The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) will be changing its name to the New Zealand Institute for Public Health and Forensic Science (PHF Science) on 1 July 2025. The new website address will be www.phfscience.nz as of this date. Visitors will automatically be redirected to the new address, but we would appreciate you checking and updating any links and bookmarks after this change.
Until 2005 hospital and community laboratories were requested to refer all isolations of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriacae to ESR for confirmation and further characterisation. Annual summaries of confirmed isolates are available.