Prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and emergence of high rectal colonization rates of blaOXA-181-positive isolates in patients admitted to two major hospital intensive care units in Kuwait

Amani H. Al Fadhli; Wafaa Y. Jamal; Vincent O. Rotimi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241971

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Prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and emergence of high rectal colonization rates of bla_OXA-181-positive isolates in patients admitted to two major hospital intensive care units in Kuwait

Amani H. Al Fadhli,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait
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Wafaa Y. Jamal ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7301-0144

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Vincent O. Rotimi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait
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Prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and emergence of high rectal colonization rates of bla_OXA-181-positive isolates in patients admitted to two major hospital intensive care units in Kuwait

Amani H. Al Fadhli,
Wafaa Y. Jamal,
Vincent O. Rotimi

Published: November 17, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241971

About the Authors

Amani H. Al Fadhli

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

Wafaa Y. Jamal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7301-0144

Vincent O. Rotimi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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