Research and analysis

Common gastrointestinal infections, England and Wales: laboratory reports weeks 49 to 52, 2014

Updated 9 January 2015

Laboratory reports Number of reports received Total reports Cumulative totals
  49/14 50/14 51/14 52/14 49-52/14 1-52/14 1-52/13
Campylobacter 932 802 723 315 2772 58722 58742
E. coli O157 * 10 7 3 5 25 891 770
Salmonella ** 107 80 18 5 210 6672 7255
Shigella sonnei 18 17 8 3 46 1088 986
Rotavirus 24 31 18 11 84 4315 14943
Norovirus 158 232 189 85 664 5734 6922
Cryptosporidium 79 56 44 18 197 3587 3481
Giardia 71 57 46 23 197 3779 3584

Note: Introduction of a new laboratory data reporting system (SGSS) after 1 December 2014 means that direct comparisons between the above data and those generated by the previous system (LabBase2) may not be valid.

* Verocytotoxin producing isolates (data from PHE’s Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit (GBRU))

** Data from GBRU