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...
Main Authors: | Hanan H Balkhy, Aiman El-Saed, Rana Maghraby, Hasan M Al-Dorzi, Raymond Khan, Asgar H Rishu, Yaseen M Arabi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2014-01-01
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Series: | Annals of Thoracic Medicine |
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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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