After 2011, a proportional rise in the aging population is expected as from 2011 the first post-war ‘baby boomers’ reach the age of 65.

The network was designed as a sentinel active surveillance network involving nurse practitioners and/or elderly care physicians who weekly report infectious diseases in their nursing home. In addition patient material is collected for virological and/or bacteriological surveillance. This design is similar to the design of the Dutch Continuous Morbidity Registration (CMR), a network of general practices initiated in 1970 by The Netherlands Institute of Health Service Research (NIVEL).

Summary of the keypoints and results of the surveillance.

Sentinel Surveillance Network on Infectious diseases in nursing homes (SNIV): Results from weekly incidence surveillance

The measles epidemic in the Netherlands provides an opportunity for research. This page contains information about two studies, BMR -0 and BMR-1.

The Noronet report (april 2013) provides an update on new norovirus nomenclature based on polymerase and capsid sequences, which we already applied in the NoroNet database. Furthermore, we report GII diversity and trends, especially the distribution and variation of GII.4 Sydney_2012, and shellfish outbreaks.

A group of norovirus experts within NoroNet has proposed a phylogeny based classification of noroviruses for both ORF1 and VP1 (ORF2) genotypes and a standardized strain nomenclature (Archives of Virology, in press).

These are results of the contribution of foods (NEVO-codes) to the intake of minerals. Results are also subdivided into age, age by gender, educational level or BMI category.