Pre-COVID-19 international travel and admission to hospital when back home: travel behavior, carriage of highly resistant microorganisms, and risk perception of patients admitted to a large tertiary care hospital

Table 1 Characteristics of patients carrying HRMO and patients not carrying HRMO at admission

Patient characteristic	HRMO carrier; n = 15	Not carrying HRMO; n = 232	p-value
Male gender (%)	10 (66.7)	131 (56.5)	0.439
Age, median (IQR)	64 (26)	64 (18)	0.273
Travel < 1y before admission (%)	7 (46.7)	110 (47.4)	0.955
Antibiotic use < 1y (%)	7^a (50)	115^b (52.5)	0.855
Antacid use < 1y (%)	9 (60)	97^c (42.9)	0.197
Travelling household members < 1y (%)	3 (20)	50 (21.6)	0.881
Animal contact^d (%)	2 (13.3)	86 (37.1)	NA
Domestic animal contact	2 (13.3)	72^e (31.4)	NA
Farm animal contact	0 (0)	5^e (2.2)	NA

NA, not applicable; y, year; HRMO, highly resistant microorganism; IQR, interquartile range
^aOne patient with missing information
^b13 patients with missing information
^cSix patients with missing information
^dContact with farm or domestic animals more than 3 times a week, more than 1 h each day
^eThree patients with missing information; these patients only stated they had animal contact, but not with which animal

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