ヨーロッパにおけるクロストリジウム・ディフィシル感染:病院での調査
Martijn P Bauer1, Daan W Notermans, Birgit H B van Benthem
1Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands. m.p.bauer@lumc.nl
Lancet (London, England)
|November 19, 2010
まとめ
クラストリジウムディフィシル感染 (CDI) はヨーロッパ各地に異なっており,非-027 PCRリボタイプが最も一般的です. 多国間監視は,この重要な病院内感染の検出と制御に不可欠です.
科学分野:
- 感染症 感染症は感染症です.
- エピデミオロジー エピデミオロジー
- 微生物学 微生物学とは
背景:
- ヨーロッパのクロストリジウム・ディフィシル感染 (CDI) の流行に関するデータは限られている.
- ヨーロッパにおけるCDIの包括的な概要を確立する必要性が確認されました.
- CDIの診断と監視のための能力構築は,重要な目標でした.
研究 の 目的:
- ヨーロッパの医療環境におけるクロストリジウム・ディフィシル感染の範囲を把握する.
- 流行しているClostridium difficileのPCRリボタイプと,患者のアウトカムとの関連性を特徴づける.
- CDIに対する欧州の監視と診断能力を強化する.
主な方法:
- 欧州34カ国の106の研究所のネットワークが研究に参加しました.
- CDIまたは病院で得られた下痢の疑いのある患者の糞便サンプルを検査しました.
- 詳細な分析とフォローアップのために,臨床データとバクテリア単離物が収集されました.
主要な成果:
- CDIの発生率は著しく変化し,体重平均は1万患者日あたり4.1であった.
- 65の異なるPCRリボタイプが特定され,最も一般的なのが014/020,001,078でした.
- 高齢 (≥65歳) とPCRリボタイプ018および056の感染は,合併症のアウトカムと関連していました.
結論:
- 先ほど強調した027以外のPCRリボタイプは,欧州の病院で広く流行しています.
- この研究は,CDIの効果的な検出と制御のために,多国籍の監視努力が極めて重要であることを強調しています.
- 発見は,さまざまなCDI株に対する継続的なモニタリングとターゲットを絞った介入の必要性を強調しています.
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