Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative isolates in an adult intensive care unit at a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia.

作者: Sameera M Al Johani , Javed Akhter , Hanan Balkhy , Ayman El-Saed , Mousaad Younan

DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.67073

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摘要: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patients in the ICU have encountered an increasing emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. We examined patterns antimicrobial susceptibility gram-ne...

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