Antibiotic resistance -- Worldwide/Unknown
Three of the Lancet studies briefly describe new tests on bacterial collections. In one of them, a consortium from the Netherlands looked at bacteria in fecal samples from 2002 Dutch people before and after they traveled between November 2012 and November 2013. 6 isolates had the MCR-1 gene in _Escherichia coli_ [1].
Two of the travelers who weren't related to each other had been to Peru and Bolivia, 2 other unrelated people took trips to China, one went to Tunisia, and one had visited
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