Jenssen, Gaute Reier http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6973-4999
Veneti, Lamprini
Lange, Heidi
Vold, Line
Naseer, Umaer
Brandal, Lin T.
Article History
Received: 25 October 2018
Accepted: 2 January 2019
First Online: 24 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All STEC cases and strains are routinely notified to and collected at the NIPH for disease surveillance, outbreak detection and further characterisation, respectively. This study is based on data from notifications to MSIS and bacterial isolates from the strain collection at the NRL. We present summarised data on demographic, clinical and surveillance aspects. The Norwegian Communicable Disease Control Act and its companying regulations oblige the NIPH to perform national surveillance of communicable diseases, including STEC infections. In accordance with this, the present study and its potential findings were considered as assessment of the surveillance and guidelines provided by the NIPH. This qualifies as quality control of one of the imposed tasks of the NIPH. Accordingly, ethical approval from a Regional Ethical Committee was not required and informed consent was not required from the patients involved.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.