Weather variables as important clinical predictors of bacterial diarrhoea among international travellers.
Melissa A PenderTimothy SmithBen J BrintzPrativa PandeySanjaya K ShresthaSinn AnurasSamandra DemonsSiriporn SornsakrinLadaporn BodhidattaJames A Platts-MillsDaniel T LeungPublished in: Journal of travel medicine (2022)
We identified environmental temperature, a location-specific parameter, as an important predictor of bacterial TD, among traditional patient-specific parameters predictive of aetiology. Future work includes further validation and the development of a clinical decision-support tool to inform appropriate use of antibiotics in TD.