High Rate of Acquisition but Short Duration of Carriage of Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae After Travel to the Tropics
Author(s) -
Étienne Ruppé,
Laurence Armand-Lefèvre,
Candice Estellat,
PaulHenri Consigny,
Assiya El Mniai,
Yacine Boussadia,
Catherine Goujon,
Pascal Ralaimazava,
Pauline Campa,
PierreMarie Girard,
Benjamin Wyplosz,
Daniel Vittecoq,
Olivier Bouchaud,
Guillaume Loup,
Gilles Pialoux,
Marion Perrier,
Ingrid Wieder,
Nabila Moussa,
Marina EspositoFarèse,
Isabelle Hoffmann,
B. Coignard,
JeanChristophe Lucet,
Antoine Andremont,
Sophie Matheron
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/civ333
Subject(s) - carriage , feces , enterobacteriaceae , diarrhea , medicine , tropics , veterinary medicine , traveler's diarrhea , travel medicine , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , escherichia coli , ecology , pathology , gene , biochemistry
Multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MRE) are widespread in the community, especially in tropical regions. Travelers are at risk of acquiring MRE in these regions, but the precise extent of the problem is not known.
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