Research and analysis

Common gastrointestinal infections, England and Wales: laboratory reports weeks 27 to 30, 2017

Updated 12 January 2018

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Laboratory reports Number of reports received Total reports Cumulative totals
  27/17 28/17 29/17 28/17 27-30/17 1-30/17 1-30/16
Campylobacter 1724 1487 1464 1444 6119 31423 30044
E. coli O157 * 39 17 9 13 78 255 373
Salmonella ** 194 226 200 200 820 4148 3985
Shigella sonnei 18 12 13 16 59 402 428
Shigella flexneri 17 9 5 4 35 264 295
Rotavirus 29 36 19 28 112 3169¥ 1691
Norovirus 35 41 63 38 177 2959 4953
Cryptosporidium 66 70 54 69 259 1824 2116
Giardia 121 91 85 90 387 2502 2260

* Verocytotoxin-producing isolates (data from PHE’s VTEC Enhanced Surveillance System).

** Data from PHE’s Second Generation Surveillance System (SGSS). These data include salmonella infections for which no serovar result is available (ie non-serotyped salmonella spp.) and which therefore are not directly comparable to data reported before 2015.

¥ This is, in part, due to higher numbers earlier in this season raising the cumulative number of laboratory reports. However laboratory reports for the most recent weeks are comparable to those seen in the other post-vaccine seasons.

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