Actualización de los datos sobre la enfermedad asociada a Clostridium difficile debida al ribotipo 027 de RCP en Europa

E J Kuijper; B Coignard; J S Brazier; C Suetens; D Drudy; C Wiuff; H Pituch; P Reichert; F Schneider; A F Widmer; K EP Olsen; F Allerberger; D W Notermans; F Barbut; M Delmée; M Wilcox; A Pearson; B Patel; D J Brown; R Frei; T Akerlund; I R Poxton; Peet Tüll

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Actualización de los datos sobre la enfermedad asociada a Clostridium difficile debida al ribotipo 027 de RCP en Europa
E J Kuijper¹ , B Coignard² , J S Brazier³ , C Suetens⁴ , D Drudy⁵ , C Wiuff⁶ , H Pituch⁷ , P Reichert⁸ , F Schneider⁹ , A F Widmer¹⁰ , K EP Olsen¹¹ , F Allerberger¹² , D W Notermans¹³ , F Barbut¹⁴ , M Delmée¹⁵ , M Wilcox¹⁶ , A Pearson¹⁷ , B Patel¹⁷ , D J Brown¹⁸ , R Frei¹⁹ , T Akerlund²⁰ , I R Poxton²¹ , Peet Tüll²²
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Affiliations: ¹ Center for Infectious Diseases and Department of Ear Nose and Throat diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden ² Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France, au nom des membres du comité éditorial d’Eurosurveillance ³ Anaerobe Reference Laboratory, National Public Health Service of Wales, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom ⁴ Epidemiology section, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium ⁵ Centre for Food Safety, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland ⁶ Health Protection Scotland, Section for Healthcare-Associated Infection and Infection Control, Glasgow, United Kingdom ⁷ Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Warsaw, Poland ⁸ National Health Laboratory , Luxembourg ⁹ Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg ¹⁰ Division of Infectious diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland ¹¹ Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Parasitology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark ¹² Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH, Institut für Veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen, Mödling, Austria ¹³ Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, The Netherlands ¹⁴ Microbiology Laboratory and Infection Control Unit, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France ¹⁵ Microbiology Department, Hôpital Universitaire Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium ¹⁶ Clostridium difficile Ribotyping Network for England (CDRNE), Microbiology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom ¹⁷ Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom ¹⁸ Scottish Salmonella Reference Laboratory (SSRL), Glasgow, Scotland ¹⁹ Microbiology Laboratory, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland ²⁰ SMI, Solna, Sweden ²¹ Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland ²² European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden

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Citation style for this article: Kuijper E J, Coignard B, Brazier J S, Suetens C, Drudy D, Wiuff C, Pituch H, Reichert P, Schneider F, Widmer A F, Olsen K EP, Allerberger F, Notermans D W, Barbut F, Delmée M, Wilcox M, Pearson A, Patel B, Brown D J, Frei R, Akerlund T, Poxton I R, Tüll Peet. Actualización de los datos sobre la enfermedad asociada a Clostridium difficile debida al ribotipo 027 de RCP en Europa. Euro Surveill. 2007;12(6):pii=714. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.12.06.00714-es

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Abstract

Los recientes brotes epidémicos de diarrea asociada a Clostridium difficile (DACD), de mayor intensidad y con una elevada tasa de recidivas y una mortalidad importante, han sido relacionados con la aparición de una nueva cepa hipervirulenta de C. difficile en Norteamérica, Japón y Europa.