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Tools for public health
HelicsWin.Net (HWN)
HelicsWin.Net (also referred to as HWN) is a software application developed for the manual entry of data of the ECDC HAI-Net surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Scientific and technical publications
Large increase in bloodstream infections with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter species during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, EU/EEA, 2020 and 2021
Kinross P., Gagliotti C., Merk H., Plachouras D., Monnet D.L., Högberg L.D., EARSNet Study Group
Scientific and technical publications
Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infections - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016–2017
In 2016–2017, 1 559 hospital surveillance periods were reported, corresponding to >18.3 million patient admissions and >109 million patient-days.
Scientific and technical publications
Point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals – protocol version 6.1
Version 6.1 is the final protocol for the third EU-wide point prevalence survey in acute care hospitals (PPS 2022–2023). It contains important changes compared to protocol version 5.3 (PPS 2016–2017), including on healthcare-associated COVID-19.
Disease data from ECDC Surveillance Atlas - Surgical site infections
The Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases is a tool that interacts with the latest available data about a number of infectious diseases. The interface allows users to interact and manipulate the data to produce a variety of tables and maps.
Epidemiological situation, laboratory capacity and preparedness for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, 2019
Epidemiological situation, laboratory capacity and preparedness for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, 2019
Training resources
E-learning on Antimicrobial Stewardship
This course focuses on antimicrobial stewardship as an approach to address healthcare-associated infections (HAI) resulting from multi-drug resistance organisms in acute care settings.
Scientific and technical publications
Combined clonal and plasmid-mediated outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales, Lithuania, 2019–2020
Combined clonal and plasmid-mediated outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales, Lithuania, 2019–2020
Scientific and technical publications
Epidemiological situation, laboratory capacity and preparedness for carbapenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, 2019
Lötsch, F., Albiger, B., Monnet, D.L., Struelens, M.J., Seifert, H., Kohlenberg, A.
Scientific and technical publications
Genomic epidemiology of emerging ESBL-producing Salmonella Kentucky bla <inf>CTX-M-14b</inf> in Europe
Coipan, C.E., Westrell, T., van Hoek, A.H.A.M., Alm, E., Kotila, S., Berbers, B., de Keersmaecker, S.C.J., Ceyssens, P.-J., Borg, M.L., Chattaway, M., McCormick, J., Dallman, T.J., Franz, E.