High Burden of Resistant Gram Negative Pathogens Causing Device-associated Healthcare Infections in a Tertiary Care Setting in Saudi Arabia, 2008-2016

High Burden of Resistant Gram Negative Pathogens Causing Device-associated Healthcare Infections in a Tertiary Care Setting in Saudi Arabia, 2008-2016

Objectives: There is local and regional deficiency in the data examining the contribution of resistant pathogens to device-associated healthcare-associated infections (DA-HAIs). The objective was to examine such data in a multi-hospital system in Saudi Arabia in comparison with the US National Healt...

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Main Authors: Hanan H. Balkhy, Aiman El-Saed, Majid M. Alshamrani, Asim Alsaedi, Wafa Al Nasser, Ayman El Gammal, Sameera M. Aljohany, Yassen Arabi, Saad Alqahtani, Henry Baffoe Bonnie, Adel Alothman, Saad A. Almohrij
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Subjects:
Antimicrobial resistance
Multidrug resistance
Device-Associated infections
Healthcare-Associated infections
Surveillance
Saudi Arabia
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213716520301880

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