Antibiotic self-treatment of travelers' diarrhea: Helpful or harmful?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 847-848

  Connor, Bradley A ^a   Keystone, Jay S ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; ESBL Enterobacteriaceae; Post infectious irritable bowel syndrome; Travelers' diarrhea

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMPORIATRICS; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE FLORA; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; IRRITABLE COLON; POSTINFECTIOUS IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; TENESMUS; TOURISM; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VEIN PUNCTURE; VOMITING; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; TRAVEL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRAVEL;

EID: 84929807878     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu961     Document Type: Editorial

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