Diarrhée des voyageurs: résistance aux antibiotiques [Travelers' diarrhea: resistance to antibiotics].
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Serval ID
serval:BIB_62A0677FB07C
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Diarrhée des voyageurs: résistance aux antibiotiques [Travelers' diarrhea: resistance to antibiotics].
Journal
Revue Médicale Suisse
ISSN
1660-9379 (Print)
ISSN-L
1660-9379
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2006
Volume
2
Number
65
Pages
1224-1230
Language
french
Notes
Publication types: English Abstract ; Journal Article ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
There is a discrepancy between the recommendations developed by international organisations and infectious disease societies about the prescription of antibiotics for non severe diseases and those established by travel medicine experts for travelers' diarrhea. For the first ones, the prescription of antibiotics should be drastically reduced; for the second, antibiotics should be used by the vast majority of travelers with diarrhea. We believe that the latter recommendation goes against the general interest since 1) travelers' diarrhea is usually benign, 2) there is no recent study on the effectiveness of chemoprophylaxis or treatment in different countries with different level of antibiotic resistance of usual enteropathogens, 3) there is no data on travelers' perception of their illness and on their attitudes in case of diarrhea.
Keywords
Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology, Diarrhea/drug therapy, Diarrhea/etiology, Drug Resistance, Humans, Travel
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