Euro Surveill. Simultaneous increase of Cryptosporidium infections in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany in late summer season, 2012

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Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 2, 10 January 2013

Rapid communications

Simultaneous increase of Cryptosporidium infections in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany in late summer season, 2012

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N Fournet<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>, M P Deege<SUP>3</SUP><SUP>,4</SUP><SUP>,5</SUP>, A T Urbanus<SUP>1</SUP>, G Nichols<SUP>6</SUP>, B M Rosner<SUP>7</SUP>, R M Chalmers<SUP>8</SUP>, R Gorton<SUP>9</SUP>, K G Pollock<SUP>10</SUP>, J W B van der Giessen<SUP>1</SUP>, P C Wever<SUP>11</SUP>, J W Dorigo-Zetsma<SUP>12</SUP>, B Mulder<SUP>13</SUP>, T G Mank<SUP>14</SUP>, I Overdevest<SUP>15</SUP>, J G Kusters<SUP>5</SUP>, W van Pelt<SUP>1</SUP>, L M Kortbeek ()<SUP>1</SUP>

1. Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
3. These authors contributed equally to this work
4. Saltro Diagnostic Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands
5. Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
6. Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections Department, Health Protection Agency Colindale, London, United Kingdom
7. Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany
8. Cryptosporidium Reference Unit, Public Health Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom
9. Health Protection Agency, North East Region, Newcastle, United Kingdom
10. Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
11. Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, ?s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
12. Central Laboratory for Bacteriology and Serology, Tergooi ziekenhuizen, Hilversum/Almere, the Netherlands
13. Laboratory of Medical Microbiology and Public Health, Enschede, the Netherlands
14. Regional Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Public Health, Haarlem, the Netherlands
15. Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, St Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: Fournet N, Deege MP, Urbanus AT, Nichols G, Rosner BM, Chalmers RM, Gorton R, Pollock KG, van der Giessen JW, Wever PC, Dorigo-Zetsma JW, Mulder B, Mank TG, Overdevest I, Kusters JG, van Pelt W, Kortbeek LM. Simultaneous increase of Cryptosporidium infections in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany in late summer season, 2012. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(2)ii=20348. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20348
Date of submission: 12 December 2012 <HR>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 risk factor.
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