Salmonellosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019

Monitoring
10 Jan 2023
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europe
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2019, retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 5 October 2020.
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Salmonellosis. In: ECDC. Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019. Stockholm: ECDC; 2023.

Salmonellosis is the second most commonly reported gastrointestinal infection, and an important cause of food-borne outbreaks in the EU/EEA. In 2019, 89 066 laboratory-confirmed cases of salmonellosis were reported, out of which 139 were fatal.