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SUBMITTER: Benenson S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6013425 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Benenson Shmuel S Nir-Paz Ran R Golomb Mordechai M Schwartz Carmela C Amit Sharon S Moses Allon E AE Cohen Matan J MJ
Scientific reports 20180621 1
Medical tourism has a potential of spreading multi-drug resistant bacteria (MDR). The Hadassah Medical Center serves as a referral center for global medical tourists and for Palestinian Authority residents. In order to assess whether patients of these groups are more likely to harbor MDR bacteria than local residents, we reviewed data from all patients admitted to our institution between 2009 and 2014. We compared MDR rates between countries of residency, controlling for gender, age, previous ho ...[more]