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 2 Patient characteristics of travelling and non-travelling patients

Patient characteristic	Travelling patient; n = 117	Non-travelling patient; n = 130	p-value
Male gender (%)	70 (59.8)	71 (54.6)	0.408
Age, median (IQR)	63 (21)	65 (15)	0.006
HRMO carrier at admission (%)	7 (6.0)	8 (6.2)	0.955
Antibiotic use < 1y (%)	57 (51.8)^a	65 (52.8)^a	0.875
Antacid use < 1y (%)	49 (43.0)^b	57 (44.9)^b	0.767
Travelling household members < 1y (%)	34 (29.3)^c	19 (14.6)	0.005
Animal contact (%)^d,e	46 (39.3)	42 (32.3)	0.251
Domestic animal contact	39 (33.9)^f	35 (27.1)^g,h	0.272
Dogs	26 (22.6)	24 (18.8)	0.463
Cats	21 (18.3)	21 (16.4)	0.708
Birds	2 (1.7)	3 (2.3)	NA
Rabbits	1 (0.9)	1 (0.8)	NA
Farm animal contact	2 (1.7)^g	3 (2.3)^h	NA
Horses	2 (1.7)	2 (1.6)	NA
Goats	1 (0.9)	1 (0.8)	NA
Poultry	1 (0.9)	1 (0.8)	NA
Sheep	0 (0)	2 (1.6)	NA
Pigs	0 (0)	1 (0.8)	NA

Significant differences are indicated in bold text
NA, not applicable; HRMO, highly resistant microorganism; y, year
^aSeven patients with missing information
^bThree patients with missing information
^cOne patient with missing information
^fContact with farm or domestic animals more than 3 times a week, more than 1 h each day
^eNumbers do not add up because 20 patients had contact with multiple animals
^fTwo patients with missing information about which animal
^gOne patient with missing information about which animal
^hOne patient reported domestic animal contact but missing information about which animal

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