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Cryptosporidiosis

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Figure 1. Reported confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases, EU/EEA, 2014

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Figure 3. Reported confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases: rate per 100 000 population, by age and gender, EU/EEA, 2014

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Figure 5. Reported confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases: numbers and trend, EU/EEA, 2010−2014

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Publication

Cryptosporidiosis - Annual Epidemiological Report 2016 [2014 data]

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Cryptosporidiosis - Annual Epidemiological Report 2016 [2014 data]

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The European Union Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic Agents and Food-borne Outbreaks in 2012

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Communicable disease threats report, 18-24 November 2012, week 47

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Risk assessment: Increased Cryptosporidium infections in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany in 2012

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Data for 14 food- and waterborne diseases now available on ECDC Surveillance Atlas

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Trends in Europe for food- and waterborne diseases and zoonoses

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Monitoring current threats: ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR), week 47

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Increased Cryptosporidium infections in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany: ECDC issues risk assessment

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Data

Figure 1. Reported confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases, EU/EEA, 2014

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Figure 3. Reported confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases: rate per 100 000 population, by age and gender, EU/EEA, 2014

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Figure 5. Reported confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases: numbers and trend, EU/EEA, 2010−2014

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Table 1. Reported confirmed cryptosporidiosis cases: numbers and rate, EU/EEA, 2010–2014

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Threats and outbreaks

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Facts

Cryptosporidia are intestinal parasites infecting a variety of animals (e.g. cattle, sheep, rodents, cats and dogs, but also birds, fish and reptiles). Human infections occur due to Cryptosporidium parvum, a species that also affects domestic animals.

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Disease programmes and networks

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Eurosurveillance

15 September 2016 - Towards a consensus on genotyping schemes for surveillance and outbreak investigations of Cryptosporidium, Berlin, June 2016
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02 February 2012 - Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a child day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain, October to December 2011
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16 July 2009 - A foodborne outbreak due to Cryptosporidium parvum in Helsinki, November 2008
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26 February 2009 - Epidemiology of human cryptosporidiosis in Ireland, 2004-2006: analysis of national notification data
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15 January 2009 - Long-term Cryptosporidium typing reveals the aetiology and species-specific epidemiology of human cryptosporidiosis in England and Wales, 2000 to 2003
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