Descriptive epidemiology of Escherichia coli bacteraemia in England, April 2012 to March 2014

We determined the incidence, risk factors and antimicrobial susceptibility associated with Escherichia coli bacteraemia in England over a 24 month period. Case data were obtained from the national mandatory surveillance database, with susceptibility data linked from LabBase2, a voluntary national mi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Euro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles 2016-09, Vol.21 (35), p.1
Hauptverfasser: Bou-Antoun, Sabine, Davies, John, Guy, Rebecca, Johnson, Alan P, Sheridan, Elizabeth A, Hope, Russell J
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Zusammenfassung:We determined the incidence, risk factors and antimicrobial susceptibility associated with Escherichia coli bacteraemia in England over a 24 month period. Case data were obtained from the national mandatory surveillance database, with susceptibility data linked from LabBase2, a voluntary national microbiology database. Between April 2012 and March 2014, 66,512 E. coli bacteraemia cases were reported. Disease incidence increased by 6% from 60.4 per 100,000 population in 2012-13 to 63.5 per 100,000 population in 2013-14 (p 
ISSN:1560-7917
1025-496X
1560-7917
DOI:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2016.21.35.30329