Skip to main content
. 2017 Jun 17;36(11):2101–2107. doi: 10.1007/s10096-017-3032-6

Table 2.

Travel destinations of patients with a Campylobacter infection, represented per patient group. In brackets, countries with high numbers of isolates). Total number of isolates = 261

Travel destination according to UN geoscheme Most frequently visited countries in the region (number of isolates) ITM, n = 142 LHUB-ULB, n = 83 National survey, n = 36 Total, n = 261
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Eastern Africa Ethiopia (12), Tanzania (5) 26 (18.3%) 3 (3.6%) 1 (2.8%) 30 (11.5%)
Middle Africa DRC1 (16) 18 (12.7%) 7 (8.4%) 0 25 (9.6%)
Northern Africa Morocco (22), Tunis (5) 5 (3.52%) 24 (28.9%) 7 (19.4%) 36 (13.8%)
Southern Africa South Africa (1) 1 (0.7%) 0 0 1 (0.4%)
Western Africa Burkina Faso (6), Cameroon (5) 20 (14.1%) 8 (9.6%) 0 28 (10.7%)
Africa total 70 (49.3%) 42 (50.6%) 8 (22.2%) 120 (46.0%)
Caribbean and Latin
America
Cuba (1) 2 (1.4%) 1 (1.2%) 0 3 (1.1%)
Central America Nicaragua (1) 1 (0.7%) 0 0 1 (0.4%)
South America Peru (9) 13 (9.2%) 2 (2.4%) 0 15 (5.7%)
Northern America USA2 (1) 0 0 1 (2.8%) 1 (0.4%)
America total 16 (11.3%) 3 (3.6%) 1 (2.8%) 20 (7.7%)
Eastern Asia China (1) 1 (0.7%) 0 0 1 (0.4%)
Southern Asia India (31), Nepal (5), Pakistan (5) 31 (21.8%) 13 (15.7%) 2 (5.6%) 46 (17.6%)
Southeastern Asia Indonesia (10) 21 (14.8%) 1 (1.2%) 3 (8.3%) 25 (9.6%)
Western Asia Turkey (7) 0 2 (2.4%) 6 (16.7%) 8 (3.1%)
Asia total 53 (37.3%) 16 (19.3%) 11 (30.6%) 80 (30.7%)
Eastern Europe Poland (3), Romania (2) 0 6 (7.2%) 2 (5.6%) 8 (3.1%)
Southern Europe Spain (8) 2 (1.4%) 9 (10.8%) 6 (16.7%) 17 (6.5%)
Western Europe France (10) 1 (0.7%) 7 (8.4%) 8 (22.2%) 16 (6.1%)
Europe total 3 (2.8%) 22 (26.5%) 16 (44.4%) 41 (15.7%)

1. DRC: Democratic Republic of the Congo

2. USA: United States of America