Competition assays between ESBL-producing E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates collected from Lebanese elderly: An additional cost on fitness

• Главные авторы: Nourhane Hafza (Автор), Caren Challita (Автор), Iman Dandachi (Автор), Mounir Bousaab (Автор), Elias Dahdouh (Автор), Ziad Daoud (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Elsevier, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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The dissemination of Multi Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) is one of the major public health problems addressed nowadays. High fecal carriage rates of MDR Enterobacteriaceae were reported from Lebanese nursing homes. Studies have shown that the acquisition of resistance genes by bacteria might conf...