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Prevalence and risk factors of early fecal carriage of Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus spp and their antimicrobial resistant patterns among healthy neonates born in a hospital setting in central Saudi Arabia

Talat A. El-Kersh, Mohammed A. Marie, Yazeed A. Al-Sheikh, Mohamed H. Al-Agamy and Ahmad A. Al-Bloushy
Saudi Medical Journal March 2016, 37 (3) 280-287; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.3.13871

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vol. 37 no. 3 280-287
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.3.13871
PubMed 
26905350
Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 25, 2015
  • Accepted January 14, 2016
  • Published online March 1, 2016.
Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Talat A. El-Kersh, MSc, PhD,
  2. Mohammed A. Marie, MSc, PhD,
  3. Yazeed A. Al-Sheikh, MSc, PhD,
  4. Mohamed H. Al-Agamy, MSc, PhD and
  5. Ahmad A. Al-Bloushy, BSc, MSc⇑
  1. From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (El-Kersh, Marie, Al-Sheikh), the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (Al-Agamy), College of Applied Medical Sciences, and the Department of Pharmaceutics (Al Bloushy), Microbiology Division, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Mr. Ahmad A. Al Bloushy, Al Bukayriyah General Hospital, Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: prince_a0996{at}hotmail.com
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