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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 3

Number of entries in the database by country of submissiona

Country No. of entries HAV ASV NLV SLV
Argentina
 9
9
Austria
 17
17
Canada
 20
20
Switzerland
 23
23
Czech Republic
 1
 1
Germany
 167
 1
166
Spain
 33
 18
15
Finland
 90
90
France
 216
24
 185
 7
Great Britain
 509
 1
505
 3
Ghana
 2
2
Hong Kong
 7
7
Japan
 363
360
 3
Korea
 1
1
Mexico
 1
1
Netherlands
 743
 87
 24
 632
Norway
 13
13
New Zealand
 5
5
Russia
 8
8
South Africa
 9
5
 4
Sweden
 101
100
 1
Turkey
 1
 1
United States 67 6 59 2

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

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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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