ECDC: Molecular surveillance system relies on labs to produce comparable results

A number of technical issues reducing the quality of typing results have been identified in EU labs, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control . The seventh round of the external quality assessment scheme for typing of Shiga toxin/verocytotoxin-producing E. coli was organised for 30 labs in the Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses network .