Multidrug-resistant bacteria in unaccompanied refugee minors arriving in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, October to November 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Heudorf, U ^a   Krackhardt, B ^a   Karathana, M ^a   Kleinkauf, N ^a   Zinn, C ^b  

^a Public Health Department   (Germany)

^b Center for Hygiene and Infection Prevention   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; REFUGEE; TRAVEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MINOR (PERSON); PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MINORS; REFUGEES;

EID: 84976277542     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.2.30109     Document Type: Article

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