of any laboratory-based surveillance system, allowing for the monitoring of performance and comparability of results from participating laboratories, identification of potential issues and deployment of resources and training where...

External quality assessment (EQA) is an essential part of any laboratory-based surveillance system, allowing for the monitoring of performance and comparability of results from participating laboratories, identification of potential issues and deployment of resources and training where...

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 2012, the Unit of Foodborne Infections at Statens...

In June and July 2015, an influenza virus antiviral susceptibility external quality assessment (EQA) was held for European reference laboratories. This was the third antiviral EQA panel distributed by the European Reference Laboratory Network for Human Influenza (ERLI-Net; previously called...

SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses are pathogens of major public health impact. Surveillance has played a vital role in monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic as well as seasonal influenza, including public health actions such as updates on vaccines and antiviral drugs. The objective of this External...

Neisseria meningitidis is the major worldwide cause of meningitis and rapidly fatal sepsis in healthy individuals. The risk of meningococcal disease is higher among those with complement deficiencies, asplenia and other underlying conditions. N. meningitidis is the only agent among the major...

Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease affecting the upper respiratory tract and occasionally the skin, caused by the action of diphtheria toxin produced by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Effective control of such an...

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...

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...