UNLABELLED: In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the Provincial Government has decreed that the laboratory diagnostic examination of applicants for asylum is limited to Salmonella and Shigella. A comprehensive bacteriological and parasitological investigation of 517 applicants for asylum showed a wide pattern of intestinal pathogens. 123 person (23.79%) were infected with pathogenic or facultative pathogenic agents. Regional differences of the extent of distribution and the risks of infestation with pathogens by importation are discussed.CONCLUSION: Limitation of obligatory microbiologic examination to Salmonella and Shigella only is insufficient.
Cross-Sectional Studies Dysentery, Bacillary