Increasing antibiotic resistance among isolates of Escherichia coli recovered from inpatients and outpatients in a Saudi Arabian hospital

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 748-753

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^a  

^a DHAHRAN HEALTH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; NITROFURANTOIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OUTPATIENT; SAUDI ARABIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OUTPATIENTS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 33747651569     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505336     Document Type: Article

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