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Charles D. Ericsson, Prevention and treatment of travellers’ diarrhea, Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 24, Issue suppl_1, April 2017, Page S1, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/tax018
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In the spring of 2016, a group of experts on travellers’ diarrhea and the microbiota were convened to consider how guidance for the management of travellers’ diarrhea might be impacted by emerging concerns for faecal carriage of antibiotic resistant organisms acquired during travel per se, after an episode of travellers’ diarrhea and after antibiotic treatment of travellers’ diarrhea. On the first and second days of the Diarrhea Summit, a number of people gave talks that reviewed background material, current guidelines and emerging concepts that would influence recommendations for the use of antibiotics in the treatment and prevention of travellers’ diarrhea. Those speakers then created mini-reviews on their assigned subjects and those reviews are offered to the reader in the articles that precede the final article on guidelines for the prevention and treatment of travellers’ diarrhea. A select group (the authors of the expert panel report) convened the following day and embarked on a rigorous process of establishing recommendations and grading them. All manuscripts including the consensus expert panel report underwent rigorous peer review.