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High prevalence of MRSA and ESBL among asylum seekers in the Netherlands.
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- Success rates of MRSA decolonization and factors associated with failure.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2022Article
- Climate change, human migration, and skin disease: is there a link?International journal of dermatology · 2022Review
- Climate-related migration and population health: social science-oriented dynamic simulation model.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a low endemicity area-new challenges for MRSA control.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2020Article
- Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among undocumented migrants and uninsured legal residents in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: a cross-sectional study.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2020Article
- Relationship between biofilm gene expression with antimicrobial resistance pattern and clinical specimen type based on sequence types (STs) of methicillin-resistant S. aureus.Molecular biology reports · 2020Article
- High prevalence of methicillin-resistantJournal of migration and health · 2020Article
- Antibiotic resistance patterns of Escherichia coli in migrants vs non-migrants: a study of 14 561 urine samples.Journal of travel medicine · 2019Article
- Targeting TB or MRSA in Norwegian municipalities during 'the refugee crisis' of 2015: a framework for priority setting in screening.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019Article
- No evidence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in stool samples of 1,544 asylum seekers arriving in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, April 2016 to March, 2017.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019Article
- Asylum seekers' perspectives on vaccination and screening policies after their arrival in Greece and The Netherlands.PloS one · 2019Article
- Proportion of asylum seekers carrying multi-drug resistant microorganisms is persistently increased after arrival in the Netherlands.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2019Article
- Antibiotic susceptibility patterns ofThe Pan African medical journal · 2019Article
- Prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms in refugee patients admitted to a German university hospital depending on duration of stay in Germany.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2019Article
- Methicillin-resistantAIMS microbiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Migration is one of the risk factors for the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). The increasing influx of migrants challenges local health care systems. To provide evidence for both hospital hygiene measure and empirical antibiotic therapy, we analysed all cultures performed in asylum seekers between January 1st 2014 and December 31st 2015 for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and for multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MDRE). We compared these with cultures from the Dutch patient population with risk factors for carriage of MDRO. A total of 7181 patients were screened for MRSA. 7357 S. aureus were isolated in clinical cultures. Of 898 screened asylum seekers, almost 10% were MRSA positive. Of 118 asylum seekers with S. aureus in clinical cultures almost 19% were MRSA positive. The general patient population had a 1.3% rate of MRSA in S. aureus isolates. A higher rate of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) positive strains (RR: 2.4; 95% CI: 1.6-3.4) was found in asylum seekers compared to the general patient population. In 33475 patients one or more Enterobacteriaceae were obtained. More than 21% of the asylum seekers were carrier of MDRE, most of them producing extended spectrum beta-lactamases (20.3%). 5.1% of the general patient population was MDRE carrier. It can be concluded that asylum seekers present with higher rate of MDRO compared to the general patient population. These results justify continued screening of asylum seekers to anticipate multidrug-resistant organisms during hospital care of patients.
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