Antibiotic susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Saudi Arabia: a national antimicrobial resistance surveillance study

• Main Authors: Abrar K. Thabit (Author), Ammar M. Alghamdi (Author), Musaab Y. Miaji (Author), Feras S. Alharbi (Author), Anas F. Jawah (Author), Fatimah Alturki (Author), Nehal Hosin (Author), Mohammed Bazuqamah (Author), Masaad Saeed Almutairi (Author), Hamad Alhamed (Author), Alaa Elhendawy (Author), Dalya Atallah (Author), Abdulaziz A. Humadi (Author), Khalid A. Alfifi (Author), Khadija Alfadel (Author), Khalid Eljaaly (Author), Mahmoud A. Elfaky (Author), the Saudi AntiMicrobial Surveillance (SAMS) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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BackgroundPseudomonas aeruginosa is a common pathogen causing healthcare-associated infections. Most surveillance studies from Saudi Arabia that assessed the resistance by P. aeruginosa were conducted in single centers or did not use broth microdilution (BMD), the gold standard test. This is the fir...