Risk Factors for Colonization with Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria among Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit after Returning from Abroad | Zendy

Marion Angue | Zendy; Nicolas Allou | Zendy; Olivier Belmonte | Zendy; Yannick Lefort | Zendy; Nathalie Lugagne | Zendy; David Vandroux | Zendy; Philippe Montravers | Zendy; Jérôme Allyn | Zendy

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Risk Factors for Colonization with Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria among Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit after Returning from Abroad

Author(s) -

Marion Angue,

Nicolas Allou,

Olivier Belmonte,

Yannick Lefort,

Nathalie Lugagne,

David Vandroux,

Philippe Montravers,

Jérôme Allyn

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of travel medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1708-8305

pISSN - 1195-1982

DOI - 10.1111/jtm.12220

Subject(s) - medicine , carriage , intensive care unit , odds ratio , hygiene , retrospective cohort study , antibiotics , emergency medicine , risk factor , intensive care medicine , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Few national recommendations exist on management of patients returning from abroad and all focus on hospitalized patients. Our purpose was to compare, in an intensive care unit (ICU), the admission prevalence and acquisition of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria carriage in patients with ("Abroad") or without ("Local") a recent stay abroad, and then identify the risk factors in "Abroad" patients.

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