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Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in patients with travellers’ diarrhoea

Overview of attention for article published in Infectious Diseases, February 2010
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Title
Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in patients with travellers’ diarrhoea
Published in
Infectious Diseases, February 2010
DOI 10.3109/00365540903493715
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Authors

Johan Tham, Inga Odenholt, Mats Walder, Alma Brolund, Jonas Ahl, Eva Melander

Abstract

The identification of patients carrying extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria is important, since these patients are at risk of receiving inappropriate empirical therapy if they become infected. The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of ESBL-producing bacteria in patients with travellers' diarrhoea. Patients with travellers' diarrhoea (N = 242) having delivered stool samples for the diagnosis of Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia or Campylobacter, were also examined for ESBL-producing Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus mirabilis. The overall prevalence of faecal carriage of ESBL-producing bacteria was 24% (58/242). Of the patients who had travelled in Europe, 3% (2/63) were found to be ESBL carriers in comparison to 36% (50/138) of those who had travelled outside Europe. ESBL-producing E. coli was especially common among patients returning from India (11/14), Egypt (19/38; 50%) and Thailand (8/38; 22%). In total, 90% of the genes of the ESBL-positive samples were of CTX-M type. The CTX-M-1 group dominated, followed by the CTX-M-9 group. The repetitive sequence-based PCR fingerprint pattern showed that there was no similarity between the ESBL strains found. Patients who have travelled outside Europe are at high risk of being colonized with ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae, and, if infected, are also at risk of receiving inappropriate empirical antibiotic therapy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Unknown 96 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 16%
Student > Master 13 13%
Researcher 12 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 12%
Student > Postgraduate 9 9%
Other 18 18%
Unknown 21 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 37%
Immunology and Microbiology 12 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 4%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 26 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 September 2015.
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#2,966,043
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Infectious Diseases
#93
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Outputs of similar age
#15,120
of 172,974 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Infectious Diseases
#2
of 17 outputs
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