Introduction of highly resistant bacteria into a hospital via patients repatriated or recently hospitalized in a foreign country

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages O887-O890

  Birgand, G ^a,b   Armand Lefevre, L ^a,b   Lepainteur, M ^a   Lolom, I ^a   Neulier, C ^a   Reibel, F ^a   Yazdanpanah, Y ^a,b   Andremont, A ^a,b   Lucet, J C ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Carbapenamase producing enterobacteriaceae; Colonization; Repatriation; Vglycopeptide resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; RESISTANT HIGHLY DRUG RESISTANT MICROORGANISM; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FRANCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIGRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; TRAVEL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84917671527     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12604     Document Type: Article

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