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

• M. John Albert ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: john@hsc.edu.kw

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5794-7500

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• Dieter Bulach,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Public Health Laboratory, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Wadha Alfouzan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait, Microbiology Unit, Department of Laboratories, Al Farwaniya Hospital, Sabah Al-Nasser, Kuwait

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• Hidemasa Izumiya,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Glen Carter,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Public Health Laboratory, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Khaled Alobaid,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Al Amiri Hospital, Sharq, Kuwait

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• Fatemah Alatar,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Muabarak Al Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait, and

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• Abdul Rashid Sheikh,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Al Amiri Hospital, Sharq, Kuwait

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• Laurent Poirel

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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