Multidrug-resistant organisms detected in refugee patients admitted to a University Hospital, Germany June‒December 2015
- Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR GNB) were found to colonise 60.8% (95% confidence interval: 52.3–68.9) of 143 refugee patients mainly from Syria (47), Afghanistan (29), and Somalia (14) admitted to the University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, between June and December 2015. This percentage exceeds the prevalence of MDR GNB in resident patients four–fold. Healthcare personnel should be aware of this and the need to implement or adapt adequate infection control measures.
Author: | Claudia ReinheimerGND, Volkhard A. J. KempfORCiDGND, Stephan GöttigORCiDGND, Michael HogardtORCiDGND, Thomas Alexander WichelhausORCiD, Fiona O'Rourke, Christian BrandtORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-508201 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.2.30110 |
ISSN: | 1560-7917 |
ISSN: | 1025-496X |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26794850 |
Parent Title (English): | Eurosurveillance |
Publisher: | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |
Place of publication: | Stockholm |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Date of first Publication: | 2016/01/14 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/07/15 |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2, pii=30110 |
Page Number: | 5 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 5 |
Note: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 452212138 |
Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |