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Antibiotic-resistant organisms plague poor countries at least as much as they do wealthy ones, and travelers to developing countries can become colonized with indigenous drug-resistant intestinal bacteria. To quantitate this risk, French researchers obtained stool samples from 574 healthy adults before and after travel to sub-Saharan Africa (34%), Latin America (32%), or Asia (34%). Most study participants traveled as tourists to various tropical vacation destinations; median duration of travel was 3 weeks.
All stool samples obtained during 1 week preceding travel were negative for multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MRE; Enterobacteriaceae resistant to multiple β-lactams, including cephalosporin and carbapenem antibiotics). Stool sample…