Time trends of positivity rates from foodborne pathogen testing in Switzerland, 2003 to 2012.

CONCLUSIONS: Both positivity rates and notification rates showed increasing trends for Campylobacter and decreasing trends for Salmonella, suggesting that these trends reflect changes in disease epidemiology at population level. The continuous assessment of positivity rates remains important to appropriately interpret changes observed in the notification system especially considering the increasing use of multiplex polymerase chain reaction test panels where multiple pathogens are tested simultaneously. PMID: 29282700 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research