title: [Incidence of intestinal pathogens in asylum applicants].
abstract: In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the Provincial Government has decreed that the laboratory diagnostic examination of applicants for asylum is limited to Salmonella and Shigella. A comprehensive bacteriological and parasitological investigation of 517 applicants for asylum showed a wide pattern of intestinal pathogens. 123 person (23.79%) were infected with pathogenic or facultative pathogenic agents. Regional differences of the extent of distribution and the risks of infestation with pathogens by importation are discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Limitation of obligatory microbiologic examination to Salmonella and Shigella only is insufficient.
authors.affiliation: Landeshygieneinstitut Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gauert
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D008403:Mass Screening; D012036:Refugees; D012307:Risk Factors; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission