2023

Presentation:

• Evaluation of regional and local laboratories capacities for detection and characterisation of Salmonella and Campylobacter (pdf)

Programme:

• Agenda (pdf)

Presentations: October 23 (Day 1)

• Welcome and Introduction (pdf)
• Epidemiological investigation on foodborne outbreaks in Denmark (available upon request)
• WGS-based subtyping methods and nomenclature (pdf)
• Cluster detection and interpretation using cgMLST and SNP analysis (pdf)
• Integration of AMR into surveillance and outbreak investigation (pdf)
• Introduction to exercises: Tabletop exercises combined with WGS cluster and AMR profile analysis on provided data (pdf)

Presentations: October 27 (Day 5)

• Wrap-up of the exercises/group work (available upon request)
• One Health status on Campylobacter in Denmark (pdf)
• EU level surveillance using EpiPulse molecular typing tool (pdf)
• Next workshop (pdf)

Additional materials:

Danish Questionnaire Salmonella (pdf)
Danish Questionnaire Campylobacter (pdf)

Programme:

• Agenda Network meeting 2023 (pdf)

Presentations:

Session 1: Project overview

• Welcome – meet and greet/Project activities, overview of first 2 years, Eva Møller Nielsen, SSI, Denmark (pdf)
• Evaluation of project activities, Egle Kudirkiene, SSI, Denmark (pdf)
• EQA1-WGS-AMR and RingTrial1-WGS-AMR, Malgorzata Ligowska-Marzeta, SSI, Denmark (available upon request) 

Session 2: Update from DG Sante and ECDC

• Update from DG SANTE, Julia Langer, DG SANTE (available upon request)
• ECDC strategy on using WGS for AMR surveillance, Cecilia Jernberg, ECDC (pdf)
• Reporting of WGS data for AMR – how to do it, analyses, outputs in EpiPulse, Therese Westrell and Erik Alm, ECDC (pdf)
• EQA8-AST, Jeppe Boel, SSI (pdf)

Session 3: Exchange of experience 

• The Establishment of the Irish Campylobacter Reference Laboratory Service and Results from 2022 Annual Data, Tee Keat Teoh, Ireland (pdf)
• Implementing WGS-based surveillance of Salmonella and Campylobacter in Finland, Marianne Gunell, Finland (pdf)
• WGS and bioinformatics workflow for Campylobacter sp. surveillance in France, Quentin Jehanne, France (available upon request)
• The implementation of ISO accredited bioinformatic pipelines for AMR detection and how to report? Maaike van den Beld, The Netherlands (pdf)

Session 5: National capacity building

• Model protocol & Overview of priority countries work, Egle Kudirkiene, SSI, Denmark (pdf)
• First experience of using NGS for Salmonella characterization in Latvia during FWD AMR-ReflabCap project, Oksana Savicka, Latvia (pdf)
• Introducing WGS for Salmonella and Campylobacter at Mater Dei Hospital, Malta, Rodianne Abela, Malta (pdf)
• Priority panel discussio ECDC (pdf)

Session 6: Cross-sector collaboration 

• EURL-Campylobacter: Whole genome sequencing and cluster analysis of Campylobacter, Ásgeir Ástvaldsson, SVA (pdf)
• EURL-STEC: ARIES platform and Inter EURLs Working Group on NGS, Federica Gigliucci, ISS (pdf)
• Experience on cross-sector collaboration, Denmark, Susanne Schjørring, SSI, Denmark (pdf)
• Outbreak caused by CPO in medicine, Henrik Hasman, SSI, Denmark (available upon request)

Presentations:

•  FWD AMR-RefLabCap webinar T2.5 (pdf)

Presentations:

•  FWD AMR-RefLabCap-How to prepare an EQA-14. February 2023 (available upon request)

Presentations:

•  EQA1-WGS-AMR and the RingTrial1 (pdf)

Programme:

• Agenda 3rd workshop (pdf)

Presentation:

• Recap mapping exercise (pdf)
• Mapping data collection and analysis (pdf)
• Mapping data interpretation (pdf)
• Mapping data dissemination (pdf)