Paweł Stefanoff, Natalia Parda, Aleksandra Polkowska, Fortunato D’Ancona, Pedro Anda, Annapaola Rizzoli, Rachel Escudero, Elena Kocianová, Oliver Donoso-Mantke, Maria Kazimirova, Emoke Ferenczi, Luisa Sánchez Serrano, Joanna Zajkowska, Sarah Randolph.
Epidemiological situation of rickettsioses in EU/EFTA countries. Published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, 2013.
978-92-9193-509-3
When the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published a call for tender to produce this guidance, I contacted several experts in the different networks and we decided to apply together. For the first time I was leading an international collaborative project of this size. We developed a survey on existing surveillance systems for tick-borne rickettsioses, and asked countries to provide surveillance data. We found out that data on rickettsioses were quite sparse, probably reflecting insufficient surveillance. Anyway this was a useful overview for countries and European institutions.