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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Evaluating the Prevalence and the Risk Factors of Gram-Negative Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria in Eastern Saudi Arabia

Aisha S Al Hamdan1 Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Security Forces Hospital, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Amal A Alghamdi2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5139-5020
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Ghada F Alyousif2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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Fatma A Hamza2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-5197
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Marwa M Shafey2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4596-5159
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Aisha M AlAmri3 Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9694-5807
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Abdulaziz A Sunki4 General Laboratory Division, Microbiology Unit, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
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Pages 475-490 | Published online: 17 Feb 2022

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