ECDC publishes EQA schemes to support European surveillance of Legionnaires’ disease

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published external quality assessment (EQA) schemes to support European surveillance of Legionnaires’ disease, presenting an analysis of participants’ results for the 2020 to 2021 EQA exercises in EU and EEA countries.

Results cover the detection and isolation, identification, enumeration and quantification of Legionella spp. and the further characterisation of L. pneumophila, by serogrouping and sequence-based typing, from both clinical and environmental samples.

Source: ECDC, 14 February 2022