Linelist Tool for data entry and analysis: www.rki.de/linelisttool

The Linelist Tool was developed for competent public health authorities in Germany to offer them assistance in the analytical epidemiological investigation of disease outbreaks, especially those with a single place of exposure (“local outbreaks”). A brief description of the tool including the underlying strategic concept for the investigation of foodborne outbreaks has been published in Eurosurveillance.

The tool was successfully employed in the investigation of a large multistate outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis which occurred in Germany in 2012.

It is distributed under a Creative Commons license, and an English Excel version for download can be found below.

• Linelist Tool (xlsx, 314 KB, Datei ist nicht barrierefrei)