Poverty, Genocide, and Superbugs: A Carbapenem-Resistant Wound Infection in Rural Guatemala

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 Sep;99(3):561-562. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0260.

Author

David Flood^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
² Wuqu' Kawoq, Santiago Sacatepéquez, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala.

No abstract available

Publication types

Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

Bacteria / drug effects*
Carbapenems / pharmacology*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / complications
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / microbiology
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Foot / microbiology
Foot / pathology
Genocide*
Guatemala
Humans
Politics
Poverty*
Rural Population*
Wound Infection / drug therapy
Wound Infection / microbiology*

Substances

Carbapenems