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Epidemiological typing of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, which causes paediatric ventilator-associated pneumonia in Egypt.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 May 2017
Mohamed Eman R, Aly Sherine A, Halby Hamada M, Ahmed Shabaan H, Zakaria Amira M, El-Asheer Osama M
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PURPOSE: Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common nosocomial pathogen that plays an important role in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). This study aimed to define the clonal relatedness of K. pneumoniae strains isolated from paediatric VAP in addition to those isolated from environmental samples. METHODOLOGY: This study included 19 clinical and 4 environmental K. pneumoniae isolates recovered...
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