International travel as a risk factor for carriage of extended-spectrum -lactamase-producing escherichia coli in a large sample of european individuals—the aware study

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    Extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) are plasmid-mediated enzymes that inactivate β-lactam antibiotics, posing a significant therapeutic challenge in the treatment of both hospital and community-acquired infections. Most of the studies examining potential risk factors focus on high-risk populations, such as travelers, healthcare workers and patients, swimmers, farmers, and slaughterhouse workers, and often use small, convenient samples of, e_g, students. The authors show descriptive counts for international travel variables as the authors collected the questionnaire data, i.e., using the following frequency scale for travel in the past 12 months: 4 of 19 . . .

     

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