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Brief Communication

Extensively-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia in neonates: effective treatment with the combination of colistin and ampicillin/sulbactam

Despoina GkentziDepartment of Pediatrics, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, Greece; Correspondence[email protected]
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Asimina TsintoniDepartment of Pediatrics, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, Greece;
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Irini ChristopoulouDepartment of Pediatrics, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, Greece;
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Ilias MamalisDepartment of Pediatrics, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, Greece;
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Fotini PaliogianniDepartment of Microbiology, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, Greece;
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Stelios F. AssimakopoulosDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, GreeceORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-6901-3681
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Markos MarangosDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, Greece
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Gabriel DimitriouDepartment of Pediatrics, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Rio, Greece;
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Pages 103-106 | Received 24 Oct 2019, Accepted 08 Jan 2020, Published online: 29 Jan 2020

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