Molecular characterization of Carbapenem resistant Escherichia coli recovered from a tertiary hospital in Lebanon

• Christel Dagher,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7464-6408

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• Tamara Salloum,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

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• Sahar Alousi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7388-6138

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• Harout Arabaghian,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0329-9178

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• George F. Araj,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Sima Tokajian

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

  * E-mail: stokajian@lau.edu.lb

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3653-8940

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