[A Holiday Souvenir with Consequences - an Interdisciplinary Challenge]

A Holiday Souvenir with Consequences - an Interdisciplinary Challenge Abstract. We describe a patient with a diabetic foot and challenging infectious complications. After a hospital stay in Sri Lanka due to a soft tissue infection of the foot he was relocated to Switzerland. After proof of multiple resistant bacteria, an amputation of the forefoot with a split skin cover was performed, followed by a short resistance-adapted antibiotic treatment, with good clinical results. This case illustrates the increase of multidrug-resistant bacteria, even in Switzerland. It emphasizes the importance of infection control measures in travellers returning from countries with high prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria (especially after a hospitalisation), and the need of a close interdisciplinary collaboration in these cases to guarantee the best treatment and to limit the spreading of multidrug-resistant bacteria.