Hedrich N, Lovey T, Kuenzli E, Epéron G, Blanke U, Schlagenhauf P. Infection tracking in travellers using a mobile app (ITIT): the pilot study. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023;52:102526. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102526

2023
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Kuenzli E, Fischer P.R. When silver doesn't shine anymore: the threat of increasing resistance to antibiotics and silver antiseptics. New Microbes New Infect. 2023;52:101126. DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101126

2023
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Meier H, Spinner K, Crump L, Kuenzli E, Schuepbach G, Zinsstag J. State of knowledge on the acquisition, diversity, interspecies attribution and spread of antimicrobial resistance between humans, animals and the environment: a systematic review. Antibiotics (Basel). 2023;12:73. DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12010073

2023
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Neumayr A, Kuenzli E. Quinacrine - the winding road from the most important antimalarial of its time to an indispensable antiparasitic (orphan) drug of our days. Chimia (Aarau). 2023;77(9):574-576. DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2023.574

2023
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Rondon C, Garcia C, Krapp F, Machaca I, Olivera M, Fernández V, Villegas M, Vilcapoma P, Casapia M, Concha-Velasco F, Díaz J.C, Sarmiento F, Guillermo R, Farnham A, Sutter S.T, Kuenzli E. Antibiotic point prevalence survey and antimicrobial resistance in hospitalized patients across Peruvian reference hospitals. J Infect Public Health. 2023;16(Suppl 1):52-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2023.10.030

2023
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Schweitzer M, Mari A, Roloff T, Künzli E, Heller S, Torres D.A, Meola M, Nogarth D, Laganenka L, Prampolini L, Seth-Smith H.M.B, Grüninger O, Gensch A, Reist J, Bonhoeffer S, Hardt W.D, Egli A. ESBL displace: a protocol for an observational study to identify displacing Escherichia coli strain candidates from ESBL-colonized travel returners using phenotypic, genomic sequencing and metagenome analysis. Microbiol Res (Pavia). 2023;14(1):177-189. DOI: 10.3390/microbiolres14010015

2023
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Snaith A.E, Dunn S.J, Moran R.A, Newton P.N, Dance D.A.B, Davong V, Kuenzli E, Kantele A, Corander J, McNally A. The highly diverse plasmid population found in Escherichia coli colonizing travellers to Laos and its role in antimicrobial resistance gene carriage. Microb Genom. 2023;9(5):001000. DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001000

2023
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Farnham A, Baroutsou V, Hatz C, Fehr J, Kuenzli E, Blanke U, Puhan M.A, Bühler S. Travel behaviours and health outcomes during travel: profiling destination-specific risks in a prospective mHealth cohort of Swiss travellers. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2022;47:102294. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102294

2022
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Hörmann J, Kuenzli E, Schaefer C, Paris D.H, Bühler S, Odermatt P, Sayasone S, Neumayr A, Nickel B. Performance of a rapid immuno-chromatographic test (Schistosoma ICT IgG-IgM) for detecting Schistosoma-specific antibodies in sera of endemic and non-endemic populations. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2022;16(5):e0010463. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010463

2022
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Jakab Á, Kahlig P, Kuenzli E, Neumayr A. Tick borne relapsing fever: a systematic review and analysis of the literature. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2022;16(2):e0010212. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010212

2022
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Kantele A, Kuenzli E, Dunn S.J, Dance D.A.B, Newton P.N, Davong V, Mero S, Pakkanen S.H, Neumayr A, Hatz C, Snaith A, Kallonen T, Corander J, McNally A. Dynamics of intestinal multidrug-resistant bacteria colonisation contracted by visitors to a high-endemic setting: a prospective, daily, real-time sampling study. Lancet Microbe. 2021;2(4):e151-e158. DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30224-X

2021
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Künzli E, Neumayr A, Eperon G, Staehelin C, Kocher C. Durchfall beim Reiserückkehrer. Swiss Med Forum. 2021;21(09-10):149-153. DOI: 10.4414/smf.2021.08648

2021
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Moser A.I, Kuenzli E, Budel T, Campos-Madueno E.I, Bernasconi O.J, DeCrom-Beer S, Jakopp B, Mohammed A.H, Hassan N.K, Fehr J, Zinsstag J, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Travellers returning from the island of Zanzibar colonized with MDR Escherichia coli strains: assessing the impact of local people and other sources. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021;76(2):330-337. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaa457

2021
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Moser A.I, Kuenzli E, Campos-Madueno E.I, Büdel T, Rattanavong S, Vongsouvath M, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli strains and their plasmids in people, poultry, and chicken meat in Laos. Front Microbiol. 2021;12:708182. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.708182

2021
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Mudji J, Künzli E, Molyneux D, Blum J. Long-term sequelae of congenital gambiense human African trypanosomiasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2021;115(8):932-936. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trab082

2021
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Muigg V, Maier M.I, Künzli E, Neumayr A. Delayed cerebellar ataxia, a rare post-malaria neurological complication: case report and review of the literature. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021;44:102177. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102177

2021
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Neumayr A, Schunk M, Theunissen C, Van Esbroeck M, Mechain M, Hatz C, Morch K, Soriano Perez M.J, Sydow V, Sothmann P, Kuenzli E, Rothe C, Bottieau E. Efficacy and tolerability of quinacrine monotherapy and albendazole plus chloroquine combination therapy in nitroimidazole-refractory giardiasis: a TropNet study. Clin Infect Dis. 2021;73(8):1517-1523. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciab513

2021
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Büdel T, Kuenzli E, Campos-Madueno E.I, Mohammed A.H, Hassan N.K, Zinsstag J, Hatz C, Endimiani A. On the island of Zanzibar people in the community are frequently colonized with the same MDR Enterobacterales found in poultry and retailed chicken meat. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2020;75(9):2432-2441. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaa198

2020
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Endimiani A, Bernasconi O.J, Büdel T, Campos-Madueno E.I, Kuenzli E, Hatz C, Carattoli A. Whole-genome characterization of a Shewanella algae strain co-harboring bla CTX-M-15 and armA genes on a novel IncC plasmid. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2020;64(5):e00267-20. DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00267-20

2020
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Kuenzli E, Neumayr A. A 46-year-old male traveler developing chronic cough after returning from South America. In: Rothe C, ed. Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 283-285. UK: Elsevier, 2020

2020
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Muigg V, Seth-Smith H.M.B, Goldenberger D, Egli A, Nickel B, Durig R, Kuenzli E, Hinic V, Neumayr A. Tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in traveler to Central Asia, 2019. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020;26(4):824-826. DOI: 10.3201/2604.191771

2020
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Sah R, Donovan S, Seth-Smith H.M.B, Bloemberg G, Wuthrich D, Stephan R, Kataria S, Kumar M, Singla S, Deswal V, Kaur A, Neumayr A, Hinic V, Egli A, Künzli E. A novel lineage of ceftriaxone-resistant Salmonella Typhi from India that is closely related to XDR S. Typhi found in Pakistan. Clin Infect Dis. 2020;71(5):1327-1330. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz1204

2020
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Budel T, Künzli E, Clement M, Bernasconi O.J, Fehr J, Mohammed A.H, Hassan N.K, Zinsstag J, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Polyclonal gut colonization with extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and/or colistin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a normal status for hotel employees on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019;74(10):2880-2890. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkz296

2019
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Künzli E, Budel T, Bernasconi O.J, Schlagenhauf P, Florek P, Gultekin N, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Intestinal colonization with multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae: screening of Swiss military deployed to Kosovo. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2019;19:93-95. DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2019.08.027

2019
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Künzli E, Jaeger V.K, DeCrom S, Sydow V, Muigg V, Frei R, Egli A, Fehr J, Hatz C. Impact of alcohol-based hand-gel sanitizer and hand hygiene advice on travellers' diarrhoea and colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: a randomised, controlled trial. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019;32:101475. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.101475

2019
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Neumayr A, Künzli E. Pyemotes ventricosus dermatitis: a serpiginous skin lesion due to a mite that parasitizes a wood-boring beetle. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;100(5):1041-1042. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-1006

2019
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Neumayr A, Staehelin C, Künzli E, Hatz C. Arguments for a two-dose yellow fever vaccination regimen in travellers. J Travel Med. 2019;26(6):taz004. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taz004

2019
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Nurjadi D, Fleck R, Lindner A, Schäfer J, Gertler M, Mueller A, Lagler H, Van Genderen P.J, Caumes E, Boutin S, Künzli E, Gascon J, Kantele A, Grobusch M.P, Heeg K, Zanger P, StaphTrav Network. Import of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Europe through skin and soft tissue infection in intercontinental travellers, 2011-2016. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019;25(6):739-746. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.09.023

2019
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Pires J, Kraemer J.G, Künzli E, Kasraian S, Tinguely R, Hatz C, Endimiani A, Hilty M. Gut microbiota dynamics in travelers returning from India colonized with extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a longitudinal study. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019;27:72-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2018.10.012

2019
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Bernasconi O.J, Donà V, Pires J, Künzli E, Hatz C, Luzzaro F, Perreten V, Endimiani A. Deciphering the complete deletion of the mgrB locus in an unusual colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae colonizing the gut of a traveler returning from India [Letter]. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2018;51(3):529-531. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2017.09.014

2018
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Neumayr A, Stöckle M, Künzli E, Kling K, Sydow V, Labhardt N, Beck B, Blum J, Paris D.H. Fieber bei Reiserückkehrern. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;16:345-354. DOI: 10.4414/smf.2018.03240

2018
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Pires J, Künzli E, Hauser C, Tinguely R, Kasraian S, Atkinson A, Rauch A, Furrer H, Perreten V, Marschall J, Hatz C. Intestinal colonization with extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant enterobacteriaceae in different populations in Switzerland: prevalence, risk factors and molecular features [Letter]. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2018;12:17-19. DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2017.11.007

2018
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Künzli E, Juergensen D, Kling K, Jaeger V.K, DeCrom S, Steffen R, Widmer A.F, Battegay M, Hatz C, Neumayr A. Previous exposure in a high-risk area for travellers' diarrhoea within the past year is associated with a significant protective effect for travellers' diarrhoea: a prospective observational cohort study in travellers to South Asia. J Travel Med. 2017;24(5):1-6. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/tax056

2017
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Allemann Sarah. Resistente Bakterien: Wie gefährlich sind die Ferien-Souvenirs? [TV Broadcast]. Zürich: SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. Bericht: Sarah Allemann. SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Sendung Puls, 22.08.2016

2016
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Kling K, Künzli E, Blum J, Neumayr A. Acute Strongyloidiasis in a traveller returning from South East Asia. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(5):535-536. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.05.003

2016
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Künzli E, Labhardt N, Balestra G, Weisser M, Zellweger M.J, Blum J. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of toxocariasis-associated endomyocarditis with fibrosis: a case report. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(3):ofw145. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw145

2016
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Künzli E, Neumayr A, Chaney M, Blum J. Toxocariasis-associated cardiac diseases: a systematic review of the literature. Acta Trop. 2016;154:107-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.11.003

2016
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Künzli E. Antibiotic resistance and international travel: causes and consequences. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(6):595-598. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.11.010

2016
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Pires J, Künzli E, Kasraian S, Tinguely R, Furrer H, Hilty M, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Polyclonal intestinal colonization with extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant enterbacteriaceae upon traveling to India. Front Microbiol. 2016;7:1069. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01069

2016
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Künzli E, Vlot J, Laaveri T, Visser L.G, Hatz C, Kantele A. Asymptomatic carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in travelers returning from Southern Asia: trends over time. Trop Med Int Health, 2015;20(Suppl. 1):69-70. Abstracts of the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, 6-10 September 2015, Basel, Switzerland

2015
Conference Paper