Research and analysis

Common gastrointestinal infections, England and Wales: laboratory reports weeks 31 to 34, 2017

Updated 12 January 2018

Laboratory reports Number of reports received Total reports Cumulative totals
  31/17 32/17 33/17 34/17 31-34/17 1-34/17 1-34/16
Campylobacter 1381 1244 1213 1260 5098 36681 35706
E. coli O157 * 18 22 6 13 59 297 422
Salmonella ** 200 198 274 248 920 5103 4820
Shigella sonnei 16 10 23 15 64 468 491
Shigella flexneri 7 9 5 10 31 302 343
Rotavirus 22 26 24 28 100 3286¥ 1856
Norovirus 48 40 36 39 163 3136 5137
Cryptosporidium 63 93 96 111 363 2199 2576
Giardia 77 76 98 120 371 2889 2656

* 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.