Examined risk factors for carrying resistant bacteria | -Travel activity last year -Work/stay at hospital, nursing home, schools, prison, military, asylum center/refugee camp, hostel, daycare or war zone in and outside the Nordic region. -Signs of infections, shared sports equipment, tattoos/piercings -Contact with mink farm, live pigs, cattle or poultry -Hospitalized for the past six months -Invasive surgery performed at a foreign clinic/hospital -Drainage tubes, indwelling catheters, nutrition tubes, ulcers, abscesses, eczema, chronic skin disorders or IV drug abuse within the last six months -Antibiotic treatment within the last 6 months -Previously carrier of resistant bacteria, household-like contact with carrier or worked/stayed in places with known transmission of resistant bacteria |
Outcome variables | -MRSA: methicillin resistant Staphyloccus aureus -ESBL: extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing enterobacteria -VRE: vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) -CPE: carbapenem resistant enterobacteria -CD: Clostridium difficile |