Should travelers be screened for multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria after visiting high risk areas such as India?

A study of risk factors for being infected with tigecycline resistant K. pneumonia in a hospital setting found that the only independent risk factor was prior use of kinolones [17]. [...]it seems that, in particular, South East Asia is a hotspot for developing and spreading MDR bacteria [18,19], and particularly hospitals are identified a source [20,21], as has also been reported from Greece [22]. Medical tourism and hospital as hot-spots for MDR bacteria "Medical tourism" is the term used for patients traveling for treatment at a medical facility in another country. Because hospitals are hotspots for MDR bacteria, medical tourisms is of particular concern in the spread of MDR bacteria between countries [26,27]..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Travel medicine and infectious disease - 14(2016), 6, Seite 591-594

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Petersen, Eskild [VerfasserIn]
Mohsin, Jalila [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Antibiotics
Bacteria
Chronic illnesses
Diarrhea
Disease control
Genomics
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Medical tourism
Multidrug resistant organisms
Nosocomial infections
Plasmids
Pneumonia
Risk factors
Travel

doi:

10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.11.014

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OLC1989884091