[Emerging multidrug-resistant microorganisms among travelers returning to France and persons repatriated from foreign hospitals].
The spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria has become a major problem in France in recent years, owing to increasing antibiotic exposure, growing international exchanges, repatriation of hospitalized French patients, and treatment of French and foreign travelers in French hospitals. This article examines how different pathogens may become endemic in France.
Lepelletier
Didier
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Maladies infectieuses, CHR Bretonneau, 37044 Tours cedex. didier.lepelletier@chu-nantes.fr
Andremont
Antoine
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Choutet
Patrick
P
D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D014195:Travel