Foreign Combatants Wounded in Ukraine Colonized by Extensively Drug-Resistant Organisms: A Potential Source of Global Dissemination
This is the first study describing the epidemiology of MDROs collected from a population of foreign combatants injured in Ukraine. The findings forecast challenges to clinicians and infection prevention and control both in Ukraine and foreign healthcare systems as combatants are repatriated.
Authors
- Jason R. Smedberg
- Melissa J. Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8772-9392)
- Cole Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-6166)
- Ana Ong
- Rosslyn Maybank
- V. P. Kovalchuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3351-2390)
- Iryna Kovalenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5075-4634)
- Patrick McGann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1548-9438)
- Ting L. Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6103-1981)
- Viacheslav Kondratiuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2316-7941)
- Joshua S. Hawley-Molloy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0473-6739)
- François Lebreton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7157-5026)
- Joanna M. Kettlewell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6718-6220)
- Henry D. Dao
- Brandon J. Plaza
- Jessica Bennett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8306-3594)
- Yoon I Kwak
Institutions
- Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (DE)
- National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya (UA)
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-10-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf538
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.59