National Enteric Surveillance Program (NESP)

The NESP is a national surveillance program designed to provide timely analysis and reporting of laboratory confirmed enteric disease cases in Canada. The NESP has been in operation since April 1997 and provides weekly reports to stakeholders across the country.

NESP attempts to provide an up-to-date picture of the current status of major enteric infectious diseases in the human population such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, Shigella, Vibrio, Verotoxigenic E. coli, Yersinia and more recently intestinal parasitic organisms such as Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Entamoeba and Cyclospora as well as enteric viruses such as Norovirus and Rotavirus.

Our Partners

The program is jointly administered by the National Laboratory for Enteric Pathogens (NLEP), National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) and the Division of Enteric, Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (CIDPC).

Stakeholders include directors and staff of provincial health laboratories as well as federal and provincial epidemiologists, researchers and other public health professionals.

Our Research

Weekly Surveillance reports are available to recognized provincial and federal public health professionals. If you are interested in receiving the weekly surveillance reports and accessing the on-line data, please contact: info@nml.ca

Reports

Contact Us

National Enteric Surveillance Program
Enteric Diseases Program
National Microbiology Laboratory
Public Health Agency of Canada
Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health

1015 Arlington Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3E 3R2

Telephone: (204) 789-2000
Fax: (204) 789-5012
E-mail: Walter_Demczuk@phac-aspc.gc.ca