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European surveillance of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infections - surveillance protocol version 2.4
ECDC publishes a protocol developed for the surveillance of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infections (CDI) to address the lack of standardised surveillance of CDI in EU Member States.
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A review on the eco-epidemiology and clinical management of human granulocytic anaplasmosis and its agent in Europe
Matei, I.A., Estrada-Peña, A., Cutler, S.J., Vayssier-Taussat, M., Varela-Castro, L., Potkonjak, A., Zeller, H., Mihalca, A.D.
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A governance framework for development and assessment of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance
Anderson, M., Schulze, K., Cassini, A., Plachouras, D., Mossialos, E.
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Application of a new methodology and R package reveals a high burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in Germany compared to the average in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2011 to 2012
Zacher, B., Haller, S., Willrich, N., Walter, J., Abu Sin, M., Cassini, A., Plachouras, D., Suetens, C., Behnke, M., Gastmeier, P., Wieler, L.H., Eckmanns, T.
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Antimicrobial use in European long-term care facilities: results from the third point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, 2016 to 2017
Ricchizzi, E., Latour, K., Kärki, T., Buttazzi, R., Jans, B., Moro, M.L., Nakitanda, O.A., Plachouras, D., Monnet, D.L., Suetens, C., Kinross, P., The Halt Study Group
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Laboratory procedures for diagnosis and typing of human Clostridium difficile infection
The aim of this document is to support Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) surveillance in Europe with appropriate microbiological standardised procedures, and can be used by microbiologists, infectious diseases specialists and infection prevention control specialists.
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Healthcare-associated infections: Clostridium difficile infections - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016
In 2016, 20 EU/EEA countries reported CDI data to ECDC for 593 surveillance periods from 556 hospitals.
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How to: Surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections.
Krutova, M., Kinross, P., Barbut, F., Hajdu, A., Wilcox, M.H., Kuijper, E.J., Allerberger, F., Delmée, M., Van Broeck, J., Vatcheva-Dobrevska, R., Dobreva, E., Matica, B., Pieridou, D., Krůtová, M., Nyč, O., Olesen, B., Märtin, P., Mentula, S., Barbut, F., Arvand, M., von Müller, L., Papaparaskevas, J., Pászti, J., Hajdu, Á., Gudnason, T., Burns, K., Spigaglia, P., Vulāne, K., Debacker, M., Scicluna, E., Melillo, T., Kuijper, E.J., Crobach, M.T., Kacelnik, O., Astrup, E., Pituch, H., Oleastro, M., Wiuff, C., Coia, J., Nováková, E., Kolman, J., Grilc, E., Rupnik, M., Bouza, E., Reigadas, E., Åkerlund, T., Tschudin-Sutter, S., Wilcox, M.H., Fairley, D., Morris, T.
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Control of infectious diseases in the era of European clinical microbiology laboratory consolidation: New challenges and opportunities for the patient and for public health surveillance
Vandenberg, O., Kozlakidis, Z., Schrenzel, J., Struelens, M.J., Breuer, J.
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European surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections - surveillance protocol version 2.3
This updated protocol prescribes the methodology, and provides the data collection tools required to achieve the objectives of European surveillance of CDIs.