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Molecular Characterization and Antibiogram of Acinetobacter Baumannii Clinical Isolates Recovered From the Patients With Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
2022-06-09
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A 2-year prospective study carried out on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) patients in the intensive care unit at King Khalid hospital, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), revealed a high prevalence of extremely drug-resistant (XDR) Acinetobacter baumannii. About a 9% increase in the incidence rate of A. baumannii has occurred in the VAP patients between 2019 and 2020 (21.4% to 30.7%). In 2019 the isolates w...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3bc3fa4a-0ca2-52b9-97d0-4eae67c29b62
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202206.0141.v1
