CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE HOSPITAL SUPER-BUG ECDC REPORT
April 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned reliable statistics on the extent of super-bug Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) in Europe is "largely unknown". The dangerous and highly robust germ has been shown present in 10 to 200 hospitalised American patients per 10,000 admissions. But in the EU, only a patchy survey in 2002 in Britain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Spain has been carried out. A second study ordered in 2005 was not completed. The report said information is still ...
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