Drug-resistant ventilator associated pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

Drug-resistant ventilator associated pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

Background: There is a wide geographic and temporal variability of bacterial resistance among microbial causes of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The contribution of multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens to the VAP etiology in Saudi Arabia was never studied. We sought to examine the extent of...

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Main Authors: Hanan H Balkhy, Aiman El-Saed, Rana Maghraby, Hasan M Al-Dorzi, Raymond Khan, Asgar H Rishu, Yaseen M Arabi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
Series:Annals of Thoracic Medicine
Subjects:
Acinetobacter
antimicrobial resistance
microbiology
Saudi Arabia
ventilator-associated pneumonia
Online Access:http://www.thoracicmedicine.org/article.asp?issn=1817-1737;year=2014;volume=9;issue=2;spage=104;epage=111;aulast=Balkhy

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