Non-typhoidal Salmonella blood stream infection in Kuwait: Clinical and microbiological characteristics.

• Main Authors: M John Albert (Author), Dieter Bulach (Author), Wadha Alfouzan (Author), Hidemasa Izumiya (Author), Glen Carter (Author), Khaled Alobaid (Author), Fatemah Alatar (Author), Abdul Rashid Sheikh (Author), Laurent Poirel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) bacteremia is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is considered to be an emerging and neglected tropical disease in Africa. We studied this in two tertiary hospitals-Al Farwaniya and Al Amiri-in Kuwait, a subtropical country, from April 2013-Ma...