Unusual microorganisms and antimicrobial resistances in a group of Syrian migrants: Sentinel surveillance data from an asylum seekers centre in Italy

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 115-122

  Angeletti, Silvia ^a   Ceccarelli, Giancarlo ^b,c   Vita, Serena ^b,c   Dicuonzo, Giordano ^a   Lopalco, Maurizio ^d,e   Dedej, Etleva ^a   Blasi, Aletheia ^a   Antonelli, Francesca ^a   Conti, Alessia ^a   De Cesaris, Marina ^a   Farchi, Francesca ^f   Lo Presti, Alessandra ^f   Ciccozzi, Massimo ^a,f   Cuomo, Maria Rosaria ^g   Di Bari, Virginia ^g   Gangarossa, Gabriele ^g   Buma Dinga, Charles Keh ^g   Tariciotti, Laura ^g   Balint, Mihela ^g   Conti Papuzza, Irene ^g   Dimitrova, Elza ^g   Di Santo, Martina ^g   Leonardi, Maria ^g   Walter, Ida ^g   more..

^a University Hospital Campus Bio Medico   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Migrant Health Research Organisation (Mi HeRO)   (Italy)

^d Sanitary Bureau of Asylum Seekers Center of Castelnuovo di Porto   (Italy)

^e Auxilium Società Cooperativa Sociale   (Italy)

^f ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Microbiological surveillance; Syrian migrants; Unusual microorganisms

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; METICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER GUILLOVIAE; ACINETOBACTER JOHNSONII; ACINETOBACTER LOWFFII; ACINETOBACTER TJERNBERGAE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROMONAS CAVIAE; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS VERONII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASYLUM SEEKER; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIGRANT; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PANTOEA CALIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS MONTEILII; PSEUDOMONAS MOSELII; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONASM FULVA; RECTUM; REFUGEE CAMP; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SYRIAN; THROAT CULTURE; TRAVEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; REFUGEE; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REFUGEES; SYRIA; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962575468     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.03.005     Document Type: Article

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