International tourists are particularly vulnerable to virulent strains of drug-resistant bacteria due to the amount of time they spend intermingling with other people, a new study published in The Lancet Microbe has found.
The global spread of intestinal multidrug resistant gram-negative (MDR-GN) bacteria poses a serious threat to human health worldwide, with MDR clones of E.coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae threatening more antibiotic resistant infections around the world.
Researchers monitored a group of European travellers visiting Lao People’s Democratic Republic for three weeks – analysing daily returns of information and stool samples…