Skin and soft tissue infections in intercontinental travellers and the import of multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Europe

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 567.e1-567.e10

  Nurjadi, D ^a,b   Friedrich Janicke B ^c   Schafer J ^d   Van Genderen, P J J ^e   Goorhuis, A ^f   Perignon, A ^g   Neumayr, A ^h,i   Mueller, A ^j   Kantele, A ^k   Schunk, M ^l   Gascon, J ^m   Stich, A ^j   Hatz, C ^h,i,n   Caumes, E ^g   Grobusch, M P ^f   Fleck, R ^d   Mockenhaupt, F P ^c   Zanger, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Instituut voor Tropische Ziekten Havenziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^h SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^j Missionsarztliche Klinik   (Germany)

^k HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^l LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Drug resistance; Emerging communicable diseases; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Molecular epidemiology; Panton Valentine leukocidin; Risk factors; Sentinel surveillance; Staphylococcal skin infections; Travel medicine; Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole combination

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; METICILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRAVEL; DRUG EFFECTS; EUROPE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOSE MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; NASAL MUCOSA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRAVEL; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930793484     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.01.016     Document Type: Article

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