ESBL in Patients Returning to Sweden With Traveller's Diarrhoea
ESBL in Patients Returning to Sweden With Traveller's Diarrhoea
Patients with traveller's diarrhoea frequently harbour Extended Spectrum Betalactamase
 (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae (EPE) returning from EPE-endemic areas.

 This study investigates to what extent travellers returning to Sweden with traveller's
 diarrhoea carry ESBL in their stool. The isolates are examined further according to species,
 phenotype, antibiogram and whole genome sequencing.
Samples sent to the department of clinical microbiology in Lund, Sweden for culture of
 salmonella, shigella, yersinia or campylobacter are also cultured selectively for ESBL.

 All patients are contacted by mail with the results. ESBL-positive patients are invited to
 submit further faecal cultures and blood samples during one year follow up time, to
 investigate how long the patient is colonized with ESBL.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Travellers diarrhoea

 -  foreign traveller

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  foreign traveller but no symptoms