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Volume 9, Number 9—September 2003
Research

Early Identification of Common-Source Foodborne Virus Outbreaks in Europe

Marion Koopmans*Comments to Author , Harry Vennema*, Herre Heersma*, Elisabeth van Strien*, Yvonne van Duynhoven*, David Brown†, Marc Reacher†, Ben Lopman†, and for the European Consortium on Foodborne Viruses
Author affiliations: *National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; †Public Health Laboratory Service, London, United Kingdom

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Table 2

Number of entries in the database by year of detection for selected viruses, as determined by reverse line blot typinga

N HAV SLV ASV NLV NLV capsid NLV pol NLV cap and pol RLB animal
Not dated
 364
 69
 4
 7
 284
 152
 119
 9
 1
 2
1989 and before
 102
 68
 2
 -
 32
 15
 23
 7
1990
 43
 31
 1
 -
 11
 7
 10
 6
1991
 5
 -
 -
 -
 5
 2
 5
 2
1992
 11
 -
 2
 -
 9
 3
 7
 3
1993
 21
 -
 2
 -
 19
 14
 26
 11
1994
 45
 -
 1
 -
 44
 20
 38
 14
1995
 49
 -
 -
 2
 47
 15
 41
 9
1996
 122
 -
 1
 4
 117
 18
 100
 2
1997
 122
 -
 -
 1
 121
 8
 117
 5
 3
 6
1998
 158
 -
 2
 6
 152
 19
 130
 11
 6
 13
1999
 531
 44
 2
 26
 485
 39
 366
 32
 129
 7
2000
 446
 40
 2
 -
 404
 61
 380
 41
 26
 6
2001
 419
 5
 2
 2
 410
 52
 396
 52
 -
 -
2002 155 - - - 155 3 155 3 -

aHAV, hepatitis A virus; SLV, Sapporo-like virus; ASV, astrovirus; NLV, Norwalk-like viruses.

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1The Netherlands: M. Koopmans, H. Vennena, Y. van Duynhoven, D. E. van Strien, W. van de Poel, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment; Bilthoven; Finland: C-H von Bonsdorff, L. Maunula, Helsinki University: Denmark: B. Böttiger, K. Mølbak, F.X. Hanon, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen; Sweden; L. Svensson, K-O Hedlund, Maria Thorvag, Juan Carrique-Mas, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna; UK: D. Brown, M. Reacher, J.Green, B. Lopman, Public Health Laboratory Service, London; Germany: E. Schreier, H. Gelderblom, Andrea Ammon, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin; Spain: A. Sanchez-Faquier, G. Hernández-Pezzi, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid; A. Bosch, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona; J. Buesa, Universitat de Valencia; France: F. LeGuyader, IFREMER, Nantes; P. Pothier, E. Kohli, Laboratoire de Virologie, Dijon; Italy: F. Ruggeri, D. DeMedici, Instituo di Superiore di Sanitá, Rome. In addition, outside the formal project group, M. Poljsak (Slovenia), and G. Szücs (Hungary) actively participate in the project.

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