Highly drug-resistant pathogens implicated in burn-associated bacteremia in an Iraqi burn care unit.

Highly drug-resistant pathogens implicated in burn-associated bacteremia in an Iraqi burn care unit.

OBJECTIVE: In low- and middle-income countries, bloodstream infections are an important cause of mortality in patients with burns. Increasingly implicated in burn-associated infections are highly drug-resistant pathogens with limited treatment options. We describe the epidemiology of bloodstream inf...

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Main Authors: Jean-Baptiste Ronat, Jabar Kakol, Marwan N Khoury, Mathilde Berthelot, Oliver Yun, Vincent Brown, Richard A Murphy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4128596?pdf=render

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