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      The Same Question: Are Migrants from the Middle East to Greece Carriers of Resistant Bacteria? In 2015, the Answer was No, but in 2019 it is Yes (Letter to editor

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          In 2015, the surveillance cultures from respiratory tract and wounds in migrants and refugees to Greece showed only few strains of multi-resistant bacteria. In 2019, about 33-40% of all isolates were multi-resistant to several antimicrobial agents, however the majority of refugees in 2015 (90%) were from Syria and Iraq, but in 2019 the majority are from Afghanistan (40%) and Sub-Saharan Africa (60%). Longer travel, bad travel and housing conditions following by frequent respiratory and intestinal infections cause overuse of oral and OTC (over the counter) antibiotics resulting in resistance (MRSA ESBL but also KPC).

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            Journal
            Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention
            cswhi
            Journal of Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention
            2222386X
            20769741
            November 20 2019
            November 3 2019
            November 20 2019
            November 3 2019
            : 10
            : 3
            : 60-62
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            10.22359/cswhi_10_3_06
            a5eb7815-6e17-444e-a84e-349698c3e22f
            © 2019

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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            Psychology,Social & Behavioral Sciences
            Psychology, Social & Behavioral Sciences

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