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

Autor: Niels Kleinkauf, Bernhard Krackhardt, Maria Karathana, Ursel Heudorf, Christian Zinn
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Eurosurveillance. 21
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2016.21.2.30109
Popis: Many refugees arriving in Germany originate or have travelled through countries with high prevalence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative organisms. Therefore, all unaccompanied refugee minors (Enterobacteriaceae in stool samples. Enterobacteriaceae with extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) were detected in 42 of 119 (35%) individuals, including nine with additional resistance to fluoroquinolones (8% of total screened), thus exceeding the prevalences in the German population by far.
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