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Simultaneous increase of Cryptosporidium infections in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany in late summer season, 2012.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 10 Jan 2013
Fournet N, Deege M P, Urbanus A T, Nichols G, Rosner B M, Chalmers R M, Gorton R, Pollock K G, van der Giessen J W, Wever P C, Dorigo-Zetsma J W, Mulder B, Mank T G, Overdevest I, Kusters J G, van Pelt W, Kortbeek L M
Abstract excerpt
Starting August 2012, an increase in Cryptosporidium infections was reported in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany. It represented a 1.8 to 4.9-fold increase compared to previous years. Most samples were C. hominis IbA10G2. A case–control study was performed in the Netherlands but did not identify an endemic source. A case–case study in the north of England found travel abroad to be the most common...
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