Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) impacts the clinical management of many infections in clinical practice and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality. Apart from the inappropriate use of drugs in humans and animals, travellers can also serve as carriers of AMR from the destination into the host country. Travellers can become colonized by multidrug resistant organisms especially when they use antibiotics in the destination countries. This symposium will review the patterns of drug resistance in Southeast Asia and how travel may contribute to spread.

Victor Lim
Overview of AMR in Southeast Asia
OBJECTIVES:
• Describe the epidemiology of multidrug resistance in various parts of Southeast Asia.
• Review risk factors, problems in diagnosis, and challenges in clinical management.
• Discuss impact on travellers traveling to and from Southeast Asia.

Anu Kantele
Travellers' Role in Propagating AMR
OBJECTIVES:
• Describe the initial steps of colonization in the light of findings of a real-time study abroad.
• Describe the means to prevent the colonization.
• Discuss impact of travel-acquired AMR in the destination country of travellers.

Gagandeep Kang
Tracking International Spread of AMR
OBJECTIVES:
• Review detection tools that track the international spread of AMR.
• Discuss whether phylogenetic analysis is helpful.
• Review clinical applications of phylogenetic analysis.