On December 10th, EU Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis (Animal health Institute – ANSES) organised its 13th annual Workshop. Thirty-three countries joined the meeting, with total number of 66 participants.

The topics of the day mainly were serological analyses, which also included an intra-laboratory trial to evaluate the serological techniques (on sera) and comparison of different ELISA kits for diagnostics of Brucella spp. in pigs (suidaes). The meeting included three external (keynote) presentations, addressing the original cases recently described: 1) Evolution of ovine contagious epididymitis in Aragon province (Clara Marin, CITA, Spain); 2) The case of the cow super spreader of vaccinal strain RB51, and link to the human contamination in the USA since 2017 (Rebekah Tiller, CDC, USA); 3) Presentation of the human case of infection with Brucella inopinata in France (Anne Kériel, CNR Brucella, France).

Our big thanks to Marie-France Devaux who took care of all administrative work and logistics, as well as Lisa Laboutière, Ludivine Perrot, Fathia Petot-Bottin et Maëline Ribeiro (technical experts in the Brucella team), who contribute daily to the realisation of the scientific and technical program alongside the scientists (Vitomir Djokic, Acacia Ferreira Vicente, Luca Freddi, Guillaume Girault and Claire Ponsart).