Salmonella - just the tip of the iceberg

Salmonellosis Just the tip of the iceberg ecoc EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE POEVENINER AND CONTRNTION Salmonella infections are among the most common food-borne infections affecting humans in the EU. However, the reported case numbers are much lower than the actual number of circulating infections. ECDC has developed a tool that estimates the frequency of exposure to Salmonella, which is much closer to the true incidence of Salmonella in the population than the reported number. For more information visit http://bit.ly/seroincidence-tool 12 13 10 The number of yearly reported cases (white) is represented by the tip of the iceberg, while the estimated frequency of exposure to Salmonella (orange) is shown as the rest of the iceberg. 1 Ireland 35o 720 000 2 Romania 400 7 480 000 3 Greece 48o 2 280 000 4 Denmark 1 680 420 000 5 Austria 1 8o0 1000 000 6 Finland 2 800 370 000 7 Spain 3 400 28 460 000 8 Sweden 4 o00 510 000 9 France 6 300 24 020 000 10 Italy 6 520 12 780 000 11 Netherlands 6 590 2 400 000 12 United Kingdom 10 400 5 900 000 3 Poland 16 00 20 980 000 Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten thousand. For some countries, cases were reported by year, and for others it is an average of two or more years depending on the years of serum collections. Original article: Mølbak K, Simonsen J, Jørgensen C, Krogfelt K, Falkenhorst G, Ethelberg S, et al. Seroincidence of human infections with non-typhoid Salmonella compared with data from public health surveillance and food animals in 13 European countries. Clin Infect Dis. (2014) 59 (11): 1599-1606.