StaphTrav is funded by the Universitiy of Heidelberg’s Institute of Global Health and University of Lübeck’s Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. The network is coordinated by Philipp Zanger and Dennis Nurjadi.
Primarily designed as a surveillance network, StaphTrav was initiated in 2012 in response to findings on the import of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus through nasal carriage and skin infections in travelers returning from the tropics and subtropics, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Over the last 10 years, StaphTrav’s scientific outputs have not only contributed to a better understanding of the current AMR epidemic, but also translated into an improved clinical management of SSTI in long-distance travelers and provided key knowledge for the development of infection control interventions.
Future projects of the network include the development of clinical study sites and the conduct of next-generation sequencing analyses on the existing strain collection.
Publications
Nurjadi D, Fleck R, Lindner A, Schäfer J, Gertler M, Mueller A, Lagler H, Van Genderen PJJ, Caumes E, Boutin S, Kuenzli E, Gascon J, Kantele A, Grobusch MP, Heeg K, Zanger P; StaphTrav Network (2019)
Import of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Europe through skin and soft-tissue infection in intercontinental travellers, 2011-2016.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 25:739-746. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.09.023.
Nurjadi D, Heeg K, Zanger P; Staph Trav Network (2017)
A Trial of Antibiotics for Smaller Skin Abscesses (Letter to the Editor)
The New England Journal of Medicine 28;377:e36. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1711124.
Nurjadi D, Schäfer J, Friedrich-Jänicke B, Mueller A, Neumayr A, Calvo-Cano A, Goorhuis A, Molhoek N, Lagler H, Kantele A, Van Genderen PJ, Gascon J, Grobusch MP, Caumes E, Hatz C, Fleck R, Mockenhaupt FP, Zanger P (2015)
Predominance of dfrG as determinant of trimethoprim resistance in imported Staphylococcus aureus.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 21:1095.e5-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.08.021.
Nurjadi D, Friedrich-Jänicke B, Schäfer J, Van Genderen PJ, Goorhuis A, Perignon A, Neumayr A, Mueller A, Kantele A, Schunk M, Gascon J, Stich A, Hatz C, Caumes E, Grobusch MP, Fleck R, Mockenhaupt FP, Zanger P (2015)
Skin and soft tissue infections in intercontinental travellers and the import of multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Europe.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 21:567.e1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.01.016.
Zanger P, Nurjadi D, Schleucher R, Scherbaum H, Wolz C, Kremsner PG, Schulte B (2012)
Import and spread of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus through nasal carriage and skin infections in travelers returning from the tropics and subtropics.
Clinical Infectious Diseases 54:483-92. doi: 10.1093/cid/cir822.