Unusual microorganisms and antimicrobial resistances in a group of Syrian migrants: Sentinel surveillance data from an asylum seekers centre in Italy

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• 作者：Silvia Angeletti^a ; ¹ ; Giancarlo Ceccarelli^b ; ^c ; ¹ ; Serena Vita^b ; ^c ; Giordano Dicuonzo^a ; Maurizio Lopalco^d ; ^e ; Etleva Dedej^a ; Aletheia Blasi^a ; Francesca Antonelli^a ; Alessia Conti^a ; Marina De Cesaris^a ; Francesca Farchi^f ; Alessandra Lo Presti^f ; Massimo Ciccozzi^a ; ^f ; ^{ciccozzi@iss.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; on behalf of Sanitary Bureau of Asylum Seekers Center of Castelnuovo di Porto² ; Maria Rosaria Cuomo ; Virginia Di Bari ; Gabriele Gangarossa ; Charles Keh Buma Dinga ; Laura Tariciotti ; Mihela Balint ; Irene Conti Papuzza ; Elza Dimitrova ; Martina Di Santo ; Maria Leonardi ; Ida Walter
• 关键词：Syrian migrants ; Microbiological surveillance ; Unusual microorganisms ; Antimicrobial resistance
• 刊名：Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March-April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：14
• 期：2
• 页码：115-122
• 全文大小：302 K

文摘

Three years of civil war in Syria have caused death and increase of communicable diseases. The suffering population has been forced to migrate creating a fertile condition for epidemic spread of infection within the refugee camps.

Methods

Forty-eight Syrian migrants, upon their arrival in Italy, were accommodated at the asylum seekers centre of Castelnuovo di Porto. They received a physical examination and were subjected to microbiological surveillance by blood, rectal, pharyngeal and nasal swabs collection and delivering to the Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Laboratory of the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome.

Results

All refugees resulted negative for HBV, HCV and HIV infections. In swabs a large number of unusual gram-negative bacteria species were isolated, such as Pseudomonas putida, Pseudomonas monteilii, Pseudomonas fulva, Pseudomonas moselii, Aeromonas veronii, Aeromonas caviae, Aeromonas hydrophila, Acinteobacter guilloviae, Acinteobacter lowffii; Acinetobacter johnsonii; Acinteobacter tjernbergae; Pantoea agglomerans; Pantoea calida. Among isolates, strains resistant to carbapenems, ESBL producers and methicillin resistant were found.

Conclusions

The microbiological surveillance performed represents a useful action to understand refugees health status and to trace unusual microorganisms movement even carriers of antimicrobial resistance during migrants traveling.