作者
EJ Kuijper, F Barbut, JS Brazier, N Kleinkauf, T Eckmanns, ML Lambert, D Drudy, F Fitzpatrick, C Wiuff, DJ Brown, JE Coia, H Pituch, P Reichert, J Even, J Mossong, AF Widmer, KE Olsen, F Allerberger, DW Notermans, M Delmée, B Coignard, M Wilcox, B Patel, R Frei, E Nagy, E Bouza, M Marin, T Åkerlund, A Virolainen-Julkunen, O Lyytikäinen, S Kotila, A Ingebretsen, B Smyth, P Rooney, IR Poxton, DL Monnet
发表日期
2008/7/31
期刊
Eurosurveillance
卷号
13
期号
31
页码范围
18942
出版商
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
简介
Outbreaks of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) with increased severity, high relapse rate and significant mortality have been related to the emergence of a new, hypervirulent C. difficile strain in North America and Europe. This emerging strain is referred to as PCR ribotype 027 (Type 027). Since 2005, individual countries have developed surveillance studies about the spread of type 027. C. difficile Type 027 has been reported in 16 European countries. It has been responsible for outbreaks in Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland). It has also been detected in Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Poland and Spain. Three countries experienced imported patients with CDI due to Type 027 who acquired the infection abroad. The antimicrobial resistance pattern is changing, and …
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